Corrections includes all government agencies, facilities, programs, procedures, personnel, and techniques concerned with the intake, custody, confinement, supervision, treatment and predisposition, investigation of alleged adjudicated adult offenders, youthful offenders, delinquents, and status offenders. Once an offender has been sentenced the corrections stage begins. Some offenders are sentenced to prison. Once in the correctional system, they are classified according to local procedures and are assigned to confinement facilities and treatment programs.

A jail is a confinement facility administrated by an agency of local government, typi

state, or other authorities because of overcrowding in their own facilities.

cally a law enforcement agency, intended for adults but sometimes also containing juveniles, which holds persons detaining pending adjudication and or persons committed on sentences of a year or less.

Many inmates planed to escape. They stayed on the side tending to their possessions and their little groups. Yard society was harsh toward perceived enemies: ”three of thirty two inmates to die would be killed by inmates after being marked by the leadership” (Kimball,1989).

Maximum-custody prison tend to be massive old prisons with large inmate populations. Such institutions provide tight security which is characterized by high fences, thick walls, secure cells, gun towers, and armed prisons guards. Maximum-custody prisons tend to locate cells and other inmate living facilities at the center of the institution and place a variety of barriers about the living area and the institution’s outer perimeter.

According to Carter Wilkins (1977) probation officers are essentially caseworkers and belong to people- helping services. They also have peace officer functions and often find themselves faced with philosophical conflicts. The role of probation officers require specific training and skill. (Wilkins1977)

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