Essay: "What Makes a Good Prison Guard" by Timothy N. Baker Some of the most difficult professions we have today are those that require us to take care of our fellow man in some form or another and correctional officers are at the top of that list. You have some very intelligent inmates in our prisons today who have some morals and then you have some out right psychopaths, but the vast majority of our prisoners today are ordinary people who have made a mistake and some how have got caught up
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been a steady reorganization and expansion of inmate industries within Canadian federal corrections. The CORCAN Corporation was created in 1980 to serve as the production and marketing arm of the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). Currently, CORCAN programs operate in over half of the federal correctional facilities across Canada, employing 4000 offenders throughout the year (CSC, 2001). CORCAN currently operates five main business lines: Agribusiness, Construction, Manufacturing, Services and Textiles
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Introduction 3 Population of Mentally Ill Inmates in the Correctional Facilities 3 Mentally ill inmates: The Cost 4 The Treatment of Mentally Ill Inmates 6 Selection Process for Mentally Ill Inmates 7 Isolation and Restraints 9 Conclusion 11 References 12 Introduction When a person thinks about a correction facility many only think that there is only regular criminals that are perfectly well, but what they neglect to know is that it is also housed with mentally ill inmates as well.
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According to the Course Text there is a consideration of constitutional law and prisoners’ rights such as civil rights of prisoners, the prisons and jails must operate under the law to be able to successfully take care of the inmates by which they house within their facilities, they have to teach and educate each officer on all levels of the understanding of the constitution, and not only for the guiding and maintaining a safe environment and implementing the proper rules and regulations when it
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Project: Managing the Prison Environment Objectives Back to Top The Course Project is designed to provide you with an opportunity to research a topic of interest related to some aspect of correctional administration. This project is an effort to allow you to fully explore issues related to either correctional officials or prison inmates. This project incorporates all TCOs. Guidelines Back to Top The course project is worth 320 total points and will be graded on APA formatting; quality of research
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them, the correctional officer. “There has never been a question about the stress associated with caring for individuals who have tremendous animosity towards you.” (The ethics of caring for those who hate you, 2006) A correctional officer is held to a higher standard than the average public. Correctional officers at all times are expected to be respectful, and impartial to all prisoners. Regardless of personal beliefs about a prisoners charges or an individual prisoner, correctional officers must
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of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services is to ensure the safety of our staff and the incarcerated offenders in our care. That we have been able to drive down department-wide serious assaults on our correctional officers by 60 percent since FY 2007 is evidence of that, as is the 53 percent drop in inmate serious assaults during that time. We've lowered total assaults on staff by 34 percent at North Branch Correctional Institution since 2009, its first full-year of operation
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MAJOR ARTICLE Implementing a Large-Scale Systematic Tuberculosis Screening Program in Correctional Facilities in South Africa Vincent Zishiri,1 Salome Charalambous,1,2 Maunank R. Shah,2 Violet Chihota,1 Liesl Page-Shipp,1 Gavin J. Churchyard,1,2 and Christopher J. Hoffmann1,3 1 The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa; 2School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; and 3Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland Downloaded
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Week Three Read Me First Correctional Policy and Procedures INTRODUCTION For centuries, societies had no trouble stating that the purpose of sentencing was punishment and that punishment was retribution. With the Age of Enlightenment and utilitarian thinking, society recognized three additional goals: deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation. The relative importance of these goals became tied to conservative, liberal, or radical ideology. In assuming management of a prison, wardens
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Victimization Survey and The Bureau of Labor Statistic III WORKPLACE VIOLENCE A LAW ENFORCEMENT ISSUE • Responsibility of Law Enforcement • The impact and ramification • The direction of Law Enforcement IV WORKPLACE VIOLENCE A CORRECTIONAL ISSUE • Correctional facilities a breathing ground for violence • Domestic violence to workplace violence • Introduction of a new program V WORKPLACE VIOLENCE A PRIVATE SECURITY ISSUE • The direction of Professional security • The scope of Professional
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