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Running Head: The Design Of Prisons In The US
The Design Of Prisons In The US
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Running Head: The Design Of Prisons In The US
The Design Of Prisons In The US
The design is a plan that is drawn to act as a blueprint of the actual object to be developed whereas
a prison is a facility or institution set aside by the government where citizens that have broken the
law are kept forcefully for correction purposes. In prison, the prisoners are watched over by the
security guards who have several weapons at there disposal to ensure that no prisoners escape. The
design of prisons in the US has evolved with time as technology, and more information is gathered
thus leading to the development of better prisons with a higher security advantage and also friendly
to the prisoners.
When someone breaks the law, they are first taken to court and given a chance to defend themselves
against the evidence gathered from the court before the judge or the magistrate passing the
judgment to the affected person. The correction facilities are divided into the community-based,
jails which are managed by the federal government and then prisons. After the decision is passed
according to the law, one can be sentenced to the prisons, local jails or community based depending
on the strength of their crimes. Your criminal record plays a better part that can influence your
sentence from the judge if you are to be taken to prison or the others.
The US prison is designed in such a way that the offenders under age that have committed crimes
are sentenced to the juvenile whereas the adult or mature citizens with national identification cards
are convicted to the adult prison. The Federal Bureau of Prisons which is responsible for taking in
custody all the law violators has divided the prisons in terms of the security which includ e: the high
security where the walls surrounding the prison is reinforced, the medium security which contains
double fenced walls with electronic detection systems to help curb prisoners who try to escape,
they mainly comprises cell housing. The low-security prisons, mostly dormitories or cubical with
Running Head: The Design Of Prisons In The US
double fenced perimeter walls, the minimum security prisons have small staffs and may sometimes
have perimeter walls or completely no walls. This is mainly for those people with petty crimes and
thus given a chance to change.
Prisons contain people of different kinds, problems, and issues. Thus some of the prisoners
suffering from various diseases such HIV may hurt both psychologically and physically; thus this
might cause more harm than help to some of the prisoners. This led to the introduction the...