CRJ 106 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Stanford Prison Experiment, Prison Officer, The Corrections
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Guards correctional officers: primitive role professional status for the staff. The state of the work in correctional institutions and programs. 1982-2006 600% increase in direct expenditures for all criminal justice agencies: expenditures for corrections increased by 660, employment in corrections doubled. Of the correctional budget spent on correctional institutions (2011) Proportional growth in inmates have been much larger: jails hold 82% of their capacity, caseloads range around 38 per officer. The more professional, the more money: correctional officers/jailers probation/parole officers police/sheriffs, ,970 ,190 ,980. Why the need to require more education and training exists. Problem was that officers never given any education/training in corrections work: used knowledge of corrections that they"ve experienced in movies and popular press depictions, power ability to get people to do what they otherwise wouldn"t . 2004 prisoners tortured by untrained correctional officers in american-operated military prison in iraq: failure of army leadership at the highest levels, lesson: some people will not act professionally.
