ause they house the more serious offenders. These people forget that jails hold people before they are sentenced to prison, and that a large percentage of jailers will eventually be imprisoned when their case is settled. To sum it up, most jailers are soon-to-be prisoners, so why is it that their behavior is so much more human in jail than prison? The answer is the way that they are treated in prisons. It is an informal policy that guards must be extremely authoritative to the inmates and can be removed from working at a facility even for making small talk with prisoners. This policy doesn't exist in jails. The idea upheld in prisons is that by running a tight ship they have more control over the prisoners. The truth is that it makes the prisoners more hostile. The only thing found to be more damaging to an inmate's behavior is the use of control units. This is otherwise known as solitary confinement. A prisoner is locked in their cell all day long with no contact with other inmates or guards. New prisons in the south now have remote control doorways and video cameras to take the person from place to place. Thus making the job of the guards safer by not escorting prisoners, however, this means that a prisoner in a control unit now literally can go years without contact with another human being. The idea of less contact with prisoners has come from the increasing number of assaults on prison guards in the past 10 years. However, most of the assaults are coming from maximum-security prisons with control units. Control units which all started roughly ten years ago. It is clear to see the parallel in human behavior in this situation. The higher the level of 'security' or detainment, however you look at it, the more violent the inmates. A clear example of this theory is a prison in Indiana called 'Marion'. It was bumped up to the highest level security prison in the country in the late seventies. Shortly thereafter it became...
