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Correctional Field Experience

CJUS 4000/5000

Who: Dr. Charisse T.M. Coston

Where: The Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology; 5081 Colvard Building; 704 687-0745

Office Hours: by appointment only

Course Objective:

The primary objective of this course is to familiarize students with the operational aspects of correctional institutions through visits to various minimum, medium and maximum security prisons, county jails, juvenile detention centers, mental hospitals, and community-based facilities in the State of North Carolina. You are responsible for your own transportation. Car-pooling arrangements will be made during the first day of class. You can also plan to meet one another on the first floor of the student parking deck located right behind the city bus stops.

Grading:

All final grades for this course will result in a letter grade. In order to pass this class you must:

Attend all tours (unless justified by extenuating circumstances). Attendance will be taken everyday before the tour.

Undergraduates must submit in writing a 10 page paper on a pre-approved correctional issue that integrates the field trips and library sources as references. You must have at least 10 citations from the library and eight references from the field trip sites (the field trip references will be in the body of the paper). DUE: August 3, 2015 by 12 noon.

Graduate presentations will be held on August 3, 2016 during our regularly scheduled class time.

Graduate Student Grading:

In order to pass this class, you must write, and then present a 12-15 page position paper addressing the following:

You have been selected as a special advisor to the North Carolina Governor. He/She wants you to identify one correctional issue deduced from your visits to North Carolina prisons and develop practical strategies for resolving it, e.g., should we have coed prisons?; should we have conjugal visitation?; Should treatment in prison emphasize security or rehabilitation?; Should status offenders be offenders?; Could restitution and victim compensation programs ultimately eliminate the need for prisons?; What are the problems of prison overcrowding and legislative attempts at solving it?; Should juveniles be subjected to the death penalty?; Should psychiatrists, who have been traditionally-trained to save lives have the responsibility for rehabilitating people who have become mentally ill while awaiting execution so that they can be executed?; Should mandatory death penalty statues be permitted in certain types of cases? Why? Why not? These are just suggestions. You will need to do a little library research and your bibliography should contain at least 10 citations*. You must get your issue approved by me before presenting it.

Your undergraduate and graduate papers should adhere to the following and form your table of contents:

Background of the issue (nature and scope of the problem)

Pro Arguments

Con Arguments

Your Contention (based upon the literature review)

Policy Suggestions

Bibliography

*Be sure to integrate an ideas from each one of the prisons/jails that we have visited this semester.

DATE ACTIVITY*

July 6 Course introduction and overview

Meet in 5100 Colvard Building at 9 instead of 8.

July 11 Mecklenburg County Jail (Central)

Charlotte, N.C.

9-11; (704) 336-8100

30 minutes

July 13 Center for Community Transitions (ECHO); 5825 Old Concord Road;

Charlotte, N.C. 28213

(704) 494-0001

July 18 Restitution and Re-entry Center

Federal Correctional Institution

309 Remount Rd.

Charlotte NC 28217

(704) 332-9900

July 20 Southern Correctional Institution

Troy, N.C.

9-11; (910) 572-3784

1 hour and 15 minutes

July 25 Central Prison

1300 Western Blvd

Raleigh North Carolina 9-11; (919) 733-0800

2 hours and 45 minutes

and

NC Institution for Women

1034 Bragg Street (10 minutes from Central Prison); 1:30-3:00pm;

(919) 733 4340

July 27 Piedmont Correctional Center

1245 Camp Rd. Salisbury, N.C.

9-11; (704) 639-7540

45 minutes

August 1 Stonewall Jackson Youth Development Center; Concord, NC

9-11; 704 652 4305

30 minutes

August 3 ON CAMPUS

5100 Colvard Building

Graduate Presentations; Undergraduate and Graduate Papers Due> BY EMAIL August 3, 2016 by 12 noon

Note: All travel times are based upon using UNCC as the point of origin. Please plan to arrive at the prison a half an hour before the tour begins

Correctional Field Experience (CJUS 4000 and 5000)

Rules and Regulations

Please be on time. No one will be allowed to join the group once the tour begins and after we have gone beyond the gates/walls and into the prison.

