COMMON PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED BY SELECTED INMATES OF QUEZONPROVINCIAL JAILA Thesis Proposal Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the CourseBachelor of Science in criminology ByMARK ROD H. LABAYOCollege of Criminology of Law EnforcementManuel S.Enverga FoundationLucena CityJanuary 2008
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Jail is a correctional institution to used to detain persons who are in the lawfulcustody of the government. This includes either accused persons awaiting trial or for those who have convicted of a crime. Jails are generally small prisons run by individualcountries and cities, though some jails in larger communities may be a large and hold asmany inmates as regular prisons. Jail is also a synonym for prison, especially when thefacility is of a similar size as a prison. As with prisons, some jails have different wingsfor certain types of offenders, and have work programs for inmates who demonstrategood behavior.
Prison policy was driven for much of that 20
th
century by a hope that the staff inthe environment would rehabilitate prisoners and fit them for a more productive life onrelease. In the 1970s a series of studies showed that this aim was not being achieved, andit become clear that stop were disillusioned with the concept. Rehabilitation is not nowsought as an active in a course of a prison sentence although limited facilities are madeavailable to prisoners, For example, to gain education, where the overcrowding of thesystem does not make it possible.Deterring crime is another function claimed for prisons, but for prisonersthemselves it seems to be a little effect. A larger than average number of offenders come
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from background that have not equipped them either educationally or emotionally for inter interrelation in a law abiding community. The re offending rate among ex-prisoner is about two third of those release, which is, if anything, higher than the rate among thosenot imprisoned. The main justification today both in philosophical fashioned and politics,for imprisoning people is that there crime deserved punishment, in that imprisonment isto worst punishment that can humanly be imposed.
The criminologist Gresham Sykes has listed the “pain of imprisonment” that bothmale and female inmate face. The first is the deprivation of liberty and the loneliness and boredom of imprisonment. Second, prisoner are deprive of all goods and services fromthe outside world. Stripped of position, they often equate their material loses with personal inadequacy. The third deprivation, for the majority, is the absence of heterosexual relationship. Fourth, prisoners are subjected to a vast body of institutionalregulations designed to control every aspect of behavior.Male and female prisons cultures however differ fundamentally in difference arelarger influenced by rule behavior learned out of prison. Equally, the values and attitudesattributed to inmates’ societies are importation from the larger world. Although they are
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