Correctional Administration Project 2: Case Study On Best Practices

Correctional AdministrationName:Institutional affiliationSwift, Certain and Fair ModelIntroduction Administrative segregation or restrictive housing as is commonly known is described as the locking of a single or two inmates in one cell for more than 22 hours consecutive. Life in restrictive housing has been documented by inmate and correctional officials as inhumane. There is also an unfair and unnecessary High rate of inmates sent to solitary confinement areas in American correction facilities compared to the rest of the world is alarming. In 2015, retired president Barack Obama requested the Attorney General Loretta Lynch to create a commission to research into not only why the method is popular in the country, but also how the use of the practice can be reduced. Among the questions that the Department of Justice had were concerned with how the correction department could handle violent and disruptive inmates as well as protect vulnerable inmates. Among the proposed alternatives is the Swift, Certain & Fair model that was tested at SCI Somerset. Pilot discipline model set by Somerset facilityIn 2015, the Pennsylvanian Department of Corrections rolled out a three month discipline model and later extended