week 5

Management of the Prison Population

A prison warden faces many challenging issues every day.

  • How are wardens addressing drug addiction among inmates?
  • What are wardens doing about the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in prison facilities?
  • How are prison wardens coping with a growing inmate population with mental illnesses?
  • Explain how Supreme Court rulings have determined how wardens must deal with these issues. Justify your answers using examples and citing court cases.
  • Drugs
  • Mental Illness
  • HIV/AIDS
  • https://nicic.gov/

Justify your answers with in-text citations.
Read and comment upon the posts of at least two of your classmates and respond to follow-up posts by other students.