everything else . . . you just assume everybody’s got it.“ (Miller et al, 2013). Correctional services across the country, all struggle with different types of harm, towards the inmates and the staff. According to a study done by Small, et al. (2005), 40% of federal inmates reported that they have used illicit illegal drugs while in prison and 11% of the illicit drug use was from injection drug use. In Correctional Health Care Services, it is important to analyze how prisons implement harm reduction
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Correctional officer Rayshawn Morsby was nabbed infiltrating “cigarettes” to the incarceration facility he was employed. There is no specific reasons why the correctional officers smuggle “cigarettes inside the facility. He was captured dumping empty boxes of cigarettes. According to the information Morsby successfully exceed several security checkpoints until he was detected packages of tobacco wrapped in electrical tape. There is limited information regarding any other substances that the ex-correctional
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373 jail correctional officers in one state in the Northwest area. This study advances the literature on the workplace experiences of correctional officers by focusing on officers who work in a jail setting. The results indicate that for jail correctional officers in this study, a lower level of education, greater supervisory support, lower job stress and lower general stress were significant predictors of higher job satisfaction. The majority of the studies done on correctional officers are
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Criminal justice programs around the world face various challenges especially in rehabilitating the behavior of inmates within correctional facilities. The purpose of this research paper will be to assess the various issues that exist in rehabilitative programs within prison systems. Basically, rehabilitation programs are used to correct and rehabilitate criminal offenders so that they can emerge as useful members of society once they complete their prison sentences. Some of the rehabilitation programs
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idea of quality of the plan versus quantity of sessions required with all individuals in correctional institutions across the United States. In the past two decades, the numbers of individuals within the correctional systems across the United States has skyrocketed. In 2004, the jump in population caused the total population to reach “a new high in this country with almost 6.9 million offenders under correctional control” (Lowenkamp, Latessa, & Smith. 575). While this represented only a 2% increase
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The title correctional officers already hold power because they are enlisted superior over inmates. Enforcing a form of corrections can create its battles, especially when correctional officers assume they should have inmates’ full cooperation. On the other hand, inmates demand respect too because just like correctional officers, they are human also. The demand of receiving and giving respect can certainly ensue a power struggle between correctional officers and inmates. As a correctional officer,
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Pennsylvania Correctional System Network Project Daniel Stanley Strayer University Pennsylvania Correctional System Network Project This proposal is for a data communication network to serve the Pennsylvania Correctional system. The Pennsylvania legislature recently approved funding sufficient to pay for the development of this proposal. Pending proposal acceptance by the Pennsylvania State Correctional Office of Technology (a department within the state Office of Corrections), funding will
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Correctional philosophies were adopted from the past philosophies used to maintain a safe and effective correctional facility. More correctional facilities try and become a rehabilitation facility and fail because of the lack of training for the officers regarding mental health and issues in the prison systems (Correctional Philosophies and Practices, 2007). Federal correctional facilities have maintained the code of safety and a well-run security. There are two different types of correctional
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of mentally ill inmates has been not only a public concern, but has also been identified by Canada’s Correctional Investigator, Howard Sapers as an issue of concern in his 2014 report to parliament. Between 1997 and 2007, offenders entering the prison system with a mental disorder grew 71% in men and 61% in women (Canadian Mental Health Association, 2012). The problem at hand is that correctional institutes and their staff are not widely trained to deal with inmates who suffer from mental disorders
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Correctional Officers Patricia Johnson CRJ 303 Prof. Lott April 18, 2012 Correctional Officers The life of a corrections officer is and can be very dangerous. Corrections officers have to deal with hundreds of inmates on a daily bases and ensure that each inmate is safe and secure while under their supervision. Being a corrections officer can also be very stressful and dangerous. They are not only concern with their safety, but the safety of other officers, visitors, and the inmates. This
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