Huntsville Prison Rehabilitation

“The number of people incarcerated in the United States grew steadily for nearly 30 years. That number has been slowly decreasing since 2008, but as of 2012 there were still over 2 million people incarcerated in prisons and jails across the country.” (James, 2014)

Located in Walker County 12 miles north of Huntsville and housing up to 1,705 inmates, stands The Huntsville prison unit. The unit has housed notable inmates throughout history, holds the states execution chamber, and prior to 1986, hosted the prison rodeo formerly advertised as “the wildest show behind bars” (Walker, 2010) Through its rich history, Huntsville gained notoriety; through its various reintegration programs, Huntsville earned respect.
On March 13, 1848, legislation passed …show more content…
TSP currently offers two sex offender rehabilitation programs: The Sex Offender Education Program (SOEP), and The Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP). The objectives of these programs include reduction in the potential for further deviant behavior, construction of a comprehensive treatment program, identification of behavioral patterns that have resulted in sexual offending, careful monitoring of an individual’s progress, and providing a continuum of care upon release from the prison (TDCJ, 2014). The theoretical premise of sexual offender programs is that “there is a general consensus in the professional literature that sexually deviant behavior is learned and as such, may be amenable to change” (Curnow R, …show more content…
For this reason, Huntsville enacted the GO KIDS Initiative. “Without intervention, children of incarcerated parents are six 1 to eight 2 times more likely to become involved in a criminal lifestyle” (Employee Resources, 2014). The Go Kids initiative works by “providing opportunities for visitation as well as incorporating programs which, in respect to maintaining public safety, include children of offenders or impact the children of offenders” (Employee Resources, 2014). The theoretical premise of such a program is to prevent the labeling theory which begins with the offender’s children being labeled by society. Consequently, the child therefore has a propensity of living a self-fulfilling prophecy of possible crime related activity/behavior. Huntsville hopes to intercept this cycle with the implementation of this

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