You Are a Newly Appointed Warden for a Maximum Security

question 46

Essay

You are a newly appointed warden for a maximum security prison that houses the most violent offenders in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In fact, of the roughly twodozen prisons in the state, your facility houses the most inmates serving life in prison. The warden whopreceded you opted toretire due tothe frustration of logistically separating somany violent groups within prisons walls. For example, your prison houses eighteen different violent prison gangs, many with long violent histories between them. As the newly appointed warden, you know that new programs must be created totry tocombat the violence between inmates and the violence between inmates and officers. What will you do? Please detail a plan of action outlining some new programs, along with your rationale for how and why you are choosing toimplement them.

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Definitions:

Internalized Mental Actions

involves the process where external activities are transformed into internal, cognitive operations, allowing for abstract thinking and problem solving.

Preoperational

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, typically from ages 2 to 7, characterized by symbolic thinking and a lack of logical operations.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Neutral Stimulus

A stimulus that initially produces no specific response other than focusing attention.