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Importance Of Safety In 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.

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.

Suicides in the prisons can be avoided if the partition is taken through quality checks to ensure whatever is inside it, a suicidal prisoner can't use to commit suicide. Any sharp object that can be used to cut arms as a way of suicide or any other way that it can be done should totally be avoided in the making of the partitions. Safe partitions can be costly, but it is way expensive to let a life be lost.

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.

Good partitions come with complete inbuilt beds and washrooms for the prisoners. This reduces the fights which usually occur in common washrooms in prisons leading to some prisoners injured and others dead. Prisoners causing trouble in the facility can be completely isolated from the others within their partitions.

It is a common practice for inter-prison transfer of prisoners to happen on daily basis. This is the time prisoners take the opportunity to escape from their transport partitions. There are 309 on average escapes per year with 68% of these happenings during transportation. The reason of this high figure is the way some partitions used in the transport vehicles are made, which make it easy for prisoners to escape.

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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