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Correctional Facilities Deter Crime
1,331 wordsPrivatization in corrections is a trend that is assuming increasing significance. Pratt and Maahs, characterizing privatization in corrections as a growth industry go on to note: Rooted primarily in the political and economic context of the 1980 s. The movement to privatize public services has received increasing support in response to taxpayer demands that government provide more services with fewer resources. Advocates of correctional privatization often argue from a public choice theoretical ...
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Private Prisons And Special Interest Groups
1,564 words... d hands with the staff at the Sudbury Jail and local citizens to fight the privatization of correctional services. OPSEU has a new policy that will support locals to finance public events in their communities that speak out against privatization of correctional services. OPSEU gained the support of two municipal councils. The two councils threw their support behind the anti-privatization motion that was passed by the town of Midland. OPSEU has also mailed lobby kits to all corrections locals...
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Capital Punishment Death Penalty
841 wordsToday American correction facilities experience a crisis of epic proportions. United States prisons and jails house inmates in record numbers with no relief. This situation leads many to suggest that overcrowding in prisons constitutes an important issue facing American correction reform today. One way to deal with overcrowded prisons is to enforce the death penalty. According to David Davis, infliction of the death penalty for certain secular crimes, such as murder and robbery, associates histo...
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Correctional Officers Private Prisons
1,313 wordsPrivate universities, private jails, private health-care and private water testing. What do all of these things have in common? They are all services the Tory government in Ontario has been trying to privatize with some disastrous results and possibly more to come. The Ontario government, lead by Progressive Conservative leader Mike Harris, has been slowly trying to do away with services that are currently administered by the province. The ideology in question, privatization, has been a hallmark...
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Prison Overcrowding Repeat Offenders
1,132 wordsImagine being cramped into a small room with barely enough space for two, where you and five others are squeezed in. The smell of sweat and urine wreaks havoc on your nose. Every time you try to move you touch the person next to you. You have no space to stretch. The air is heavy and hot from all the body heat. To make things worse you cant leave the room for another twenty four hours. How much longer can this last? you think to yourself. Then you remember you still have six years left before yo...
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U S Government Prison Overcrowding
635 wordsImprisonment Eric Schlosser in his article The Prison Industrial Complex examines the problem of prison overcrowding. While the correctional officers see danger in prison overcrowding, others see the opportunity to use prisoners labor. According to him, there are approximately 1. 8 million Americans behind bars, being nonviolent offenders in their majority, which mean jobs for depressed regions and windfalls for profiteers. In general, American prisons have more people than any other world count...
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Prison Overcrowding Violent Crimes
1,356 wordsPrisons in the United States are overcrowded. The incarceration rate in the United States is the highest in the world. There are more than one million people in the United States that are in a correctional facility. The causes for overcrowding include little attention given to social problems, glorification of violence, an epidemic of drug abuse, and mandatory sentencing guidelines. The average cost to house a prisoner in a correctional facility is approximately $ 25, 000 per year. There is also...
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Bureau Of Justice Statistics Cognitive Behavioral
1,859 wordsPrison Rehabilitation, the Laughing-Stock of the Nation The rapid growth of the crime control industry is a frightening aspect of contemporary U. S. society. Incarceration represents the ultimate form of surveillance: 24 hours a day, within four walls, monitored by humans, by machines, restricted in their movements. Prisons are overcrowded but the crime rates still do not have a steady trend toward diminishing. So the question arises: do these prisons and other rehabilitation programs have the a...
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Criminal Justice System Deterrent To Crime
1,743 wordsIn our society's criminal justice system, justice equals punishment. You do the crime, and you do the time. Once you have done the time, you have paid your debt to society and justice has been done. Because our society defines justice in this manner, the victims of crimes often seek the most severe possible punishment for their offenders. Society tells them this will bring justice, but it often leaves them feeling empty and unsatisfied after getting what they wanted. Punishment does not address ...
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Does Sentencing Minors As Adults Work
1,658 wordsDoes Sentencing Minors as Adults Work? In 1990 s American society got fed up with juvenile thugs. People complained that juvenile justice system failed to reform young criminals and what is more, it became a revolving door where young criminals thumbed their noses at discipline, kept right on committing crimes and avoided consequences because of their age. The decision was made to toughen punishment for adolescents and to allow their trying in adult courts. As a consequence of it, in 1996 many s...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Centers For Disease Control
1,656 wordsAIDS in Prisons With infectious diseases such as hepatitis, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) so prevalent in correctional settings, it is appropriate and timely that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) presented a workshop on the issue. "Infectious Disease in Corrections: A Centers for Disease Control Perspective" was moderated by Rob Lyerla, an epidemiologist for CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases. (Cass 34). In the past 20 years, the jail people in the United Stat...
