Cja 484 Week 1 Criminal Justice Trends

Correctional Institutions Evaluation Name Institution Lecturer Date Correctional Institutions Evaluation Prison or jail refers to federal or state facilities where individuals are not only forcefully confined but also denied freedom. The denial of freedom is a form of punishment to adult criminals who have been sentenced to more than 8 months. This paper will analyze the past, present and future trends that affect the operation and development of community and institution based corrections. It will also evaluate the current and future problems facing prisons and its administration (Waller, 2009). It will also evaluate the effect of the adoption of alternate correctional systems. There were various ways of executing punishment as early as 1670. Prison ships and colonies were used in America as from 1688. It was the alternative to death penalty, which was imposed for several offenses. By 1710, correctional facilities such as common prisons, local holding, and houses of correction had already been put in place. In these facilities, prisoners did not have partitions thus allowing free movement of prisoners. John Howard proposed numerous amendments after having visited several prisons. He led to the enactment of the penitentiary act. This act proposed the separation of prisons and the prisoners