...Rehabilitation Paper Luanne McKnight CJS/230 03/03/13 Edward Harris, MS Rehabilitation Paper According to an encyclopedia, rehabilitation means “to restore to useful life, as through education” or restored to good condition, operation, or capacity.” (Wikipedia) Prisoner rehabilitation has gone through many changes over the years. In 1871 the national Congress on prison and reformatory discipline believed “crime was a moral disease, of which punishment was the remedy.” (Foster, 2006) the rehabilitation error, which spanned from the mid-1950s through the middle of the 1970s only took place in a few prisons in the southern states. In 1970, the joint commission on correctional manpower and training developed the medical model. This program would focus on the inmates social, intellectual or emotional deficiencies and Taylor program to rehabilitate them. For most inmates, the rehabilitation error develops three basic functions: classification on entering the prison; assignment to an institution based on that classification; and require participation in varied specialized programs focusing on areas in which change could be targeted. (Foster, 2006) Social impact of punishment and rehabilitation are varied. The biggest concerns being the increasing cost of correctional facilities and the fear to families caused by the eventual release of criminals back into society. In many cases, the impact on the victims carries great concern. Victims’ rights, at times, are overshadowed...
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...DATE \@ "MMMM d, y" December 14, 2014 Rehabilitation Paper What is prisoner rehabilitation ? Rehabilitation is often considered a type of punishment for offenders , its actual objective are somewhat therapeutic rather then punitive. When someone commits a crime that calls for a prison sentence they are sent away for as long as the sentence calls for. Some see this as a way of the prisoner getting what they deserve for the crime did. Rehabilitation ideal sees the prisoner as having a disease that should be treated with methods available to the offender. Rehabilitation has been around for such along time but has often been questioned. The Elmira models is one of the pioneers of starting the rehabilitation process in their facility. This reformatory opened in 1876 in Chemung County, New York in the city of elmira. This was a key facility that led the way for the rehabilitation and for the facilities we have now. Rehabilitation I believe can help some prisoners but not all. Rehabilitation is a god way to help the individuals find them selfs and take time to think about what is right from wrong. Rehabilitation helps the prisoners to learn form the mistakes they made by having different programs available. These programs help to get the individuals ready to get back into society if their sentence allows them to. It helps them to function as a proper citizen in society so that they don't become a repeat offender. For the most part its hard to say if this works because...
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...the drive to want to better them. This paper will break down rehabilitation in prison and the origin of where it came from. Also we will discuss how parole differs from mandatory release and how probation differs from other forms of sentencing. We will also discuss community corrections and what it means and furthermore, we will critique the current rehabilitation options and if there are better options or solutions that may be used in today’s prison system. Rehabilitation means "to restore to useful life, as through therapy and education" or "to restore to good condition, operation, or capacity". The thought and purpose behind prison has been, throughout history, to deter criminals from committing crimes. Rehabilitation of prisoners has been classically second to punishing them for their crimes. As our society has changed through various civil rights movements, the rights and treatment of prisoners has become a paramount concern for many people. Classes and rehabilitation programs have sprung up in nearly every prison in the US. These programs however, have not been adequate to rehabilitate prisoners as dire sentences are seeing decreased implementation due to the battle over prisoners’ rights. Rehabilitation as a concept in our prisons needs a massive revision. In conjunction with revisions to rehabilitation, the implementation of dire consequences for repeat offenders could act to further reduce crime. The assumption of rehabilitation is that people are not permanently criminal...
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...Rehabilitation Paper Hope Washington CJS/230 Introduction to Corrections June 16, 2013 John Feltgen The goal of the prisoner's rehabilitation programs is to reform the prisoners from committing crimes and assisting them in starting normal lives without any criminal activities. Rehabilitation of criminals helps greatly in reducing the number of repeat offenders who return to jail after not being able to settle into a normal life outside the jail. Criminal rehab also helps in solving the issue of overcrowding in many prisons. The best rehabilitation programs for prisoner will not only be helpful for the criminal but also the society at great. Many people say that prisoners can’t be reformed and whatever punishment they get for their crimes, irrespective of that they always return to their old habits. After surveying it has been seen that after undergoing rehabilitation programs, many prisoners are reforming and returning to normal life. Despite its barbaric origins in the medieval dungeon and torture chamber, since the late 18th century prisons have combined elements of punishment with elements of rehabilitation. In 1779 the British Government passed the Penitentiary Act, which made the rehabilitation of criminals a function of all prisons. Since then, while imprisonment has remained the central form of punishment in the criminal justice system, the emphasis on correction rather than punishment has steadily increased. Rehabilitation techniques vary according to the nature...
