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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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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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Good Or Evil Order To Create
1,732 wordsThe freedom of choice and the rehabilitating form of corrections encase the realm of A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess. It produces the question about man's free will and the ability to choose one's destiny, good or evil. "If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange-meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with color and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or State" (Burgess ix). Burgess expresses t...
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Juvenile Justice System Juvenile Delinquency
2,206 wordsJuvenile Delinquency and Status Offenses in Girls: Prevention and Intervention Introduction Much attention has been given to the issue of male juvenile delinquency, while delinquency in girls is often underestimated. In fact, female juvenile offenders display an understudied and often misunderstood population within the juvenile justice system (Peters 76). The juvenile justice system that traditionally has examined the anti-social delinquent behavior in males has been recently challenged with th...
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Prison Guards Drug Offenders
1,886 words... are experimenting with "re-entry courts" that oversee the process of reintegration. In these courts, conditions of supervision are openly agreed to and openly enforced. If a new crime is committed, all bets are off and the parolee is prosecuted for the new crime. But violations of the conditions of parole - the technical violations that now fill up the state's prisons - are handled more along the lines of drug courts, with appropriate support services, close judicial monitoring, graduated sa...
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Job Related Stress Correctional Officers
1,073 wordsThe number of correctional institutions has been increased during the last decades. The reason is the increase of imprisonment level. The correction officers realize that their works is highly responsible and risky. The paper provides the analysis of five empirical articles related to the topic and identifies the job-related stress during working. Corrections The guideline of this paper is to provide critical analyze of the five give articles and to point out what problems they are dealing with....
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Mentally Ill Hiv Infected
1,349 wordsThe work is devoted to the discussion of the main problems and challenges, which exist in the modern corrections system in the USA. The problems which will be addressed in the paper will be the HIV among inmates, especially women-inmates, mental diseases in prisons and drugs abuse; they are interrelated and the discussion of these problems will be based on the six articles (see the References list) Prison Adaptation The six articles have been grouped together as being related to the same general...
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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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One Of The Most Popular Electronic Monitoring
1,592 wordsElectronic Monitoring Today Electronic monitoring has emerged as one of the most popular forms of community corrections in the United States today. Electronic monitoring began and / or was first used in approximately 1984. Today, approximately 12, 000 - 15, 000 offenders or participants are being monitored on a daily basis. The electronic monitoring equipment used today allows us to determine if a monitored participant is in his / her required place at the proper time. When I speak of electronic...
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Violent Criminals Prison Overcrowding
948 wordsEvery House Arrest House Arrest Every year, state and federal prisons are filled to capacity with nonviolent criminals. This puts pressure on parole boards to release criminals who under normal circumstances would not be released due to the nature of their crimes. Each States Department of Corrections has to spend more of taxpayers money each year for prison maintenance, correctional officers and prison healthcare. The problem of prison over population can easily be put under control with the im...
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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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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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Thousand Dollars Twenty Minutes
1,342 wordsAlcatraz Island was opened from 1934 to 1963. At that time it was the last stop in the federal penitentiary pipeline. It housed famous criminals such as Al Scarface Capone, George Machine Gun Kelly, and Robert Stroud, The Birdman of Alcatraz (American Automobile Association 81). The warden, James Johnston, turned it into such a brutal place that even the most hardened criminals started calling it Hellcatraz. That raises the question was Alcatraz s brutality essential, or just plain cruel? Locate...
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