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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.

Even the most peaceful and calmest person develops irrational behavior when held in a confined place and that is why prisoners think of escaping and becoming fugitives instead of waiting for their term to be over and become free citizens again. Escape is not the only challenge in prisons; fatal fights and suicides happen within the cells as well. Most of the weapons used to carry out these in-prison crimes are improvised from within the prison.

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.

A safe partition would allow for automated lockdown as a safety measure in case there is commotion in the prison. The prison officers in any facilities are always several folds outnumbered by the number of prisoners held in it. It is not possible for the officers to go round locking the partitions or opening them each day. The process should be automated to cut costs of operating the facility.

Digging through or under walls is one of the commonest way of escaping from prisons. Planning for these escapes takes even years and happens without the knowledge of officers since it is done slowly by slowly in the partitions at night when no one can suspect it. Using very strong materials to make these partitions solves this problem.

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.

The about 68% of the 309 on average prison escapes recorded in a year, happen when in transportation. There is no way transportation of prisoners can be done away with since there are constant inter-prison transfers on daily basis and new prisoners taken to prison each day. The only way around this worrying statistics is to ensure the partitions in the transport vehicles are high quality in order to avoid escapes.

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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