CRM 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Due Process, Total Institution, Work Release
10 Apr 2018
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Legal rights in prison: legal rights segregation and prison transfers, due process. Role of correctional services: administer the sentence imposed by courts, protect the public, encourage offenders to alter behaviour and acquire pro-social skills. Encourage offenders to participate in rehabilitation programs such as education, works skills, etc. They encourage by altering release plans and degree of custody: provide safe and healthy environment conducive to reform. Challenges to treatment in the framework of the prison: prison as a total institution" - a place where people work, recreate, eat, sleep together all of the time. A very strict regime of rules and lifestyle (what you eat, when you shower, etc. ) Physically (inmates are on the outskirts of society) Barriers around the prison (physically, socially, and culturally set apart. Inmates find it very hard to learn skills and be rehabilitated: marginalization of inmates - prisoner"s were often already marginalized before coming into prison (many don"t have high school education,
