A prison is a public building used for the confinement of people convicted of serious crimes. Aside from the death penalty, a sentence to prison is the harshest punishmentimposed on criminals in the United States. Every prison have a system, a set of principles or procedures according to which something is done; an organized scheme or method. During the prison system process inmates are arrange in classes or categories according to shared qualities or characteristics. Then they are place or assign in a particular category." A probation officer will classify and assign each inmate to the appropriate security level facility and custody status guided by the principles of placement in the least restrictive setting consistent with maintaining the …show more content…
It Insures the safety of other inmates and prison officials. It appoints the type of facility to which they will be assigned, and the level of supervision they will receive once they are there. (Smith, 2012) There are two types of classification process, Subjective and Objective Classification systems. Under the subjective approach, decision-making is governed principally by broadly defined criteria related to the agency’s correctional philosophy, the jail’s physical design, and the inmate’s own characteristics. Officials would decide where to house an inmate and under what type of supervision and security. Under the objective , the systems are dependent upon staff use of a standardized form ,ex. Checklist or score sheet, to access an inmate’s custody and or program needs. An objective system looks at current charges, violent charge history, escape history, inmate behavior, warrants, or outside/community involvement to make a standardized classification decision. A successful classification plan consists of many components. The components are as following; Screening, "classification that includes age, gender, tendency for disruptive behavior, PREA concerns, and the