Learning Objectives

  • Describe the origins of jails
     
  • Identify the types of jails in operation
     
  • Explain how jails process individuals
     
  • Assess how jails affect and are affected by overcrowding, race, gender, age, and special needs of their inmates
     
  • Describe the various approaches jails take to address medical problems of inmates
     
  • Discuss how jails manage sexual violence, gangs, and suicides
     
  • Explain the kinds of innovations happening in jails and how they are working out