Correctional Management and Counseling Certificate Program

CMC 437 - The American Jail System

SYLLABUS

Breyer State University offers a complete Certificate program in Correctional Management and Counseling. This is a 12-semester hour course and provides a comprehensive and detailed curriculum in this nursing specialty. The program uses the latest and authoritative texts. The certificate program objective is to prepare person in a correctional field a competent level of knowledge and skill in correctional management and counseling and to provide a vehicle for appropriate credentialing for these persons or persons wanting to work in this field.

Upon successful completion of the certificate program, graduates receive a College Certificate in Correctional Management and Counseling, and 12-semester hours of college credit. CEU certificates are also available for 180 contact hours.

You may enroll at anytime and begin your studies. The Certificate Program is designed to be a self-paced program with one to one faculty mentoring. You are permitted 12 months from the date of enrollment to complete the program. You study and meet the program objectives at their own pace, and are permitted to complete the program in less than the 12-month allotted time frame.

Once officially enrolled, you are given a security password and directions to accessing the online classroom for the Certificate Program. The classroom contains information about me, course assignments, ordering information for textbooks, course objectives, syllabus and information regarding exams. Students correspond with the instructor via email, and/or phone.

EXAMS: During your studies, you will use two textbooks and will create a "Learning Portfolio" by moving through the texts and answering questions related to the reading assignments. Following completion of the Learning Portfolio, you will take one final examination, which is open book. You are given a particular time frame in which to complete the final examination.

GRADES: The Learning Portfolio is graded on a Pass/Fail basis. The final examination is objective type and students receive a letter grade based on the following scale:

90-100%   = A
80-89%     = B
70-79%     = C
below 70% = Fail

Students must receive a letter grade of C or higher to successfully complete the program.

TEXTSBOOKS: The following texts are used in the Certificate Program:

Book 1:Reputable Conduct. By John R. Jones & Daniel P. Carlson. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall Publishing: 2001.

Book 2: Corrections. By Alejandro del Carmen. Coursewise Publishing, Inc. 2000.

Book 3: American Jails: Looking to the Future. By Kenneth E. Earle, Woburn, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998.

Book 4: Morality and the Law. By Roslyn Muraskin & Matthew Muraskin. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall Publishing: 2001

PREREQUISITE: You do not have to be in a correctional program for this certificate, but it would help. A bachelor's degree is NOT required.

INSTRUCTOR: The instructor for this Certificate Program is Micheal Townsend, Ph.D.

PROGRAM COMPLETION: Upon successful completion of all three courses in the program, you are graduated and receive their College Certificate in Correctional Management and Counseling. You receive official transcripts detailing the courses and semester hours awarded, and receive a beautiful college certificate diploma.

Course I- The American Jail System

COURSE SYLLABUS:

TEXTBOOK: There is one textbook required:

Book 1: American Jails: Looking to the Future . Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998. ISBN # 0-13-916958-X

Ordering Information: You may order this book from any source that you wish. Many of the major bookstores through out the country will special order this book for you. I would also recommend trying companies like half.com and those below that might have used sources as well.

You can also order this book online at:

Borders books at
http://www.borders.com

Amazon.com at
http://www.amazon.com

Barnes and Noble at
http://www.bn.com

This course focuses on the major theories and principles behind the jail system and its history and future. The materials for this course are focused on the entire book.

COURSE CONTENT:

1). Jail History: A Short Version
2). Suicide and the Mentally Ill
3). Smalls Jails in America
4). Women in Jail Work and Women Inmates
5). Audits, Policies, and Procedures: Stirring Up Muck for a Purpose
6). Training: Problems and Challenges
7). Crowding
8). Inspections
9). Jails: The Medical Approach
10). Programs
11). Technology
12). Cultural Diversity
13). Legal Issues
14). Direct Supervision Management
15). Juveniles
16). Jails: The Glass Half Full

COURSE OBJECTIVES: At the completion of this course, you will:

1). Understand the history of jails.
2). Understand the mentally ill and the jail system with reference to them.
3). Discuss smaller jails in the US.
4). The role of women in jails.
5). Jails policies and procedures.
6). Problems and challenges with training for jails
7). The crowding problem.
8). Jail inspections.
9). The medical approach to jails.
10). Programs.
11). Technology in the jail system.
12). Cultural diversity in jails.
13). Legal issues with jails.
14). Direct supervision management in the jail system.
15). Juveniles in the jail system.
16). The jails and the glass is half full.
17). Associations and training programs.

COURSE PROGRESSION: The course begins on the date of student enrollment. You have 90 days to complete this course. Extensions are rarely granted, and then, only for extreme emergencies or active military duty. If you do not complete the course within the 90 day time frame receive an "incomplete/withdrawal" and would have to re-register and pay tuition again if you desire to complete it.

This is a self-paced course. You may proceed at the pace that is right for you. It is acceptable to accelerate in this course and complete it in less than 90 days.

As you progress through the course, always feel free to contact your instructor to discuss issues, questions, etc related to the course. Your instructor is there to be a mentor to you as you proceed with learning.

INSTRUCTOR CONTACT: You may contact me via email at any time. You may also request to have a meeting in a chat room with me . Please make such requests directly to me, I will then set the date and time for the chat room meeting. I will answer your emails within 48 hours of receipt.

EXAMS: There is only one examination for this certificate program. The examination may be taken upon successful completion of all of the assignments for Courses I, II, and III in this certificate program. Assignments are graded on a Pass/Fail basis. The final examination is open book, and students have three days to complete it. Your instructor will give you full instructions on accessing and taking the exam as you progress in the certificate program. The final examination covers the materials from all three courses in the certificate program. The final examination consists of objective type questions. The grade scale for the final examination is provided above.

ASSIGNMENTS: All of the assignments for this course are detailed in the classroom. Go back to the classroom page and click on "assignments."