Research essay -- Unit management in prisons. Adam Jones. (2011). CRIM 3011 -- Current Issues in Criminal Justice. Adelaide, South Australia: Flinders University Law School.
From the paper by Adam Jones: In a previous assessment for my undergraduate studies, I wrote a paper on faith-based corrections and found, based on my literary review, that there was some anecdotal evidence, which suggested that this sort of model might reduce rates of recidivism, and further research is warranted on faith-based corrections. Inadvertently, in that paper I was describing a form of ‘unit management.’
In this paper I intend to continue exploring ways that prisoners can be given real support and real opportunities within the confines of the prison to promote the chances of success once they have completed their custodial sentence and been released into the community. I will do that by taking a brief look at historical approaches to prisoner management and then focusing on the model known as ‘unit management.’
Although there appears to be a consensus that the unit management model is best practice, I am interested in the latent failures, that is, the unintended consequences of unit management. What, if any, have been the negative consequences of the ‘unit management model’.
I will then finally consider whether, for example, a not-for-profit organisation that advocates commencing and supporting the rehabilitation of prisoners from the commencement of their sentence, could work within the unit management model.
I consider a faith-based model only from the point that through its application in correctional programs, it may promote acceptance, and personal value, something many inmates have not experienced. There is one of these units currently in operation in Texas. The unit is based on the Prison Fellowship International faith based programs which provide the incarcerated with a strong social network, whilst in prison and on their release, consisting of law abiding citizens. As I previously said ‘it would be naive and short sighted to say that a faith based prison is the only way a person can stay out of prison, because there are many examples’ of people who have not returned to prison and have not followed any particular religious belief system.
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