West County Detention Jail Facility

It served as the county jail for almost a century, and housed criminals convicted for crimes or awaiting trails.

Being built in 1979, Wabash county jail has been through a lot. Being 36 years old the jail has encountered some problems. The Wabash Jail has had some flooding problems which leaked down to the basement ceilings. They do not have automatic doors and lights

Kyle Rosch is an intake officer for Nottoway correctional facility but before ended up at Nottoway he was a middle school teacher, was on the Greenwood execution team, worked at Buckner federal medical center (which he hated). As an intake officer he determines which prison incoming inmates belong to and where they will remain until the end of their sentence. He had completed a total of 1800 last year between him and another intake officer. He had talked about how he classifies inmates, the different types of segregation, his past jobs, and his life experiences

Frederick County Adult Detention Center is a county jail run by the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office. This jail was opened in 1984 and now is responsible for holding those accused and sentenced to less than 18 months in jail. The detention center consists of those accused or convicted of various crimes ranging from a driving with a suspended license to assault and murder. The Frederick County Corrections is broken up into four divisions: administrative, security, community, and inmate services.

STEUBEN COUNTY (WENY) - For the second year in a row the Steuben County Jail is taking advantage of its courtyard by turning it into a giant garden. It's part of the county's inmate garden program. "It's therapeutic. It's very relaxing and it's a learning experience and helps you gain knowledge about planting and what you can and can't plant around here in the soils," explains Steuben County Jail inmate, Jeffrey Duell.

Wabash County jail was built in 1979, making it older than Miami County jail by 30 years. This facility holds 72 inmates at full capacity while Miami County holds 240, making it significantly smaller in size. Despite the differences, there are some similarities involving housing, visitation, and environmental conditions.

In addition, safety and security are of major concern to this group. They expect prisoners to serve their time and not have the opportunity to escape their facilities. Criminals, particularly those in high-security prisons, are dangerous and unpredictable and escaping prisons and returning to society is a threat to the safety of society at

Jail booking personnel do not know from day to day the types of inmates who will be brought to the jail by local, federal, and state law enforcement agencies, be other correctional institutions such as juvenile centers, local jails, out of state jails, or federal or state prisons. The jail booking desk is the main entry point. There are miscellaneous types of offenders who also pass through the booking desk such as the witness who is being held in protective custody. Another type of offender is an inmate from the jail system who violates a rule of work release or home incarceration program, or a criminal statute that dictates that inmate’s removal from such programs pending further criminal action. Jails may hold inmates who are serious security

All County jails are designed to detain inmates. Wabash County Jail was built in 1979 and Miami County Jail was built in 2009, both jails have similarities and both have their differences; thing such as cell blocks, how jails control their inmates, and how jails allow family and friends to visit. These things are very important to the jailing process.

Correctional officers do not supervise has heavily in large or medium jails. Offenders can be placed where every there is an available space open. Not having the proper inmate classification can result in a high-risk of litigation. In a medium and large facility, where it becomes overcrowded at times and inmates need a cell to be placed in, the staff would use their best judgment on which cell will be best for the inmate. Inmates are classified by their appearance, history of violence in and outside the jail, how long they are being held in jail,

of crimes. The purpose of this paper is to discuss and outline the differences among jails

622). In this correctional institution, the nurses ensure that the prescribed medications are taken at the clinic to ensure that inmates don’t illegally sell the prescribed medication to other inmates. In addition, the nurses stores the medical supplies that can be a safety threat to the environment in a safe area, so the inmates has no access to them. In addition, Nies and McEwen (2015) has stated that “the nurses must maintain an escape route to use if a situation of personal violence is imminent” (p. 622). When the nurses are providing care to the inmates, the door were never closed to ensure that there is an escape route. Also, there is a correctional officer sitting right at the entrance to maintain security within the health care clinic and oversee the safety of the health care providers and

The overcrowding prison reflects that the inmate population has grown much faster than the funding for prisons, which is controlled at the state level. In most cases, state funding has not come close to keeping up with the rise in the prison population, leading to decrepit prison infrastructure that is wholly inadequate for housing such large numbers of inmates. Without capacity to house inmates properly, some prisons have resorted to having prisoners sleep in gymnasiums, and many have overcrowded cells to accommodate the extra bodies. This overcrowding has led to deteriorating cleanliness of prisons and declining safety. Today, non-violent prisoners are forced to live in close quarters with violent ones, and the results are predictable.

Learning about the county jail was an interesting experience. Amongst all the sight seeking, I realized there was several departments within the jail itself. The different departments are called the booking department, incident reports, and finger printing department.

One major problem of prison overcrowding is the effect it has on prison organizational stability. The more prisoners and people put in jail have made it harder for prison guards and staff to monitor and control them. The entire prison system must make enormous changes in order to accommodate for the number of inmates versus the number of prison guards (O’Leary). This often results in a misclassification of offenders. Many who come through the system are classified based on the amount of space available instead of on the security level and programs that would be most suitable for them (Howard). “It is not uncommon to find inmates, classified as medium security, incarcerated in maximum security institutions, while other inmates are in medium security who were previously considered candidates for maximum security” (Howard). Misclassifying offenders often leads to “slow progress through the corrections system as well as a slow exit” (Howard). This in turn only prolongs and increases the overcrowding problem (Howard). The corrections programs should be reformed to meet the needs of the inmates rather than the inmates having to adjust to meet the requirements of the system. Offenders need to be on specific rehabilitation programs that are customized to fit their needs, such as alcohol and drug abuse programs and so forth.