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Managing Prisons-Best Practices and Policy Reform

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Managing Prisons-Best Practices and Policy Reform

I as the assistant warden due to the prisoners that we have just received from a closing
facility due to its corruption. We are a medium facility that houses prisoners which have
committed crimes like theft, fraud, drug sales and manufacturing, arson, and aggravated assault.
The prisoners that were transferred were convicted of more violent crimes which led to the
current prisoners feeling out of place and crowded due to there not being enough space to take
on the new prisoners comfortably. The issues that we are experiencing now because of the
change there is an increase in mental health issues, suicides are higher and now there is a spread
of infectious disease.
I will get with Warden and share with him the idea for the problem that we are currently
experiencing with the arrival of the new prisoners. First, they will need to be separated from the
existing prisoners. The next thing is that I have is that we may need to set up a new structure of
housing for all of the prisoners that will allow for us to be able to separate them according to
their crimes.
Before we could implement any type of changes that we are working on to improve the
conditions of the prison. We need to look at what would be right, legal or the right thing to do in
other words what is ethical (Stohr & Walsh, 2017). Although the new prisoners are considered
more violent than the prisoners that were already there in prison, they still need to be treated the
right way. I think that the issues that are currently going on there would have to do with the
overcrowding that is has happened. If the plan is done and guided by deontological framework

there will be no concern for consequences (Stohr & Walsh, 2017). Kant a philosopher who
believed that people needed something to guide them when it comes to making decisions (Stohr
& Walsh, 2017). Now that there is also an investigative journal that is involved with writing an
article about the current conditions of the prison, we still have to inform her that we have a
utilitarianism obligation to make the decision that is for the greater for all prisoners involved.
Overcrowding is a cause for concern in prisons because of overcrowding not only are the
prisoners suffering but the moral of the staff is low. The security and control of the prison
becomes difficult and probably along with that you may have over worked staff which places
them under tremendous stress. The next problem is the risk of increase health and wellbeing
problems amongst the inmates as well as pose a risk to the staff. Due to overcrowding the norm
problems of the prison are increased because of the increase of the population.
The long-term solution is first those that have committed low level crimes and instead of
just sentencing them to prison time the judge should have the option to use probation for those
offenders and also community service for an alternative and if they do not follow the rules of the
said probation stipulation and community service then being incarcerated is the other option. The
second option is for those that are already incarcerated, and those prisoners are no longer a risk or
danger when released to society should have the option to be released early and placed on parole
for the remaining of their sentence. There are many solutions that could be put in place to rectify
the problems of overcrowding.

References

Stohr, M. K., & Walsh, A. (2017). Corrections: The essentials (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA:
SAGE Publications, Inc.
Centre for Justice and Reconciliation. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://restorativejustice.org/