CJA 454 Week 4 Assignment 2

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Case Study: Out-of-Town Brown and the Besieged Probation Supervisor

 

Write a 1,750- to 2,100-word paper that answers the Ch. 9 Out-of-Town Brown and the Besieged Probation Supervisor case study questions.

Include a policy draft concerning media relations for the Collier County Probation Department.

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Part 4 Corrections

Chapter 9 Corrections Organization and Operation

I. As Bad as It Can Get

You are the deputy warden for operations in a comparatively small (500 inmates) maximum-security prison for adults. As is typical, you oversee correctional security, unit management, the inmate disciplinary committee, and recreation. One Wednesday at about 2:00 A.M., an inmate who is a minority group member with a history of mental health problems and violent behavior begins destroying his cell and injures himself by ramming into the walls. The supervisor in charge collects a group of four correctional officers with the intention of removing the inmate from his cell and isolating, medicating, and checking him for injuries. The group of four—all fairly new on the job, untrained in cell extraction or self-defense, and with no specialized extraction equipment—prepares to enter the cell. When the officers open the cell door, the inmate charges them, knocking two of them down. They finally wrestle the inmate to the floor, although he is still struggling. One officer attempts to subdue him by wrapping his arm around the inmate’s neck, pressing on his carotid artery. Finally, the inmate quiets down and is restrained and removed to another, larger cell. After 15 minutes, however, the inmate has failed to regain consciousness. A medical staff person rushes to the cell, sees the inmate in an unconscious state, and has him taken to a local hospital. After the inmate has remained comatose for 2 months and has been classified as brain dead, the family decides to remove the life-support system that has sustained him.

Questions for Discussion

1.	What, if any, inmate rights are involved in this case?

 

2.	Which, if any, of the inmate’s rights were violated?

 

3.	To what extent does the prison system’s central office become involved? What kinds of policies need to be developed to cover similar occurrences in the future?

 

4.	As deputy warden, what disciplinary action would you consider against the officers? Did the officers intend to harm the inmate?

 

5.	What needs and problems require new policies? Facilities for mentally ill inmates? Officer training? Equipment?

II. When Politics Trumps Policy

For 2 years, you have been director of a prison system for adults in a medium-sized state. As a result of revenue shortfalls for several years, it has been a constant struggle to keep a full labor force in your state’s 10 prisons and to lure professional staff members to work and live in the more rural areas where they are located. During the past 6 months, however, you have managed to assemble a fine staff of wardens and other subordinates in the prisons and have implemented a number of policies that provide for educational, vocational, and treatment opportunities, which have been gaining national attention for their effectiveness. Recidivism has been reduced to 30 percent, and your policies are beginning to be accepted by staff and citizens alike. Running a “Take Back the Streets” anticrime campaign, a politically inexperienced person (formerly a popular college quarterback playing at a state university) was recently elected governor. The new governor has just sent you a letter stating in effect that your institution is not the “Ritz” and demanding that all “frivolous, nambypamby programs teaching the ABCs and where cons learn how to hammer nails” cease immediately. He asks for your written response, a plan for tightening security, and the implementation of tougher inmate programs within 1 month.

Questions for Discussion

1.	How would you respond? Would you just capitulate and end some or all of these programs? Explain your answer.

 

2.	Is there any room to negotiate with the governor? As a trade-off, would you offer to put in place some programs that are known to be tough on inmates? If so, what kind?

 

3.	Before dismantling your policies and programs, would you attempt to see how much internal and external support you have for them? If yes, whom would you contact and how?

 

4.	How might you go about demonstrating how successful your policies have been?