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...Rehabilitation and AB109 Paper Denise Atkinson CJA/234 Joseph Dempsey October 17th, 2012 Rehabilitation and AB109 Paper Offenders are always punished in different ways. Fundamentally, this is in a bid to restore and enhance a desirable state of social cohesion. The characteristic rehabilitation refers to efforts geared toward enabling an individual too effectively to readapt to society and assume practices which are consistent with the societal rules and regulations. In his research, Gottschalk (2006) indicates that the origin of the practice of rehabilitative imprisonment can be traced in penitentiaries constructed at the close of the nineteenth century and were informed by biblical principles. Offenders left in solitude have a chance to reflect penitently over their felonies and are therefore likely to transform or cleanse themselves. With time, discipline, and hard labor were introduced in the practice to be partaken silently. This, according to the reformers helped the prisoners to meditate over their felonious practices. The rehabilitative efforts have undergone various changes and currently, most of them assume a more community based approach. The common method employed in this regard pertains to parole. Woodard (2011) defines parole as the release of an imprisoned offender who agrees to established rules even though he or she has to be closely monitored for a given period. This release is provisional and allows the offender to serve the remaining term from...
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...Rehabilitation Linda CJS/220 Neal Brumley Rehabilitation is programs that help a prisoner stop whatever addiction they have, or at least give them the education to help them stop. Alcohol treatment for an alcoholic, anger management treatment for someone whom has assaultive behavior, drug treatment for drug addicts and sexual treatment for a criminal that has committed a sexual crime. They also have classes for education so that a person could get their GED as well because some of these prisoners are just uneducated and criminal behavior is all they know. They also have religion which includes Bible study groups. All of these programs are there to help a prisoner so that when they are released the hope is they won’t continue their criminal behavior and they would be able to get employment in order to be a productive member of society. Rehabilitation came about because Warden Heinze who was the Warden at California’s Folsom Prison wanted programs to keep prisoners constructively occupied. He felt that if prisoners couldn’t work and they didn’t want them sitting idle, then programs were the answer. Political and correctional officials agreed with the assessment and rehabilitation got lots of support for a time. Rehabilitation in prison helps the prison because the prisoners are engaged in the programs and not sitting idle thinking of ways to cause trouble or riots which was what was happening before programs were added. This also helps society because the hope is when...
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...Parole and Mandatory Release Lillie Lawrence CJS/230 April 14, 2012 Parole is a mode of release for prisoners after imprisonment. When prisoners serve most of their sentence they become eligible for parole review. Parole was developed by Brockway Zebulon 1876. Brockway intent for parole was to lessen jail overcrowding, was a form of act against penitentiaries, and rehabilitate prisoners. Parole was made known in America in 1863, and New York Hubbell in 1863 (Foster, 2006). Mandatory release is depends on the credit for time served plus good time. A prisoner is given parole under the mandatory release rules after the individual has served close to 85 percent of their sentence and has had good behavior while incarcerated. At the completion of the sentence or at the sound judgment of the parole board and does not consider good behavior time is when parole is granted (Foster, 2006). There are eight steps in the mandatory release polices: (1) a prisoner and their attorney files an application for parole; (2) a parole officer prepares a file; (3) the inmate, parole board members, institutional parole officer, and stenographers attends a parole hearing; (4) the full parole meets in Washington, D.C. this is when the disposition of the hearing is attended ; (5) when the prisoner is given the terms of parole, a volunteer advisor is assigned to the parolee then the parolee is prepared for release; (6) a federal parole officer supervises the parolee for the remaining portion of the...
