2016 Most Violent Prison
Correctional facilities have the responsibility of holding convicts and ensuring that their character has transformed by the time they leave the correctional facilities. However, these correctional facilities often face several challenges in undertaking this responsibility. One of the major challenges in correctional facilities is controlling the violence of inmates both against each other and against police officers. The case study of 2016 Most violent prison demonstrates how prisons cope and manage the problem of inmate violence.
Sergeant Baldwin and his staff use various techniques to maintain order and prevent violence in correctional facilities. First, they use lockups for inmates when they turn violent, which ensures that they cannot interact because they are in their cells. Secondly, the officers get the inmates out in the open air in small groups ensuring that they can manage any violence when it erupts within the facilities. Thirdly, the officers are equipped with guns and may use this force when the violence gets out of hand.
The methods are effective in light of the challenges that the officers face in maintaining order and preventing violence within prisons. For instance, the lockup is useful in ensuring that violent inmates do not interact with each other as well as other inmates (Delisi et al., 2010)....
These interactions could potentially result in violence. Therefore, the lockups are effective in preventing this interaction and consequently preventing violence. Secondly, controlling the number of inmates who get into the open air space is equally effective in controlling violence. Therefore, the officers equipped in handling any possible violence when the inmates are interacting because they are in small and manageable groups. Lastly, the use of firearms may be effective in scaring the inmates from violence.
Various ethical issues arise from the methods adopted at the facility in controlling violence within these cells. For instance, the use of lethal force in controlling violence is not ethical. There is no ethical justification for injuring inmates to prevent them from being injured by other inmates (Brewer-Smyth et al., 2014). However, controlling the number of inmates who go to the open air area is ethical since it gives the inmates an opportunity to get out of their confinement in a way that prevents them from being injured through violence.
Terry Dibble is one of the inmates at the Statesville prison. He ended up in prison after killing one person using a gunshot. He was then transferred from a Downstate Prison to Satterfield prison after fighting with another inmate (Life Mystery, 2017). However, he has acquired a new…
