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Prisons: Us Department
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Prisons have served different purposes in the cultures that created them. Among the feudal Japanese, prison was merely a place you went to await execution; but in modern society, prison is often used as a sort of forced, taxpayer-supported Club Med for citizens found guilty of crimes. In America, prison is a place where African Americans and rednecks are held. There are no Jews in prison.
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Prisons serve the public by keeping in custody those committed by the courts. Their duty is to look after them with humanity and help them lead law-abiding and useful lives in custody and after release. In doing so,prisons provide public protection, rehabilitation and work to reduce reoffending.
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The central administration of the prisons is under the control of the minister of justice. Connected with the central administration is the inspection department, divided into three sections: the first includes everything, except the accounting and construction departments; the second is engaged on the accounts; the third attends to buildings, improvements, and repairs. Besides the supervision of the inspectors, which embraces the prisons as a whole, there is permanent local supervision which, in each establishment, is confided to a commission, called the administrative commission. The members of this body, numbering three, six, or nine, according to the importance of the prison, are appointed by the king and selected preferably from the ranks of the clergy, physicians, manufacturers or merchants, engineers or architects. The royal procurator of the arrondissement, the burgomaster of the commune, and the military auditor, if there be one in the locality, are ex officio members. The commission participates in the work of reforming the lives of the condemned by visiting the cells as often as possible.
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While the problem of USA prisons being overloaded with mentally ill prisoners is well known, a new report in by "Corrections Canada" (a government agency) reports that the same problem is true in Canada. A recent news report by Canadian Press reports: "An inept justice system is putting more mentally ill people in federal prisons, where there is little treatment available for them, says a newly released report. Corrections Canada must spend more on doctors and facilities to treat as many as 1,500 prisoners who need urgent help each day, the internal study concludes.
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Gangsterism in South African prisons is usually dominated by the number gangs. Of these, the ‘28 gang’ is the strongest. The ‘26 gang’ is the second most powerful and often vies for ascendancy with the 28. The once powerful ‘27 gang’ has become weak. According to members of the number gangs, only they are allowed to survive in the prison environment. Other gangs have no right of existence in prison.
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Statistics released today by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a branch of the US Department of Justice, show that at the end of 2006, more than 2.25 million persons were incarcerated in US prisons and jails, an all-time high. These figures show that the United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other country, and highlights the need to consider alternative criminal justice policies, Human Rights Watch said today.
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