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...Community Corrections Paper Michael Kilgore CJS/230 June 30, 2013 Darren Brodsky Community Corrections Paper Abstract This paper will be discussing how community corrections can affect society. I will lend my input about community corrections and the effectiveness it has on the system. I will describe prison systems in other countries, as well as how these other nation’s view and practice imprisonment. I will discuss the possibilities that could happen if the U.S. prison system adopted a system from another country. I will make recommendations on the type of community corrections, that if implemented would hopefully be a success in the communities. Community Corrections What are community corrections? Community correction (known as probation or parole) is the means of supervising individuals outside of any type of correctional confinement. There has been a common misconception among Americans that when someone is convicted of a crime, they will be removed from society and placed in a correctional institution (Foster, 2006). Community corrections can be a benefit to an individual who is placed on probation, because it gives them a second chance to once again become a productive citizen of society. Community correction varies from state to state and county to county and was decentralized under the control of local courts (Foster, 2006). Currently, there are programs available as alternatives to incarceration such as state run programs, or county run programs that are...
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...Federal Prison Comparison Team A CJA/234 Robin Marmon-Instructor September 22, 2014 There are many different types of prisons and federal penitentiaries throughout the Unites States of America and many of them are l out differently but all possess similar regulations as far as visiting, employment and rehabilitative services are concerned. It makes no difference if; you are young or old in age, have medical issues, race or ethnicity, if you commit a crime you are going to serve time in some type of correctional facility or be state property in some form such as; probation or parole. The type of correctional facility that you will be sent to really depends on the level of crime you commit. If it is a superior level crime you will be sent to a correctional facility but if it is a federal offense you will be set to a federal correctional facility which will each have a different level of security based on how extensive the crime is that you committed. Here is an example of a variety of different federal penitentiaries. General Manuel Noriega, former Panamanian Dictator from 1983 to 1989. Noriega is no ordinary man, after High School he had military preparation at Chorizos Military Academy in Peru. In 1962 graduated with an engineering degree. In 1967, he received counterintelligence training at the School of the Americas at Fort Gulick, when it was located in the U.S. Army base in Panama. Later he was also trained in psychological operations at Fort Bragg, North Carolina...
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...The Purpose and History of Penitentiaries By: Jeremy Rice Imprisonment as a form of criminal punishment only became widespread in the United States just before the American Revolution, though penal incarceration efforts had been ongoing in England since as early as the 1500s, and prisons in the form of dungeons and various detention facilities had existed since long before then. Prison building efforts in the United States came in three major waves. The first began during the Jacksonian Era and led to widespread use of imprisonment and rehabilitative labor as the primary penalty for most crimes in nearly all states by the time of the American Civil War. The second began after the Civil War and gained momentum during the Progressive Era, bringing a number of new mechanisms—such as parole, probation, and indeterminate sentencing—into the mainstream of American penal practice. Finally, since the early 1970s, the United States has engaged in a historically unprecedented expansion of its imprisonment systems at both the federal and state level. Since 1973, the number of incarcerated persons in the United States has increased five fold, and in a given year 7 million persons are under the supervision or control of correctional services in the United States. These periods of prison construction and reform produced major changes in the structure of prison systems and their missions, the responsibilities of federal and state agencies for administering and supervising them, as well...
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...juveniles, the law enforcement officials, and the public alike. One of the first changes Delaware can take to make their juvenile justice system stand out from other states is to remove the mandatory rules to charge some juveniles as adults. Currently, only four other states do not utilize mandatory rules for sentencing juveniles as adults (Trying Juveniles as Adults, 1998). This may seem like an easy way out for some juveniles who have committed more serious offenses, but it’s important to remember that these juveniles are, in fact, still juveniles. They haven’t fully developed mentally, physically, psychologically, etc., and it’s unreasonable to charge them as adults for crimes that they have committed as juveniles. Focusing on rehabilitation for our juveniles should be a main priority, not locking them away for years on end and depriving them of services such as substance abuse counseling and psychological therapy programs that they would immensely benefit from. Another recommendation that could help Delaware’s juvenile justice system is to expand the civil citation program. The Civil Citation program was initially implemented in Leon County, Florida, and the goal of this program is to hold the juvenile offender accountable for their actions by providing an alternative to...
