Jail Memo: To the County Term Paper

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However, given that the problem of overcrowding is pervasive in the prison system in general, and not simply at these specific junctures of the judicial process, the choice between a low-use jail and a high-use jail would seem to be the real question. More and more prisoners who might once be shipped to the state penitentiary are now being confined to jails for more extended periods of time than ever before. Thus, to accommodate this problem, a high-use jail that has many of the monitoring and rehabilitative capacities of a prison system would be more useful to the community.

The purpose and function of a high-use jail low-use jail is designed for shorter-term inmates, while a high-use jail is designed to accommodate not simply more inmates, but a wider variety of inmates for longer durations of time. It has the ability to deal with more violent offenders, but also has more resources for the offenders, including access to exercise facilities or libraries in reward for good behavior, as well as access to vocational and educational counseling to help the prisoners, after their release.
If overcrowding is increasingly problematic in the community of Utopia at least partially because of an increase in crime, such rehabilitative functions might better address this problem than a low-use jail. Also, if the resources of the state penitentiary are being taxed to the degree that criminals must be incarcerated for longer periods of time in jails formerly used for shorter sentences alone, a high-use jail would be better equipped to fill its functions of monitoring and rehabilitating offenders who have a more diverse array of criminal backgrounds and needs.

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