This course provides a comprehensive overview of the field of corrections. It explores agencies,
practices and policies relevant to prisons, jails and probation and parole. Students examine both historic
and contemporary punishment policies in the United States; sentencing structures; sociopolitical economic
conditions that influence disparate sentencing and confinement; facility designs and how they correlate with
inmate management philosophies; the legal aspects of the care, custody and control of inmates; the
constitutional rights and civil liberties of inmates; security operations; and inmate treatment services.
Prerequisites