Understanding the adaption of prison inmates to prison life is one of critically important concerns for correctional administration. Correctional administration not involving such the concern is widely viewed as one having significant limitations in h...
Understanding the adaption of prison inmates to prison life is one of critically important concerns for correctional administration. Correctional administration not involving such the concern is widely viewed as one having significant limitations in helping prison inmates to get re-socialized. In this context, this study was performed with 320 subjects who were adult male and female convicts with one or more criminal records of imprisonment, confined in prison across the country. The studied variables included: importation factors such as gender, age, educational background, marriage, the presence of offspring(s) and cumulative criminal history, and inmate-family intimacy related indexes such as correspondence with family members, phone conversation with family members, family visiting, provisional holding by family members, and divorce claim by the spouse. As a result of analysis, the sentence-serving attitudes of inmates in prison depended upon two importation factors: marriage and the presence of offspring(s). In addition, the higher the frequency of correspondence with family members and their visiting to prison was, the better their sentence-serving attitudes were. In conclusion, for the sake of more effective and desirable correctional administration, it is required to develop a variety of programs designed to strengthen social ties, especially family ties with inmates, and consequently, to encourage their desire for rehabilitation and recidivism control, in the manner of analyzing thoroughly the importation factors of prison inmates to individualize the practices of correctional administration.