Jumat, 17 Oktober 2014

The Need For Safe Prisoner Partition

By Dominique Martin


Statistics have shown that many prisoners in prisons try to break out and some are successful in their attempts in the United States. The main reason they escape is because they are not willing to spend a lot of their life time behind bars and they mostly succeed because the prisoner partition holding them are not usually strong enough to keep them in. The whole essence of keeping prisoners in jails is lost when they escape, since they are supposed to stay in prison to be kept out of the society for correctional purposes.

People in a confined place are known to develop behaviors which can be harmful to themselves or to others. Deaths in the prisons due to suicide and fights have been reported in the past. Some of the people in prisons are taken there due to murder and other major crimes and don't find it contributes to committing such a crime again. Anything within the partition can be used as a weapon that can injure another person, hence making a perfectly safe partition is crucial.

To avoid any kind of suicide being committed inside the prison, it is imperative for the people involved in the construction of the facility and in particular the partitions to put the use of any materials that can't be used by suicidal people to take their lives. Sharp objects, such as glass, should not be used at all. The high cost of construction is worth it.

Crucial safety measures, such as automated lockdown of partitions, should be available. It is almost impossible to have large numbers of prisoners in same facility and expect not to have chaos within that facility once in a while. Without lockdown systems, these people can easily overpower the security personnel in the facility and escape.

Prisoners in some prisons have escaped by digging through the prison walls. Most of this digging is done from their partitions, something that can be avoided by using materials which are extremely hard to dig through them. Partitions made using these materials prove it hard for anyone trying to escape through this way.

Holding prisoners in isolation when they pose danger to other prisoners can be achieved by using partitions complete with washrooms. This also ensures that fights, which normally occur in shared washrooms, are avoided. It is a way of avoiding any chances of lawsuits against the facility by family members of prisoners injured in the facility.

Transfer of prisoners from one prison to another is a norm that happens daily. Most of the escapes, however, happen during this routine practices, comprising of high percentage of the 309 escapes on average annually. The partitions used in the transport vehicles are responsible for this and should be improved to minimize if not completely end this trend.

The government has to protect the lives of the officers involved in keeping prisoners in prison by creating safe prison partitions. During escape, prisoners will kill or injure any officer who tries to stop them. The stress the officers have already should not be worsened by fears of prison breaks.




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