The exchange of phone numbers, home addresses or mailing addresses between any student (male or female) and a prisoner is strictly prohibited.

Dress Code (both male and female): no halter or tank tops, no hats or scarves or other hair ornaments, no tight clothing, only post earrings and a wedding band are allowed, males cannot wear earrings, no body piercing, no shorts, no clothing with holes, no hanging, sagging pants (underwear cannot be showing and belted pants must be worn), no skirts or dresses, no high heels. Loose fitting sweat pants, blue jeans and khakis are okay, but NOT leggings. Closed toe shoes only, No handcuff keys. If your clothing is deemed inappropriate then you will not be admitted.

Past victims who’s perpetrator is in the State’s prison system need to let me know so that he/she can be identified and moved elsewhere within the building, if necessary, while we are touring the facility.

Students who have served jail or prison time in the State of North Carolina can tour the facilities as long as they have been out of the system for at least six months.

Bring a driver’s license or photo identification card with you.

No purses, handbags, cell phones, pagers, prescription or illicit drugs (felony offense), or firearms are allowed. Lock these items in your automobile’s trunk.

Everyone is subject to a security search.

If required, you must sign a visitor’s book and obtain a visitor pass that you will wear throughout the tour.

Upon arrival, please park in the visitor’s parking area.

No pregnant women who are showing will be allowed in to the prison.

Bring a doctor’s note or card if you have any artificial internal hardware or body parts.

The State of North Carolina has a policy of not negotiating with hostage takers. In other words, if we are taken hostage, which is a remote possibility, then the powers that be will not negotiate for our release. UNC-C is NOT legally responsible for any problematic experiences that might occur as a result of your participation in this course.

No chewing gum

Remember that we are the guests of these institutions and providing tours for us is quite an imposition. I am sure that I do not need to formally stress the following, but if I do not then someone might violate it. Please do not laugh at, make fun of, or otherwise agitate the inmates. It is okay to respond in kind if they say ‘hello’ to you. However, lengthy chats with the inmates are inappropriate unless we are speaking to them as a group and they are on a panel.

Note: Academic integrity must be strictly observed and upheld by all UNCC students. Please refer to the Code of Academic Integrity ( p. 275-278 of the 2010-2012 UNCC catalog).

Directions*

Mecklenburg County Jail (30 minutes)

Take North Tryon Street heading downtown and turn left onto 11th Street. Follow 11th St. until it becomes McDowell. Stay on McDowell and turn right onto 4th St. The jail will be on your right. You will need to find parking and pay for it. It’s about $5.00. Hint: I have parked in the US Post Office lot for free which is accessible from McDowell St; couple of blocks before 5th Street.I am not responsible if you are towed.

Mecklenburg County Jail (North—25 minutes)

Take Harris Blvd to Statesville Road (Route 115) and turn left.

When the road becomes Sunset-- make a right hand turn at that light;

Go about a mile and turn left onto Specter Dr. The facility is all the way at the end of the road.

Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Work Release and Restitution Center (30 minutes)

Take Tryon St to

11th St. turn left and follow the road around until it turns into McDowell. Right before Elizabeth street, turn left into the parking lot on the left (light tan and light brown brick and block building), come in and up to the main desk as you enter through the double doors.

901 Elizabeth St. is the address but you have enter from the McDowell side. DO NOT PARK IN THE FRONT.

Center for Community Transactions (ECHO) Take Harris Blvd to the Old Concord Rd exit and turn right onto Old Concord Rd. Continue about two and a half miles, the prison will be on the right. The prison consists of two small one story blue buildings. Park in the back and walk up onto the porch.

