PRISONS TODAY AND

TOMORROW 3 RD

EDITION
BLACKBURN, FOWLER, POLLOCK
CHAPTER 9, JAILS
JAILS VERSUS PRISONS

• Jails
• Short term confinements (usually less than 1 year)
• Typically house males and females
• Elected officials typically oversee
• Program availability
• Usually located in central business districts
FUNCTIONS OF JAILS

• Hold offenders who are

• Pending arraignment
• Awaiting trial, conviction and sentencing
• Probation, parole and bond violators/absconders
• Mentally ill, awaiting transfer to the appropriate facility
• Pending military trial (protection, contempt, witness)
• House for other jurisdictions due to overcrowding or warrants
• Serving their short term sentence
 “JAIL” TERMS TO KNOW

• Pretrial detainee
• 62% of those held in jails
• What do we know about offenders who don’t make bond?

• Release on recognizance (ROR)

• Misdemeanants
• Felons
• Juveniles
• Fee System
• Rabble
ARCHITECTURE—BE FAMILIAR WITH
THE BELOW

• Traditional Jails
• Linear Designs
• officers walk the runs to monitor offenders

• Second Generation Jails

• Remote Designs
• cells are situated around a central day room

• New Generation Jails

• Functional Living Units
• all sleeping, food, hygiene, recreational are in a self-contained area
JAIL OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION

• Issues
• Overcrowding
• Staffing
• Public support

• Jail administrator
• Qualifications?
• Retention of jail staff
• Compensation
• Environment

• Jail Standards –ACA—What role did these standards play in bringing about needed change in US Jails?
VARIOUS POPULATIONS

• Special Needs
• Mentally Ill
• Alcoholics
• Drug Addicts
• Sex Offenders
• Suicidal
JAIL SOCIALIZATION AND SUBCULTURES

• Learning the system

• Assumption of roles
• Jail time is dead time…..what does this mean?
• How can jail be more productive
• Development of inmate work habits and skills
• Generation of revenues or reduction of costs for the country
• Reduction of inmate idleness
• Satisfaction of Community Needs
•After reviewing the information
related to jails, what would you
identify as the largest challenge
facing the system?