I will argue that using therapeutic communities in prisons will reduce the recidivism rates among people who have been released from prison. I am going to use the general theory of crime, which is based on self-control, to help rationalize using federal tax dollars to fund these therapeutic communities in prisons. I feel that if we teach these prisoners some self-control and alternative lifestyles that we can keep them from reentering the prisons once they get out. I am also going to describe some
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crime he did not commit. In 1985, Halsey was sentenced for the rape and murder of two children - seven or eight years old. Halsey was threatening the electric chair, but the jury chose a "soft" sentence - two life sentences plus twenty years in prison. The innocence of the convicted person was able to prove only with the help of the modern scientific study of DNA. Only because of this he got a chance to return to freedom. Unfortunately, miscarriages of justice in our time are not uncommon. In America
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Juvenile Justice: A Lost Child in a Failed System I remember one day when I was a child, I was about four years old and my sister was about 10 years old. We were on vacation with our parents in a beautiful resort. Our room was on the 15th floor of the Sea Coast Towers. Before I continue the story I have to make clear, my sister and have always been very close; we were inseparable. Until we read about Christian Fernandez, this story used to be a family joke. I had fallen asleep and my parents
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When black people are convicted of a crime, they are more likely to be sentenced to prison compared to whites convicted of the same crime. Due to research in a particular region, blacks were incarcerated for convicted felony offenses 51% of the time while whites convicted of felonies were incarcerated 38% of the time .According to this study, it was due to race. Data is only based off the statistics of arrested males. We will never be able to finalize the actual number of black males who are guilty
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After seeing this documentary, it is safe to say that prison-building in America serves as a program that collects millions of dollars from the work of thousands of innocent people, and spends hundredths on protecting wicked politicians. Their strategic plan on taking everything from the blacks is unfortunately successful. During the movie, Michael Hough said an eye opening statement; The focus is on taking people from prison, putting them in community corrections, parole and probation.” Basically
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overcrowded conditions for most state and federal prisons. These grant programs provided the information and incentives for state governments to expand, build, and adapt closed military bases as extension of the federal penal prison system. This initiative encouraged local and state courts to implement truth-in-sentencing and alternative sentencing concepts to lessen the burden of overcrowded prison systems. The grants divided in half for building prisons to increase the bed space for violent offenders
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greater. Federal prisons are home to offenders who are convicted of more serious crimes than those serving in the provincial prisons. Therefore, federal prisons tend to have more recreational facilities and rehab programs. Many prisoners who have been serving their time in both federal and provincial prisons say that they had more "freedom" in federal prisons than in provincial. Prisoners in provincial prisoners are not given the opportunity of programs which are offered in federal prisons. Those opportunities
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suspect or a convict would have a receiver placed in their home and would have to wear a transmitter. The evaluation of the Scientific Research and Documentation Centre was clear: “EM is a feasible alternative for the implementation of an unconditional prison sentence”. The researchers at the SRDC write: “This is true for both the application for community service and for detention sentences.” The report also shows that Electronic Monitoring is used more in cases of detention sentences than in the area
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think the death penalty is necessary nor does it change anything. A life should not be taken away in the matter that the death penalty does. There are crimes that are heinous and unforgivable, but taking a life a way is not the way to go. I think prison is a punishment, solitary confinement of torture. In certain cases a Life sentence without parole is a more deem able punishment then the death penalty. The cost involved to kill someone using the death penalty is a hefty expense. “Florida would
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Callous and Cruel; Use of Force against Inmates with Mental Disabilities in US Jails and Prisons Human Rights Watch Detailed in this report are the some of the abuses which mentally ill inmates report occurring, such as staff at times responding with violence when prisoners engage in behavior that is symptomatic of their mental health problems, even if it is minor and non-threatening misconduct such as urinating on the floor, using profane language, or banging on a cell door. They have used such
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