United States Prison System: The War on Drugs The United States of America is no longer the home of the free. It is the home of the locked up and caged. How can this nation embrace the concept of freedom when over 2.4 million of its citizens are locked up in prison? How can Americans have the nerve to utter the words, “racial equality” when over 10% of all African-American men is incarcerated? How can we take pride in a nation that locks up its citizens that suffer from the disease
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creates a weakening of the constitutional right to a speedy trial because cases are pushed back and rescheduled (Cavan, 2010). The back log of cases in the criminal justice system it creates a public safety issue, with more criminals remaining in prison
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the criminal justice system. It is used as an alternative to imprisonment. The United States costs have risen in the last twenty years, these costs have come from building more jails and prisons. Policy makers needed to come up with a solution that could help cut these costs, and also stop overcrowding in prisons. Many states are on community- based corrections now. So the question is how can evidence-based practices in community corrections effectively manage offenders without compromising safety
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Tuberculosis Kyndall Scribner HCA/240 6/24/2012 Deborah Branham Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is a bacterial infection and is often found in the lungs. It can spread through the lymph nodes and bloodstream to any organ in one’s body. Many diseases like Tuberculosis are caused by various strains of mycobacteria; which in this case would be Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. Normally, this bacterium stays latent or inactive, but only a handful of people will ever have the active disease. Most people
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that criminality, rather than being caused by evil or some higher beings, was actually the result of the bad choices people make of their own free will. The other competing theories of corrections besides the Classical School, prevalent in today’s prison system are retribution, deterrence, restorative justice, and rehabilitation. According to the Classical School theory, the punishment should fit the crime equally. Meaning, that the punishment a person is given should equally fit the seriousness
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was generally accepted to use prisoners as research subjects for testing medicines, drugs, and medical devices without regard to the risks, benefits, and rights of those individuals. As documented in Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison (Hornblum 1998), prisoners were used in lieu of laboratory animals to test the toxicity of cosmetics. In other experiments, prisoners were irradiated in research conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission, rendering some sterile and others badly burned
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criminal justice system face these dilemmas just as much as any other job. Even though they are obliged to follow a strict set of rules and guidelines everyday. In their daily jobs whether they are making an arrest, prosecuting a case, or running a prison they are faced with decisions that may put their ethics/morals into question. In these decisions they must first decide on what is the right thing to do and if the right thing to do is within their code of ethics. However they also need to look into
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is always federally illegal, even if it is legal in any particular state. Medical marijuana must be legalized primarily because of its medicinal contribution, also to cut down on the amount of nonviolent offenders that are causing overcrowding in American jails and prisons, and for the monetary impact it will have on our economy. Medical marijuana has been proven to be effective in the treatment of physical, and mental health problems. “Some of the compounds commonly abused today are accepted
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one of the harshest policies around the world since implemented in the early 1980s (Winterbourne, 2012). Research suggest The war on drugs “creates problems for broken families, increased poverty, racial disparities, and wasted tax dollars, prison overcrowding and eroded civil liberties” (We are Drug Policy Alliance, 2014). Former President Richard Nixon and his administration initiated the policy. According to research, under the current policy the number of arrests, convictions, and incarceration
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illnesses can receive outpatient therapy and medication. Access problems still exist, however, with many mental health services not being covered by insurance. Those with severe mental illnesses often do not fare well, even now. Many are relegated to prison or face homelessness. Many are afraid to seek treatment, while those who do are often discriminated against. There is still a stigma attached to mental illness, though it is nowhere near as severe as in the age of routine eugenic sterilization. While
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