2e.+Jail+Tour

=Suffolk County House of Corrections / Nashua St. Jail Tours=
 * Jail Tour Objectives: **
 * students will gain a deeper knowledge of the relationship between ethics and laws and their importance in society through detainees real-life stories.
 * students will have a better understanding of the types of punishments for specific crimes.
 * students will gain an appreciation for their constitutional rights as a law abiding citizen when observing the process by which a person is arrested, booked, and held in the system.
 * students will be able to assess how our criminal justice system works and the effect that prison time has on a criminal for punishment and rehabilitation purposes.
 * students will understand the cost and overall operation of the facility to maintain prisoners in a prison environment.


 * [|Nashua Street Jail] **

[|House of Corrections]



How could society have prevented this person from committing a crime? How should we punish people who commit crimes similar to him/her? How can we rehabilitate people who commit these types of crimes or should we? Do you think a criminal like this can be rehabilitated?
 * CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM**
 * Questions to think about.......**

Research a current criminal. You can use the newspapers to find a recent one or use the site below to find a recent case. After seeing the Suffolk County House of Corrections / Nashua St. Jail and learning about the prison system, write a one page paper that describes your feelings about using jail time as a form of punishment for a crime. Do you think it is effective? Why or why not? Do you think that the criminal that you chose can be rehabilitated in our jail system? []
 * Task 1:**

Go to the Escape from Alcatraz page. View the information provided. Looking at the "daily schedule" for prisoners on that page, compare their day with the schedule you viewed at the House of Corrections / Nashua St. Jail. How do they compare and or differ? What are your thoughts about each schedule?
 * Task 2:**