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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
1,649 wordsPrivately owned prisons began to emerge in the mid- 1980 s. These prisons emerged because of the ideological imperatives of the free market, the huge increase in the number of prisoners, and the substantial increase in imprisonment costs. (1) Proponents of privatized prisons put forward a simple case: The private sector can do it cheaper and more efficiently. Corporations such as Correction Corporation of America and Wackenhut promised design and management innovations without reducing costs or ...
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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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Solitary Confinement Committing Crimes
599 wordsThe Canadian Correctional System is adequate in providing rehabilitation for offenders and is proven to be successful. The rehabilitation process for federal offenders has played a major roll in Canada for several years. The Correctional Service contributes to the protection of society by actively encouraging and assisting offenders to become law-abiding citizens. For the last several years, the Correctional Service of Canada has been involved in a review process to ensure that its programs are ...
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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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San Francisco Bay Correctional Officers
1,087 wordsAlcatraz was a famous federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. The island stands on 12 acres of solid rock, and Alcatraz was often called The Rock. More than one mile of water separates it from the mainland. The Island received its name in 1775 when Spanish explorer Juan Manuel de Ayala charted the San Francisco Bay and named it La Isla de Los Alcatraces, which translated to "Island of the Pelicans. " The small-uninhabited island had little going for it with its swift currents, mi...
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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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Correctional Facility Vast Majority
958 wordsRegular Family Visits The family is probably this countrys most valuable weapon in fighting crime. Prisoners who receive visitors, maintain family ties, and are released to a stable home environment are more likely to succeed in leading productive, crime-free lives. Arguably, psychosocial regression is the fate of the vast majority of the prisoners. It is unlikely anyone would escape the common lot, as, according to the researchers, the insignificant minority of the prisoners manages to control ...
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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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Strengths And Weaknesses Prison Labor
1,233 wordsCorrections Population Why were these articles grouped together the way they were? That is, what do the articles have in common, and how do they inform each other? These articles were grouped together because they had the common thread of violence within the correctional system that is now a national concern. Penitentiary drew attention to the potential for death and destruction that lurks in every prison. It seems that the locus of control in many prisons shifted from correctional staff to viol...
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Wackenhut Corrections Corporation The Truth Behind Private Prisons
2,974 wordsWackenhut Corrections Corporation - the truth behind private prisons Within the conceptual framework of this research, we will elaborate on Wackenhut Corrections Corporation, a private prison system that is nowadays notorious for numerous human rights abuse cases. History of Wackenhut Corrections Corporation as well as its owner will be briefly discussed, followed by detailed elaboration on numerous problems that Wackenhut Corrections Corporation experienced. After careful research, it is appare...
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Correctional Officers Correctional Facility
971 wordsCAREER RESEARCH REPORT The career I have chosen to pursue after graduation is a Correctional Officer. Correctional Officer? s have been around for a very long time and were designed to keep major offenders off the street after they have been arrested by the Police. The offenders are put in a holding cell at a Pre Trial Centre awaiting their court date. Correctional Officers are a very important part of the Justice System because it keeps high profile criminals off the street and locked up even b...
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Correctional Facilities Gender Race
3,763 wordsWhy are crime rates higher among some social groups than the others? Are some groups more prone to crime, or are they in situations more conducive to crime? Many factors can influence a person to commit a crime, but is there a common trait that leads people down the road to actually committing a crime. Some traits that can influence criminal behavior are: Families, Economic status, Gender, Race, and Age. FAMILIES: MARRIAGE Married life domesticates but also can cause strain and difficulties. The...
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Death Row Inmates Imprisonment Without Parole
3,969 wordsMead Shumway of Nebraska, was convicted of the first degree murder of his employers wife on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to death by jury. His last words before his execution were: I am an innocent man. May God forgive everyone who said anything against me. The next year, the victims husband confessed on his deathbed that he [the husband] had murdered his [own] wife (Radelet, Bedau, Putnam 347). There are an uncertain numerous amount of incidents similar to the one depicted above, that ...
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Substance Abuse Treatment Criminal Justice System
2,954 wordsUse federal tax dollars to fund these therapeutic communities in prisons. I feel that if we teach these prisoners some self-control and alternative lifestyles that we can keep them from reentering the prisons once they get out. I am also going to describe some of today? s programs that have proven to be very effective. Gottfredson and Hirschi developed the general theory of crime. It According to their theory, the criminal act and the criminal offender are separate concepts. The criminal act is ...
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Suicidal Tendencies Suicide Attempt
1,480 wordsThe United States is plagued by a countless number of social dilemmas. Although not in constant public scrutiny, suicide is a serious problem which has seemed to have lost importance. When suicide is coupled with arrest and incarceration it becomes an increasingly complex situation. In fact, research indicates that the jail suicide rate ranges from 2. 5 to 13 times greater than the rate of the general population (Winkler 1992). Motivation, prediction, and prevention of suicidal behavior are gros...
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Prisoners Of War Dining Hall
2,552 wordsPrisons were virtually non existent before the 1700 s; prison was not considered a serious punishment for crime, and was seldom used. Instead, governments imprisoned people who were awaiting trial or punishment whereupon they would receive the more common capital or corporal types of punishment. Common punishments at that time included branding, imposing fines, whipping and the death penalty (capital punishment). The authorities punished most offenders in public in order to discourage people fro...
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Traumatic Stress Disorder Post Traumatic Stress
816 wordsIt seems that the public never tires of watching and hearing stories of fictional police / correctional officers. But when it comes to the real lives of police / correctional officers, we need to look deep into what these police / correctional officers face in every day life. And how that posttraumatic stress is handled after an incident has occurred. But before we can look at the posttraumatic stress we need to look at the first step of the ladder, which would be stress. Stress is defined as a ...
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Correctional Facilities Gang Involvement
3,243 wordsOnce inside, I was walked through a gauntlet of desperate men. Their hot smell in the muggy corridor was as foul as their appearance. None of them seemed to have a full set of front teeth. Many bore prominently displayed tattoos of skulls or demons. One could argue whether it was the look of these men that led them to prison or whether it was the prison that gave them their look. Just looking at them made me fear for my life (Hassine, 7). Most inmates in correctional facilities felt the way that...
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Correctional Officers Private Prisons
3,201 wordsPrivately owned prisons began to emerge in the mid- 1980 s. These prisons emerged because of the ideological imperatives of the free market, the huge increase in the number of prisoners, and the substantial increase in imprisonment costs. (1) Proponents of privatized prisons put forward a simple case: The private sector can do it cheaper and more efficiently. Corporations such as Correction Corporation of America and Wackenhut promised design and management innovations without reducing costs or ...
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