PRIVATE PRISON CORPORATION OF AMERICA Nowadays, we are facing a major experiment in privatization. For example, private companies have entered the business of managing public schools, or religious schools. Also, they even run in prison industry. Among them is Private Prison Corporation of America, which is growing fast in prison industry in the United States. Especially, immigration detention business has brought up massive profit for Private Prison of America. Therefore, corporation is planning
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punishing, protecting and correcting the criminal offender. In America, the government agencies work together with correction systems to ensure that these responsibilities are met. Also referred to as the penal system, the correctional system is charged with the duty of administering jurisdictions, especially to community based programs, parole and probation victims. This paper is a description of the history of correctional systems in America and discusses two needs that require to be fixed so that correction
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it was introduced in the “supermax” prison system which begin in the mid-1980’s. (ICCPR Treaty Summary 2012). Prisoners are kept in a small, windowless cell for 22 to 24 hours a day, with minimal contact with family, guards, even lawyers. The number of prisoners currently in solitary confinement is estimated to be around 80,000 through the number is continuing to grow faster than the overall prison population, meaning that this is coming a normal thing for prisons. Many people will say that the first
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Prison Overcrowding is a Financial Burden John Doe AIU Online Abstract This paper explores the causes of why not enough inmates are getting the rehabilitation needed to succeed outside prison walls. It may be a lot cheaper to provide them with programs than to house them for minor offences. Lastly, this paper will look at the cost effects of housing these prisoners and what kind of programs are offered while prisoners are serving their time. Without the proper rehabilitation
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The American Prison System is a topic not many want to talk about, with it being compared to modern day slavery and it known mistreatment of inmates it a very sensitive topic. What once seemed like a great idea to help separate the innocent from the guilty is now being seen as failing to do its intended job. It seems that it no longer matters how innocent you are but more so how rich, how influential, how famous, how white you are. Some say that the American Prison System is legalized slavery targeting
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Purpose and History Chris Souza CJA/234 May 5, 2014 Moore When you think of the purpose of prison, what comes to mind? To house some of the world’s most notorious criminals? To rehabilitate those who has seen the evil of their own ways? Or has America's melting pot of philosophies has made it difficult to manage societal institutions? Throughout this paper the discussion of how the history of prison development was established. The history of punishment for those who committed their crimes will
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topic that all five of us found interesting, but we finally conceded on the topic of prison reform. Next, we had to determine if the topic of prison reform was relevant. So we researched prisons to be more informed about it, we found out that the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. This fact alone made our group question the efficacy of our country's prison system. The topic of prison reform was highly researchable, since there was a plethora
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The documentary I chose to watch for this assignment was the film 13th. The film, which entails the discussion of the 13th amendment, talks about the racial inequality in America and the rising prison incarceration rates that have resulted due to many factors, such as the vagueness of the 13th amendment. The film includes a variety of speakers to discuss the issue. One of the claims made by a speaker was the claim that the 1915 film “Birth of a Nation” was almost directly responsible for the rebirth
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Incarceration In the U.S. Incarceration in America is a seriously flawed system. Now, crime is bad; bad things happen to good people, and that’s terrible, something should be done about it. This is not always done properly in the U.S. These wars on crime, wars on drugs, they are wars on people; the smart political move is to appear tough on crime because crime is scary, so we increased minimum sentences, we arrested more people, we sent more of them to prison. That's how we looked tough on crime, but
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America has been at war, fighting drug abuse for almost a century. Unfortunately, it is a war that America is losing and has had little success in. The U.S. spends billions of dollars every year trying to eradicate drugs from this country and correlating drug abusers with crime. While America’s leaders see the war on drugs as a domestic law endorsement, hospitals, prisons, and morgues continue to fill up with overdosing victims and people who get sentenced to jail because of a mandatory minimum drug
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