Prison Concerns

All federal inmates who owe penalties and compensation are all required to play part in IFRP (FBP, N.D). The program is mainly accounted to be fully voluntary, but prisoners can be forced to contribute if they are unwilling to make all the monetary payments. These practices might differ from a state to another the principles and practices are similar since those that owe funds will have to sign an agreement with the set team and specify the amount that will be collected every month or on a quarterly basis (FBP, N.D). This program, in my opinion, does help in compensating the victims but it does not make them whole since they can never recover their prior positions before the incidence through financial compensation. Most of them are affected psychologically and they, therefore, need more time to recover than the compensation would offer.

The two major improvements that would be essential in dealing with the issue is drug trafficking in prisons is to employed experts and also the use of scanning machines at all levels of the prisoners. These machines will be able to detect any drugs passage by scanning the surrounding and those that are accessing every unit. This cannot, however, be achieved if those employed to ensure that there is adequate security are not well experienced and exposed. In other words, the hiring process should be enhanced to ensure that it settles for the best staffs who will not by any given chance be conceded while performing their roles since corruption is ruining the system (Browne, 2017). In the recent two men from Quebec prison were accused of offenses related to coordinating drugs shipments amid American and china’s prisons (Browne, 2017). On the other hand in Maryland prison case demonstrates how corruption in the correction system has facilitated the general growth of drug trafficking in prisons (Simpson, 2016).

 

References

Browne, R. (2017). Trafficking behind bars. Retrieved from https://news.vice.com/story/inmates-accused-of-running-international-fentanyl-trafficking-ring-from-a-quebec-prison

FBP. (n.d). Resources For Victims & Witnesses. Retrieved from https://www.bop.gov/resources/victim_resources.jsp

Simpson, I. (2016). Massive Maryland prison corruption case highlights national issue. Retrieved from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-maryland-prison/massive-maryland-prison-corruption-case-highlights-national-issue-idUSKCN1280HJ