AGENDA Finish up with Chapter 11 Lecture on prisons and jails Slide 22

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Solitary Confinement The isolation of a prisoner in a separate cell as a punishment.

Current News on Prison and Jail incidents Joshua tree, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Jail SuperMax Prison in Colorado

Chapter 11 Prisons and jails

Funny Prison Pictures

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Prisons

Medical costs of some prisoners Steven Martinez Quadriplegic prisoner who was knifed during an attack while incarcerated. He is serving a 157 year sentence for numerous felonies that he committed during the violent rape of woman in 1998 Steven Martinez was convicted of several counts of violent rape in 1998 after he drove his car over a woman, assaulted her, kidnapped her and then raped her.

Medical costs cont’d Medical parole requested The medical care he needs have been costing the state $625,000.00 per year His stabbing attack was 10 years ago

A California appeals court has granted the release of a quadriplegic rapist who was considered an excessive cost to the state. https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Quadriplegic-Rapist-to-be- Released-from-Prison-179722421.html

Brief History of Prisons Relatively a new development in punishment for breaking the law A little over 200 years Prior to the development of prison, early punishments were often cruel and torturous

Brief History of Prisons Cont’d Early punishments Flogging Mutilation Torture Branding Public Humiliation Workhouses

Flogging

Mutilation

Torture

Branding

Public Humiliation

Workhouses An early form of imprisonment whose purpose was to instill habits of industry in the idle In describing a person or machine, idle means the act of nothing or no work (for example: "John Smith is an idle person")

Workhouses

Workhouses cont’d

Workhouses cont’d Workhouses, which vaguely resembled today’s prisons, developed relatively late in history of Western Europe Primarily used to house debtors, the unemployed and vagrants Vagrants, a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.

Vagrant

Prisons Today There are approximately 1,720 state prisons and 119 federal prisons in operation across the country today

2.3 million people are confined nationwide 1.3 are in state prions Over 7000 are for violent crimes

Overcrowding

Overcrowding cont’d What can be done?

California’s PSR Program Public Safety Realignment California's Public Safety Realignment initiative represents an attempt by the state of California to reduce its state prison population by shifting much of that population to county jails. It was the result of a court-order in response to shortfalls in medical and mental health care for the state's prison population

Assembly Bill 109 AB 109, or Assembly Bill 109, was passed by voters in California in 2011. It is often referred to simply as “realignment.” The goal of AB 109 is to divert people who are convicted of felonies that are not defined as serious to local country jails. https://www.ppic.org/publication/public-safety-realignment-impacts-so-far/

1. Low-level offenders convicted of felonies serve their sentence in county jails rather than state prisons 2. Low-level felony offenders released from state prison or county jails on parole are supervised on the county level 3. Low-level felony offenders who violate their parole, may be returned to county jails not state prisons Low-level offenders released from prison are placed on Post Release Community Supervision (PRCS) Supervision administered at the county level

Prison Classification During the process when you enter a prison you are classified

California State Prisons https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/facilities_locator/

California State Prisons cont’d https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/

Federal Prisons Supermax Colorado, location of the SuperMax Prison https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/25/us/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-supermax-prison/index.html

Leavenworth Federal Prison http://www.visitleavenworthks.com/us-penitentiary-and-usdb.html

Jails Jails are locally operated short-term confinement facilities originally built to hold suspects following arrest and pending trial

Private Prisons