Piedmont Correctional Center (30 minutes)

I-85N

Peeler Road Exit and turn left. At the stop sign, take a left.

Turn right at the Rowan County Prison (Camp Rd), and follow the road around to the hi-rise prison.

The Restitution and Re-entry Center (Federal locked facility—FCI. (45 minutes)

I-85 to I 77 to Exit 9a (West Blvd.). Cross West Blvd and continue to Barringer Dr. and turn left onto Remount Rd. The prison will be on your right be. (S. Tryon St. and South Blvd). It is a little brown building. Park in the back and enter at the green awning in the front.

Southern Correctional Institution (1 hour and 15 minutes)

Take I-485 E to the Albemarle Rd.(24/27)exit. Follow 24/27 into Albemarle and then into Troy. Once you get into Troy turn left onto Main Street. Go over the railroad tracks and continue down the street about a mile and a half and turn right onto Glenn Rd. Do not stop at the prison at the top of the hill go down the hill and Southern will be on your left. The BIG one.

Lanesboro Correctional Institution (about an hour and 15 minutes)

I-74 to Polkton NC; bear to the right after passing the bridge and follow the directional signs to the prison. OR

Take I-485 and exit onto Route 218 into Polkton and turn left. Bear right across the bridge and follow signs to the prison; 552 prison Camp Rd. Make sure that you do not end up at Brown Creek Correctional Center.

Central Prison (2.5 hours)

85 North

40 East

to

Saunders Street Exit and follow exit onto Western Blvd

Turn left and then right into Central Prison 1300 Western Blvd

North Carolina Women’s Prison ( from Central Prison 10 minutes)

Turn left leaving Central Prison and Western Blvd will change names to MLK Blvd.

Turn right immediately after the light at State St. and go about 3 to 4 blocks and turn left onto Bragg St.

Stonewall Jackson Youth Development Center

1484 Old Charlotte Road; Concord, NC; 28027 (15 minutes)

Take 49 North to Old Charlotte Road and turn left; then take your first left onto Holtshouser Rd, and go down the hill to the new building. You should see utility boxes when you make your left and there might not seem like there is a road there.

*ALL DIRECTIONS ARE FROM UNCC

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Field Trip Acknowledgment of Risk and Consent for Treatment

Section 1 Class: Correctional Field Experience Field Trip Date(s): Second Summer Session

Field Trip Leader: Dr. Charisse T.M. Coston Telephone: _(704) 687-0745

Address: Department of Criminal Justice; University of North Carolina at Charlotte; 5062 Colvard Building; Charlotte North Carolina

Equipment/supplies to be provided--

• By participant: Transportation to and from prison sites

Physical activities to be undertaken include: walking; limited seating

Risks inherent in this field trip include physical or psychological injury due to: Hostage-taking. All of the states including the federal government have a policy of not negotiating with hostage-takers. UNC-C will not provide insurance for students during this class. It is suggested that you have your personal insurance in case there is an accident of any kind.

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Alternative project or activity available for credit (if acknowledgment/consent not given): None

Section 2 (To be completed by field trip participant or parent or guardian of minor field trip participant)

I acknowledge that there are certain risks inherent in field trips, including but not limited to those indicated in Section 1 above, and that all risks cannot be prevented. I represent that I/my minor child am/is physically able, with or without accommodation, to participate in this field trip, am/is able to use the equipment and/or supplies described above, and have/has obtained the required immunizations.

Should I/my minor child require emergency medical treatment as a result of accident or illness arising during the field trip, I consent to such treatment. I acknowledge that the University of North Carolina at Charlotte does not provide health and accident insurance for field trip participants, and I agree to be financially responsible for any medical bills incurred as a result of such emergency medical treatment. I will notify the trip leader if I/my minor child have/has medical any condition about which emergency medical personnel should be informed.

In case of emergency, please contact:

Relation to Participant: Telephone:

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NO ONE UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE IS ALLOWED TO TAKE THIS CLASS

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