Changes In Correction Over Time

Changes in correction over time

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Introduction:

Many issues could be witnessed in the Americans prisons, but for the last four decades, there has been witnessed an issue that is grasping attention of all the authorities and general public, and this issue is “aging population in prisons and challenges in dealing them”. According to the reports, the aging prison population has become the primary challenge for the management that is dealing with all their affairs in prisons. Media has also highlighted this issue by discussing the outcomes that are casting drastic effects on the overall procedures that used to be carried out in prisons. This fact cannot be denied that life in prison is a challenge and it is not right to expect that the elderly people are going to bear this challenge without having any negative impacts on them. Challenge of being imprisoned even becomes the worst experience for those people whose bodies and minds are being whittled away by age.

Discussion:

Prisons in the United States are filled with an ever-growing number of aging men as well as women who cannot manage to do their personal tasks and even walk a distance of few miles. So, I think as there are occurring many changes in world, it is also a golden opportunity for the authorities to make possible changes in laws that are related to aging people who are spending their lives in prisons (Sanders,et,al,2018). I think aged people who are in prisons should be given relief as being there in prisons for years they become victim of many health issues as it has been seen that most of the aged prisoners suffer from chronic diseases and cannot even manage to go to washrooms.

There could be seen another major challenge that the aged people face and that is difficulty in finding a job when they are released from the prisons. After crossing age of 50, inmates are likely at less risk for committing any misconduct, so they are preferred when it comes to releasing some prisoners. After spending so many years in prisons, it becomes difficult for them to communicate with other community members and they get into depression. Aged people should be given extra care no matter whether they are inside the prisons or outside, but unfortunately, the prisons are designed in such a way that they cause acceleration decline in the overall health condition of the inmates (Skarupski,et,al,2018). There is a need to pay more attention for changing the ways, how elderly people are treated in prisons since long. It has been seen that the staff at prisons are not being given any professional training, how to deal with aged prisoners and how to deal with the extended needs of elderly people in prisons. So by taking a look at the overall scenario what challenges are being faced by both the elderly prisoners and the management who takes care of them, I would opine that government should promote some effective changes for bringing about positivity in aged prisoners.

By taking, an in depth analysis, of ways that how the management, manages the elderly people in prisons, it could be said that there are numbers of challenges that both the administration and management of prison face. Mainly these challenges are related to cost, health issues and reentry. By taking a look at the present situation, It has been seen that aged people who are incarnated in prisons for long creates many issues when it comes to the budget that government used to announce for prisons. I think, it is the right time to think of making necessary changes and implementing a correct system of treating aged people, despite making them stay in prisons as their incarnation in prisons, become a significant cause of increased expenses. According to the researchers, it cost much more when it comes to house the elderly people in prisons as they age, they need more medical care and require extra correctional staffing. In today's world, healthcare trends have been replicated inside the walls of prisons. Diabetes and asthma are becoming a server health issue that is becoming more expensive to manage (Wildeman,et,al,2017). Many prisoners face age-related concerns such as hearing loss and many others, in such conditions they need medical equipments and devices that also increase the overall cost of expense.

Conclusion:

So, I would opine that the administration and the authorities should make amendments in the laws that deal with cases of elderly prisoners. There is a need to introduce necessary changes that would help the aged prisoners in having a comfortable life that they would be spending outside the prisons. Aged prisoners should be released from prisons with some financial security so that there would be no need for them to find any job. This thing should be taken into consideration expenses that government is doing inside the prions for providing medical services to the elderly people could become more useful when it would be spent for ensuring that elderly people would get their necessities of life outside the prisons when they would be released. It has been seen that aged people used to pose more challenges to the correctional facilities. By taking a look at the latest numbers of aged prisoners, it could be said that there comes an additional responsibility on government to make sure that it is not only going to lessen the number of people getting in and out of prisons, but it would focus on the reentry process of the aged people who are already living inside the prisons. So the duration of the punishment of elderly people should be ended after they become fifty plus and should be released from prisons as they remain no more violent for the community.

References:

Skarupski, K. A., Gross, A., Schrack, J. A., Deal, J. A., & Eber, G. B. (2018). The health of America’s aging prison population. Epidemiologic reviews, 40(1), 157-165.

Sanders, S., Stensland, M., & Juraco, K. (2018). Agency behind bars: Advance care planning with aging and dying offenders. Death Studies, 42(1), 45-51.

Wildeman, C., & Wang, E. A. (2017). Mass incarceration, public health, and widening inequality in the USA. The Lancet, 389(10077), 1464-1474.