Prison Environment

Prison Environment

A prison environment is a place where inmates are deprived of a range of personal freedoms and physically confined. The prison environment influences the institutional management and the custody by growing population and the gangs within the prison. Overcrowding aggravates the natural conflicts that rely within in the prison walls which then escalate violence. When working with criminals it can cause corruption to occur with the inmates within the institution, allowing weapons and drugs into the facility can degrade the performance. The internal environment of the prisons primary influences towards management and custody include the following: prison staff culture, social culture, and the prisons physical environment. The external environment interacts with the internal environment that influences management and custody in the following: religious interventions inside the prison, rehabilitation advocates, educational, civil service department, unions, and employee organizations. The prison environment changes can be done in a rational and economic view, which the material rewards controls are provided in the direction people are in need of. Some of the secure custody methods include counting inmates to know their whereabouts, control of contraband, shakedowns of their area and having them on lockdown, having a double gate to control the traffic into the prison, and of the inmate’s clothes to have a full body cavity search. The prison environment affects secure custody in so many different ways. Secure custody can improve by hiring more guards who are capable of handling the job and are trained to do their job; prisons are in need of guards so they will hire under qualified candidates. Also, they can make sure they keep the gangs that have problems with each other away from each other so crimes do not happen. They should have different times for recreational activities to prevent violence and riots.

References

1. Foster, B. (2006)....