Problem: Respond to Leslie in a short educational response. When incarcerated, inmates tend to adapt to their environment by acclimating to other inmates' cultures, norms, values, and behaviors to fit in and gain protection and benefits. This can lead to the development of bad habits and the embrace of criminal values. As a prison administrator, the two ways I would deal with the prisonization problem would be:
1) Implement rehabilitative and restorative treatment for inmates to encourage those incarcerated to take accountability and work to better themselves and get treatment if needed, rather than seeing them as needing to be incarcerated for the sole purpose of being punished and disciplined for their crimes committed. Need Assignment Help?
2) Hold the staff accountable for their actions if they abuse their power and use physical force that violates policies, procedures, or laws when correcting an inmate. By making staff accountable for their actions, it encourages inmates to be compliant with a positive relationship between the staff and inmates while also ensure the safety of both the staff and those incarcerated.