Rikers Island Correctional Facility

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Correctional facilities in the United States represent the highest number of incarceration units in the world. Jails confine offenders for a short period while prisons are for the long term inmates who may have committed serious offenses. All these facilities though cited for correctional purposes, their mode of setting as well as constructions is in such a way that they depict intense, hostile areas. In addition to periods that the inmates ought to undergo to transform to better people (Tidball & Krasny, 2013). Rikers Island Correctional facility is not a prison by United States terminology as it does house convicts serving longer-term sentences. Study of the environment and issues of concerns in this facility will hence be of great importance …show more content…
The women here mostly come from a mindset where their dreams have ended up cut short and sunk into utter desperation whereby they end up involving themselves in engagements by the wrongful doing. A mega jail like this usually houses approximately between 10,000 and 14,000 prisoners at any given time (Hilinski-Rosick& Walsh, 2016). “The island” as it is commonly referred to, features 10 jails, a high-tech seclusion building for TB patients, and stacks of ribbon razor (Novick & Fox, 1997).
Studies so far allege approximately 95% of the women in this facility are African American and Puerto Rican who are victims abused at a young age. (Zinn & Arnove, 2004).
A majority of the women here in this facility are serving their time due to drug related crimes. Women who are doing long time and those with prostitution related cases make up the short term serving population of this facility. Shop-lifting, prostitution, drugs, pick-pocketing, and robbery are the major crimes that the women in this facility have committed (Zinn & Arnove, 2004). The reason as to why most of the people in this facility have committed these kinds of crimes is that they perceive them as the most appropriate and necessary action in their continued …show more content…
In general, people who were released lacked mental health services and they weren’t set up for any government aid. In addition to that, they were not given any housing referrals or medication. This was contrary to the state law, which stated that mentally incapacitated inmates were to be involved in transition planning before they are set free. The court recognized that violation of such a law at the facility greatly increased the chances that mentally incapacitated inmates would likely end up vagrant or re-incarcerated (Tartaro & Lester,
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