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...The goal of nutrition therapy is nutritional rehabilitation. Registered Dieticians consider the facts the impact food intake including, lifestyle, socioeconomic factors, interpersonal relationships, trauma history, self-esteem, substance abuse, and participation in sports. It is a step-by-step process whereby the client gradually increases his or her calorie intake so that the body has enough fuel. It cannot be too excessive; otherwise, it may be too much for the heart to handle. Nutrition counsellors identify the root cause of the eating disorder, work to restore the self-schema, and then set realistic and achievable nutrition-related goals. If clients encounter interpersonal difficulties, a sense of not belonging, or feel unsafe, they become...
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...CJS 230 Week 8 Assignment 4 Rehabilitation paper Professor Anthony Nici April 21, 2013 Rehabilitation is a word that is used often within the corrections, in the prison setting. It is an attempt to change an individual attitude and behavior. There are programs that are to prevent habitual offenders, help a criminal get to their normal state of mind and not to be punishing for their action that may cause the criminal to change and become an outstanding citizen that follows the rules instead of the individual getting out and committing another crime. Throughout the years there has been many processes created to form rehabilitation process of criminal justice. The process has helped many offenders by allowing him/her to return within their community as a changed individual. Rehabilitation is a specific program that is applied within a prison setting to bring the end of a criminal behavior called desistance, the meaning to cease and stop. It is supposed to be a formula of, prisoner classification X appropriate programming X positive participation= probability of desistance. An inmate getting into the right program would keep them long enough in order to complete the program successfully, once the program has been completed then the inmate can be put in the community so that their behavior would be tested as a non-criminal behavior. There are some facilities that offer rehab, religion, and anger management (Foster, 2006). In the twentieths century it was believed that prison...
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...The paper of punishment versus rehabilitation 504 9/7/2015 William Miller The paper of punishment versus rehabilitation With the judicial system, of the United States several tactic methods of punishments use punishment with retribution, rehabilitation, public safety continues with prevention and fiscal. With the United States criminal justice, the system feels that punishment is better for retribution methods. In the current society, the criminal justice uses four methods; of punishment, it will stop the crime from happening. Certain individuals, within the community, think that these punishments are harsh on people although each punishment obtains their distinctiveness. The punishment also rehabilitation its efficiency Many individuals feel that rehabilitation has taken a back seat, to take charge of criminal activity at this current time. The process obtains punishment, will be a prison sentence as a general role. It is a certain way begins overpopulation within the prison, will have a specific impact on the rates criminal activity. Because of the specific way in the United States, the inmate’s population has an increase in amount two million individual in the corrections system. Within the 25 years earlier creates a large sum of research literature, which said the general cause to criminal conduct the certain discovery of the research thinks. That people concept to stop criminal activity will have to obtain the...
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...Compare and Contrast of Being a Counselor CNSL/205 09/13/2011 Dr. Katherine Van Hull University of Phoenix This paper was written to inform the reader of the compiled information that is a compare and contrast between myself and what has been predetermined as traits of being a good counselor. This paper is going to include information that was compiled from two different sources of information regarding this topic, and once this information has been compiled I, compared it to myself to see if the information gathered and my personality have some similarities. In order to be a good counselor it was determined that the counselor must first establish a two way street when it comes to talking about the things that are bothering the client. I will take both the counselor and the client to first agree that there will be changes no matter how hard they seem to be and that these changes to help better the relationship and the client. There also must be some sort of understanding between the counselor and his/her clients regarding what is expected by both the counselor and the client; both the clients and counselor also must establish a good chemistry in order for them to make any type of progress. If the patient is unable to establish any type of chemistry then the client has the opportunity to look for someone who he/she will feel comfortable with in order to be able to start their journey to healing. Even though the client is responsible for making the...
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