Prison Management: Whistle

[Abishai100]

A society's management of its prison comprises its presentation of jurisprudence wisdom.

A prison must adequately incarcerate a criminal offender without creating an atmosphere of inhuman cruelty or claustrophobia.

Many prisons in America offer inmates libraries and cafeterias which present stimulating books and nutritious meals designed to foster peaceful incarceration.

Dialogue about prison management therefore illuminates the human value of relevant governance-themed social art totems such as the frailty-cartoon Hollywood (USA) movie "American Psycho" (2000).

 

[jwoodie]

Interestingly, penitentiaries in the US were originally conceived as places of enforced isolation where a person could reflect on and become penitent for his crimes. That worked out about as well as other forms of rehabilitation.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Prison management requires well trained staff. One 'masochist' can create chaos, and a few malcontents can make life for staff and inmates intolerable. My point, Correctional Officers (CO's) must be carefully screened, psychologically secure and well paid with good benefits, including four weeks vacation (remember, many will work most holidays) and at least a week of paid training annually.

Of course, CO's are government employees, thus there will be those who believe government employees are all overpaid, lazy and non productive, such 'goodies' are undeserved and a waste of taxpayer money.

 

[shart_attack]

A society's management of its prison comprises its presentation of jurisprudence wisdom.

A prison must adequately incarcerate a criminal offender without creating an atmosphere of inhuman cruelty or claustrophobia.

Many prisons in America offer inmates libraries and cafeterias which present stimulating books and nutritious meals designed to foster peaceful incarceration.

Dialogue about prison management therefore illuminates the human value of relevant governance-themed social art totems such as the frailty-cartoon Hollywood (USA) movie "American Psycho" (2000).

A better way to put it would be this way:

A society's management of its prison comprises its presentation of jurisprudence wisdom.

A prison must adequately incarcerate a criminal offender without creating an atmosphere of inhuman cruelty or claustrophobia.

Many prisons in America offer inmates libraries and cafeterias which present stimulating books and nutritious meals designed to foster peaceful incarceration.

Dialogue about prison management therefore illuminates the human value of relevant governance-themed social art totems such as the accurate portrayal of how an egregious socioeconomic gap between the super-rich and the poor feeds the contemporary military-industrial complex in "American History X" (1998).

That's why the gap is so dangerous in America today.

The richest idiots in Hollywood can sit back in their little ivory houses and make fun of poor Americans like the prostitutes portrayed in films like "American Psycho", but eventually the chickens will come home to roost for the super-rich, too.

That's where films like "The Purge" come in, see.

We are all going to die.

But we poor people are used to it. We can handle it.

The super-rich cannot.

They are going to be terrified when their judgment day comes.

 

[whitehall]

Don't base your opinion of the American prison system on Shawshank .

 

[Abishai100]

Audiobook Project

Initiatives to fund the upkeep of prison libraries are positive symbols of progress.

In a society that celebrates convenience goods such as fast food (i.e., Burger King), you would think that there would be a plethora of media broadcasts about the quality and condition of prison cafeterias.

A challenge for the maintenance of prison systems is the social perception that inmates actually like negative sentiments and a rugged incarceration or that they just don't plain deserve any political attention.

It is somewhat true that prison inmates may not at all be interested in reading books while in prison. However, something to consider is, instead of thinking about if inmates should have video games in their cells (one extreme perhaps) or be force-fed non-nutritious horse meat (the other extreme), we could ask managers to provide prisons with audiobooks.

An audiobook is a work of literature such as "Treasure Island" (Robert Louis Stevenson) transcribed on audio cassette for simple playback. Audiobooks can provide inmates with the right peace-promoting stimulation without imposing psychological demands they might deem socially awkward in the company of other inmates.

An audiobook is neither a high-definition TV nor is it a 400-page book with tiny text written by a French erudite writer such as Alexandre Dumas.

We might find that encouraging social managers and policy-makers to provide prisons with simple audiobooks is just easy enough to cut through the demoralizing bureaucracy in this domain.






Audiobook - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

 

[Anathema]

Prison management should be nothing more than figuring out how to dispose of the bodies after they're executed.

 

[Abishai100]

Prison Water Pipes

How much do we care about the quality of water reservoirs in America in our age of eco-activism and water pollution complaints?

Water is piped into schools, hospitals, and prisons from reservoirs and tunnel systems.

Do we care if polluted water is piped into prison water fountains and faucets?

Imagine a prisoner who writes letters to Congressmen about water pollution concerns in America. Does the Congressman care about the quality of water pumped into the prison?

Civil infrastructure is important for populism politics.






Drain - Prison Architect Wiki

 

[I.P.Freely]

Prison management should be nothing more than figuring out how to dispose of the bodies after they're executed.

I concur, the more draconian the prison the more dead prison officers.

 

[Anathema]

I concur, the more draconian the prison the more dead prison officers.

How do you expect that to occur when in a proper prison the officers are always on the other side of a solid steel door from the prisoners?

 

[Abishai100]

Janitorial Closet: Warden Window

When a prison manager (or warden) is hired to oversee all matters of institution maintenance, security, and scheduling, inspectors feel better about the quality of incarceration area hygiene, psychiatric reliability, and lockdown controls.

How prisons run their cafeterias, ensure proper plumbing, and train skilled guardsmen and counselors affects how society evaluates its own sense of jurisprudence confidence.

When a prison employer reports to one of his/her prison's janitors that the quality of the prison stockroom's cleaning supplies is satisfactory, this little communique trickles down to all kinds of everyday prison affairs. Attitude is important.

Why hire a prison chaplain or prison librarian to motivate inmates to pursue peaceful incarceration sentences when the prison manager/warden is not bothering to ensure adequate prison upkeep? When a prison manager/warden is diffident to the conditions of his/her prison, inmates get the psychological feeling that a prison-yard weightlifting area (or gym) is simply a 'pedestrian token.' When inmates get this feeling, it's easier for them to cater to feelings of anti-socialism.

Pine-Sol is a special brand of cleaner which includes pine-scented ingredients (i.e. pine-oil, pine-cone extracts, etc.). Pine-Sol markets cleaning products through the lens of 'naturalism hygiene.' Does a prison manager/warden feel the social compulsion to stock Pine-Sol for prison janitors? Attitude is important.




Pine-Sol

Lockup (MSNBC)

 

[Abishai100]

Jailhouse Rock

I'd like to add another note about general 'upkeep' of prisons.

When an inmate can say things like, "Oh, yeah, the jailhouse payphones all work" or "Yeah, the jail guards supply us with nice warm blankets for our cots," then you know that a prison is being managed well.

No one wants to deal with prison maintenance costs, since people simply do not care about the amenities afforded to convicted criminals, but if our jails are rotten and poorly kept, why not just argue that we'd rather these criminals all be given the death penalty to avoid prison maintenance costs altogether?

Everything is hanging on the power of the press. This is an issue that really needs to reach the people, otherwise there will be very little incentive for people to 'research' this subject on their own.


LA Times.com

 

[anotherlife]

I thought prison management meant the art of maximizing the shareholder value of prison service contractor companies.