Wednesday, October 29, 2014

The Need For Safe Prisoner Partition

By Dominique Martin


The aim of taking wrong doers to prison is for correctional purposes away from the public until their jail term is over. No one likes to be locked away, whether it is just for one month or lifetime term, that is why many prisoners try to break out if their prisoner partition is not strong and safe to hold them. The safety of partitions during transportation of prisoners ensures that there will be no easy way for escape.

The boring life in prison and all the free time they have, sometimes they use it to carefully plan heinous act of escaping or making enemies in the facility, leading to fights and deaths as it has been reported in the past. A person who has the experience of doing something, always finds it not hard to do it again which is same with murder prisoners. Some other prisoners will not just take it in a good way and decide to take their life with any object they can get their hands on in their partitions.

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.

Self contained partitions are best for prisons where different enemy groups' prisoners are held to ensure that the prisoners will not be meeting at the common washrooms, since they have a washroom in the partition. This reduces chances of fights. It also makes it possible to isolate violent prisoners or isolate sick prisoners in the case of disease outbreak.

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 lives of good officers handling prisoners should not be endangered by the use of poor quality prison partitions. The stress they face on daily basis is enough and the last thing they need to worry about is possibility of prison break. Prisoners can be very violent when they are trying to escape.




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