Cja 394 Week 4 Corrections Trends

Corrections Trend Evaluation Jamie Jordan CJA/394 November 25, 2013 Hollis Severns Prisons are state or federal facilities that house adult criminals that are generally sentenced to more than one year and have custodial authority over the inmates. I will evaluate the past, present, and future trends which pertain to the development and operation of institutional and community based corrections. Furthermore, I will go on to identify and analyze current and future issues facing prisons and prison administrators today and the role/issue of alternate correction systems as a developing trend. During the 1700s there were only local holding jails, common prisons, and houses of correction later, during the 1800s prisons became more separated and prisoners were assigned to the appropriate prison. The convicted were not stripped of their belongings like in todays prisons, but they were searched for weapons or objects that could be used to escape. Penitentiaries began in 1790 in Pennsylvania when the Quakers changed the Walnut Street Jail. This was done to provide more humane ways to punish criminals instead of public humiliation, flogging, corporal punishment, torture, mutilation, and beatings. The attributes in the penitentiary era were to separate inmates and they were to stay silent for most