Administrative_Segregation

Administrative segregation has evolved throughout the history of incarceration. From the practice of solitary confinement used to punish inmates to putting them in the “hole,” administrative segregation takes on a new role in the operation of jails and prisons. What are the modern uses of administrative segregation in a prison system' Does administrative segregation serve a useful purpose' Why or why not' The concept of administrative segregation grew out of the practice of solitary confinement, which prison administrators began using in the nineteenth century along with many other methods to punish particularly troublesome prisoners. By the beginning of the twentieth century, prison authorities had eliminated most of the other crueler forms of punishment but continued to confine prisoners in solitary or the hole as the major form of punishment for rule breaking. Now modern uses of administrative segregation, the purpose of administrative segregation is to keep an inmate from associating with the general inmate population. Administrative segregation units are very different. These units’ prison administrators have total physical control over all aspects of inmate behavior for extended periods of time often two to five years. Inmates assigned to such housing areas spend twenty-two to twenty-three hours a day in their single, 60-by 80-square-foot, high- security barren cells with minimal access to educational, religious, or other self help programs. The amount of reading material is extremely limited and controlled as well as basic amenities. The front of the cell is often closed with a solid-steel-plate door with a slot to send food, mail, and other items provided by the prison. Inmates is removed for a shower, visit, or recreation, he or she must kneel down with his or her back to the door and place both hands through the cell door slot so they can be handcuffed. When allowed out for “recreation,” imamates are escorted to small and self- contained razor-wired recreation and exercise “cages” with no more than two to three inmates at a time allowed out on the yard. Now Duration is where an inmate is in administrative segregation in a penitentiary, the Service shall Endeavour to return the inmate to the general inmate population, either of that penitentiary or of another penitentiary, at the earliest appropriate time. Grounds for confining inmate in administrative segregation - The institutional head may order that an inmate be confined in administrative segregation if the institutional head believes on reasonable grounds that: The inmate has acted, has attempted to act or intends to act in manners that jeopardize the security of the penitentiary or the safety of any person in that case it’s self. In which the continued presence of the inmate in the general inmate population would interfere with an investigation that could lead to a criminal charge or a charge under subsection of serious disciplinary offences with others. The continued presence of the inmate in the general inmate population would jeopardize the inmate's own safety. The expanded of lockup has made prisons easier to manage, but at the same time it has a negative effect on the prisoners who experience long periods of isolation. By causing the following they suffer of frustration, anger, psychological damage, extreme anxiety and paranoia; confront extreme difficulties in adjusting to outside life. In overall, basically in what just been stated prisoners can have a major affected in administrative segregation caused them to have the following affects high affect on mental illness cause them to breaking down the prison minds and making them have thoughts of killing themselves, or talk to things that are not really there, and have fights with themselves that leads to hurt themselves.