Jails and Prisons Jails and Prisons Jails and prisons play an important role in criminal justice. Although each serves as a part of the governmental legal system, jails and prisons are different from one another. Each community has a jail and each state has a prison. In my county the jail well known is the Kitsap County Jail and the state prison that we know mostly of is the Washington State Corrections Center for Women. I will discuss in detail the differences between Kitsap County Jail
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Corrections Corrections Service is responsible for probation, parole, aftercare and adult institutional services throughout the Territories. The purpose of the Corrections Service is the correction and treatment of offenders and the protection of the community by: * providing, when requested by a court, information respecting the background of an offender before sentencing; * offering probation and parole supervision, counselling and aftercare services to offenders; * providing for the
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America Today in the Prison’s Melanie Fife American InterContinental University March 17, 2013 Chad Faries ABSTRACT I’m writing a paper that has 5 different sources, that have books, newspaper articles, and Government papers, that has something to deal with America’s prisons today in society. America has a huge problem with our prison system being overcrowded. The crime rate has increased so much and we are just making me people go to jail or prison. The topic I chose was the prison system
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A community correction (most commonly known as probation or parole) is the means of supervising felons and misdemeanants outside of correctional confinement. There is a common misconception among the American people that when a person commits a crime, then he or she will be removed from society and placed in a correctional institution. (Foster, Burk 2006). Community corrections can be very beneficial to the individuals who are placed on probation in a sense that it gives them a second chance to
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The scenario illustrated a single mother with prior drug offense is on parole. She was told the conditions of her parole and any infractions by the correctional officer that could result loss of probation and possible prison term. Nevertheless, various dilemmas arise in regard to her probation were found on a certain day. First, the mother possesses drug paraphernalia in the jacket she was wearing. Second, she wore the same jacket earlier to her child school which is a drug free zone. Third, she
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Crime and the Criminal Justice System The criminal justice system and the process have molded the laws of the United States to its current existence. The judicial system is designed to punish those who commit crimes against one another and for those who break the laws in other ways. According to Pearson (2012), crime can be defined as conduct in violation of the state, the federal government, or a local jurisdiction for which there is no legally acceptable justification or excuse. Pearson (2012)
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wrote: The role of probation and parole officers in the collaborative response to sex offenders (Payne & DeMichele, 2010). This article talks about the various roles of how law enforcement and the community see sex offenders. For example law enforcement role is to teach violence prevention programs. The prosecution can use their role by getting a strong sentence to ease the victim’s pain, while sentencing the sex offender for treatment during their incarceration. The probation and parole officers have
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Center treats a wide array of clientele which vary extensively in age, culture, disability, and drug of choice (d.o.c.) about 75% of which whom have been sentenced to complete either the 62 or 90 day in-patient treatment program as part of their probation or parole (P. Collins, personal communication, March 31, 2011). The case workers, nurses, doctors, and human services technicians that make up the staff must face a variety of ethical dilemmas on a regular basis. In the interview, Patti expressed
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The Components of the Criminal Justice System Michael Jinkerson CJS200 2/28/2014 Craig Levins The criminal justice system is made up of the various different organizations and processes created by State and Federal Governments in an effort to control crime and inflict penalties on individuals who break the laws. A single universal criminal justice system does not exist in the United States. What we do have are many similar, individual systems. The criminal justice system works differently
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Conditions of Probation The terms and conditions of a persons probation are clear, cut, and dry. Probation is a prison sentence that has been suspended on the condition that the offender follows certain prescribed rules and commits no further offenses (Sieter, 2011). A probation officer evaluates offender progress and recommends intensity of supervision based on observations from time of conviction through the period of adjustment after release from an institution (FL DOC, 2012). The whole program
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