How are correctional agencies organized?
I’m not understanding the question. The Federal Bureau of Prisons, which is within the Department of Justice, operates 114 institutions and 28 community corrections offices. It oversees roughly 193,000 offenders convicted of federal offenses. Included in these facilities are detention centers, which, similar to jails, hold those awaiting trial. The U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services System is responsible for assisting the federal courts with pretrial practices and supervising federal probationers. The Federal Parole Commission oversees federal parolees. Prisons are state-run correctional facilities administered by the executive branch of each state government. They hold inmates serving sentences of one year or more. Jails hold detainees awaiting trial and those sentenced to incarceration for less than a year. The organization of probation and parole, both forms of community corrections in which offenders are supervised in the community.
Do you believe that a centralized approach to corrections (e.g., in the form of one unified correctional system) would be more effective than our fragmented approach? Decisions are made at the top and communicated to lower-level managers for implementation would be more effective.
Discuss the difficulties of being incarcerated? Some difficulties of being incarcerated is Prison rape ; gang violence; overcrowded, medical needs not being met, labeling, Risk of getting AIDS, HIV.