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CRJ 613 Week 5 Assignment Shanice Ford CRJ 613 Comparative Criminal Justice Systems Instructor Jonathan Sperling 1/29/2023
The prison system can be found all around the world. Each country has its own system and how they handle prison. The same issue can be found such as overcrowding conditions for prisoners. Also, dangerous environment for the prisoner and the corrections officers. In this paper I will compare the prisons in Germany, Brazil, and India, as well as their different cultural perspectives. The Germany prison system rehabilitative focus. They believe in treating inmates with respect and dignity. The Stammheim Prison is a supermax prison built in 1959. Today it serves as a holding facility for inmates. Germany has no state, federal, or county facilities. Each state is afforded its own prison and laws. Stammheim has three assistant managers and one institutional manager, and they have studied law and served as judges. While there are a few life sentences and some inmates serving sentences as long as 15 years, many prisoners in Germany are released after four to five years, with half being released after one year, two thirds after two years, and the rest in two to three years. This is a significant departure from the prison system in the United States (York, 2020). Officers do not carry pepper spray and are well trained. They are also taught the consequences of abusing inmates and there are no officer inmates’ situations. A German correctional officer must complete two years of training, which includes one month of in-prison training under an experienced officer, followed by three months of classroom instruction covering law, psychology, communication skills, stress management, self-defense, shooting, and history. After returning from school, the trainee will be able to perform all duties of a full-fledged officer but will remain in trainee status for the following twelve months (York, 2020). The use of solitary confinement is rare and if use on the average of 3-5 days. The objection is re - socialization not de-socialization.
The Brazil prison is enormous and incarcerates more people in the any other country in Latin America. Human rights violations occur daily in Brazil's prison system, impacting thousands of people. While there are many different and complex reasons for this, some key elements can be recognized, chief among them being the belief that those who suffer abuse—prisoners and, by extension, criminals—are not deserving of public sympathy (HR : Behind Bars in Brazil (Summary), n.d.). The prisons in Brazil suffer from overcrowding, lack of medical care, and abuse is common in the prison system. Potentially fatal illnesses like HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis have become epidemics among Brazilian prisoners; given that prisoners have many ties to the outside world and will eventually return there, the unchecked spread of disease among inmates poses a serious risk to public health. The lack of health care is another matter of great concern (HRW: Behind Bars in Brazil (Summary), n.d.-b). The prison system in Brazil has lot of work to be done. The prison in India also faces extremely overcrowding with seeing an increase of inmates. There are three levels in the prison system Taluka level, District Level, and Central Level. The Taluka level is the small level and is run by the state and is extremely organized. In states without central jails and in union territories without central jails, district level jails are regarded as the primary jails (Garg, 2021). Central Level is used for prisoner who is sentence to life in prison, death penalty or is due to be in prison for a long time. What sets Germany apart from the other prison is the approach of rehabilitation. Individuals are not often incarcerated for long periods of time. They also believe in human dignity and train their correctional officers to have the same belief. In Brazil and India, they have the issues of overcrowding, lack of resources and medical resources. They also have issues of violent acts of inmates on inmates and corrections officers.
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