Overcrowding In Prisons

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    Prisons in the United States

    com/magazine/archive/1998/12/the-prison-industrial-complex/4669/2/ GEO Group Argument that private sector can handle prisons better and cheaper than the government Somethings should not be for profit http://core.ecu.edu/soci/juskaa/SOCI2110/Prison_Industrial_Complex.htm http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Prison_System/Masked_Racism_ADavis.html http://www.prisonsucks.com/ Paper Topic: The Prison Industrial Complex [Name of Writer] [Name of Professor] [Course Title] [Date] Prison Industrial

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    Corrections Accreditation and Privatization

    facilities, today, operate on standards that would be unheard of in the past. The jails and prison of the past lacked a certain sense of humanity and an ability to show society that the prison was a place of reformation rather than condemnation. The standards for which correctional facilities follow come from the Commission on Accreditation in Corrects (CAC). The CAC developed the standards followed in today’s prisons. Accreditation officially began in 1978, jointly administered by the CAC and the American

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    Sensitizzation of Prisons

    SENSITIZATION OF PRISONS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO WOMEN Prisons are less sensitive to the psychological needs of women. There is a growing need for gender sensitization of the prison system. This paper essentially deals with the dilemmas faced by women prisoners in India due to the lack of gender sensitization in Indian jails. Any major program related to well-being of prisoners is focused on men, ignoring the women inmates in prisons all over the nation. The main areas of problems include the

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    Harrisonburg-Rockingham County: Case Study

    offenders, less than 50% had at least one prior felony conviction and nearly 1/3 had two or more prior felony convictions. The programs and treatment options not currently offered, even if minimally effective, can help to reduce the problem of overcrowding (Council of State Governments Justice Center, 2014). When considering many factors associated with repeat incarceration such as low levels of education, unemployment concerns and substance abuse issues, it is clear that the population at Rockingham-Harrisonburg

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    Jails and Prisons

    Jail and Prisons Jail and prisons have played a huge role in our history. While at times we might not think about it, jails and prisons are a huge reason why America isn’t in utter chaos. Over the years jails and prisons have grown to get to the level they are today. What was once an unsanitary, careless, and at times cruel prison or jail is now a more sophisticated well developed correction center that are meant to shape the behavior of an offender and rehabilitate the offender. Jails are

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    Yankee

    Throughout history Elderly Offenders Behind Bars While Reducing the Cost Over time offenders that have been sent to correctional institutions in the United States are sometimes forced to live out the rest of their lives behind bars, in the end causing overcrowding in facilities, increase numbers of aging prisoners and tax payers millions of dollars (Aday, 1994). In 2008 alone, the cost for correctional systems for federal, state, and local systems was $75 billion, much of it spent on older inmates (Warner

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    My Paper Private Prisons

    Privizaitonal of prison bail system certain amount of money as bond return to you when you show for trail you have great you don’t big trouble. Pay the bail or await the trial in jail. You may say no big deal but for the many that don’t have the money the question becomes “what do you do, what do you do when the requested amount of money you don’t have and you can’t get it from any other means you have to go to jail. You have to spend time in the prison system or the county jail awaiting trial for

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    Institutional Aggression

    focuses on the personality characteristics that prison inmates take into the prison with them. For example inmates with values, attitudes, experiences, and social norms that tend towards violent behaviour towards other people will be more likely to engage in interpersonal violence than inmates with less violent personalities and experiences. Often it is younger inmates that tend to behave violently as they are more likely to find it harder to adjust to prison life, and may therefore engage in more conflicts

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    Juvenile Crime

    house these juveniles in a separate facility. 3 Statement of the Problem The rapid growing violence committed by juveniles is at all-time high, Juveniles are now being trialed as adults awaiting to be transferred over to adult prisons when reach the age 18 years old. The problem that exist with the juvenile courts is that a policy must be enforced that allows violent youthful offenders to be housed at a facility that offers more reform programs in order to prepare them for adulthood

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    Development of Corrections

    Corrections Development of Corrections Men, women, and juveniles were all held in the same prisons in the United States prior to 1800. They were all treated the same and they were cramped and were expected to do work like laundry, cooking, and cleaning. The Indiana State Reformatory built a separate prison for women in 1873 and then Massachusetts and New York followed shortly after. The women prisons were built in a different design giving them a more spacious environment and better commodities

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