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United States Department Bureau Of Justice Statistics
1,236 wordsOvercrowding in Jails Today, in America, some prisoners are living worse than some third world countries are for little crimes such as theft. The reason for that to happen is rather simple - too many prisoners and not enough room. This country needs to spend more money to build new prisons, or at least attempt to differentiate the people who have committed minor criminal offence (like shoplifting or vehicle theft) from those who appear to be murderers and other type of thugs. This differentiatio...
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Substance Abuse Treatment Alcohol And Drug
1,479 wordsJAIL BASED SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT PROGRAM Substance abuse and addiction have changed the nature of Americas prison population. Alcohol, drug abusers, addicts, and those who sell illegal drugs dominate state, federal prisons and local jails. Crime and alcohol and drug abuse go hand in hand. Much of the growth in Americas inmate population is due to incarceration of drug law violators. With appropriate treatment for substance abuse and addiction, rehabilitation is possible for many of todays pr...
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Bureau Of Justice Statistics Violent Offenders
1,343 wordsHello everyone, I am here to speak to you today about the Two Hundred Years of the Penitentiary project to increase public involvement in the discussion of correctional issues. More importantly, why we as citizens should be concerned about prison and jail overcrowding and the best approaches for remedying the crowding problem. One of America s biggest problems today is the overcrowding of our prisons. This is a problem we all should be concerned about. One reason why is because it is our tax dol...
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Human Behavior Federal Bureau
1,590 wordsEric Cavallari J. Foley Psychology 101 10 / 10 / 00 The Downward Spiral; Psychological Effects of Prisons I have visited some of the best and the worst prisons and have never seen signs of coddling, but I have seen the terrible results of the boredom and frustration of empty hours and pointless existence -former U. S. Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger If recent incarceration rates remain unchanged, an estimated 1 out of every 20 persons (5. 1 %) will serve time in a prison during their lifetim...
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Juvenile Offenders Adult Prisons
1,064 wordsPrison populations have been on the raise since the early 1970 s. Today we incarcerate over 2 million men, women and juveniles in the various correctional facilities around the country. These facilities can range from local jails or detention facilities to the new so called Superman prisons. Conditions can also vary across the spectrum for these different correctional institutions. Each type of inmate has his or her own challenges when faced with incarceration. Many factors play into determining...
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Solitary Confinement Commit Crimes
5,200 wordsPrison Reform in America In the essay Prison Reform in America, Roger T. Pray points out the much attention that has been devoted to research to help prevent crimes. Showing criminals the errors of their ways not by brutal punishment, but by locking them up in the attempt to reform them. Robert Pray, who is a prison psychologist, is currently a researcher with the Utah Dept. of Corrections. He has seen what has become of our prison system and easily shows us that there is really no such thing as...
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Bureau Of Justice Statistics Prison Gangs
1,815 wordsThe prisons in America seem to cause more problems than assistance in todays society. The countrys penal system is overcrowded, expensive, and some argue that is ineffective as well as inefficient. The costs to staff and support these facilities increase dramatically every year. Prisons, which are supposed to be correctional facilities, are currently filled with violence and hostility. These institutions are created to control crime by deterrence, incapacitating criminals, which protects society...
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State Of The Art Zero Sum
910 wordsPrisons Dont Work In our society, the dual purpose of imprisonment is punishment and / or rehabilitation. Throughout the states, there is an increased prison population. For example, more than 40 states prison systems are under court orders to rectify overcrowding. Some prisons have what is called a zero sum status. A zero sum status basically means if a prison receives a new inmate, it is required to release a current inmate. If prisons are meant to hold criminals and punish them for their acti...
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Criminal Justice System Higher Education
924 wordsDear House of Representatives, It has recently been brought to my attention that many citizens of the United States have been greatly concerned about the criminal justice system. These citizens are concerned that funding for federal prisons is taking away from the funding of schools and education for their children. I am going to make a proposal that will hopefully give you a few ideas on cutting prison funding to make way for the funding of schools. A major concern these citizens have is the ov...
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