(NJ Star Ledger) 1. Qualify source- history, ownership, bias, measures of impact, awards received, quality of news and opinion. The NJ Star Ledger is the oldest and largest circulated paper in U.S state of New Jersey and it’s headquarters is located right here in Newark, NJ. A man named S. I. Newhouse purchased what was then called the “Newark Ledger” in the year 1935 and merged the paper with the “Star Eagle” in the year 1939 which became “The Star Ledger.” The Ledger is
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The concept of the prison has existed for more than two thousand years. It probably goes back as far in time as practice of cannibalism, where victims had to wait for their turn in contributing to the chief course in the menu of their captors. Examples of prisons can even be found in the Old Testament when Joseph was incarcerated in Egypt. It was not until the 19th century that a clear shift occurred from corporal punishment to imprisonment. As societies prospered and the industrial revolution began
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Rehabilitation in prison is any program that makes people better or reduces criminal behavior (Foster, 2006). It can also include one religion, which is the biggest program in our prison today. Number two is recreation such as sports and groups. Number three would be arts and craft where artistic expressions are stressed (Foster, 2006). Number four is service groups which includes fund raisers and juvenile group homes (Foster, 2006). Number five would be self-help groups such as alcohol anonymous
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| | Rehabilitation| CJS/230| | | | Rehabilitation in prisons programs are applied within the prison setting to end criminal activity. "The aim of the prison is to get the prisoner into the right program, keep him or her there until the program is successfully completed, and then turn the prisoner out to test the commitment to non-criminal behavior" (Foster, 2006). However, the dictionary defines rehabilitation as restoring to a previous condition. Rehabilitation is a new concept in
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Community Corrections Paper Michael Kilgore CJS/230 June 30, 2013 Darren Brodsky Community Corrections Paper Abstract This paper will be discussing how community corrections can affect society. I will lend my input about community corrections and the effectiveness it has on the system. I will describe prison systems in other countries, as well as how these other nation’s view and practice imprisonment. I will discuss the possibilities that could happen if the U.S. prison system adopted
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Response paper #2 Name: wenjia geng This paper provides an analysis of human rights catastrophe in our jails and prisons that people have to confront. And the author points out prisons’ growth can't be isolated from problems of our society, such as racism, poverty and global capitalism. And I want to talk about is the time for the prison approaching an end? Since 1970s, prisons have grown exponentially, because there exist a cycle of joblessness and incarceration. A plenty
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In 2006, Timothy Souders, a 21 year old male was incarcerated and sent to the Southern Michigan Correctional Center to serve a three to five year sentence. Despite an investigation showing that Souders needed urgent psychiatric care, He was chained down by the hands, feet, and waist, for up 17 hours at a time. According to prison rules, Souders activity was recorded on a 24 hour surveillance camera and by the guards. The prison tape recordings show a rapid decline in Souders mental health. He started
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Federal Prison Comparison Matrix Angel Kennedy CJS/255 March 7, 2016 Richard Gilbert Jail vs Prison Is there a difference between jail and prison, and if so, what factors separate the two? The belief each place is practically the same is a common misconception, however; there is one fundamental component in which governs the temporary or permanent placement of an offender. A jail’s and prison’s quality of food, facility resources, and availability of rehabilitative programs are all different
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The Reading Habit 9 by Frankie Y. Bailey We humans are creatures of habit. Change, real change, does not come easily for most of us. We prefer to get into our comfortable groove and stay there. Change often requires an epiphany, a life-altering insight, that most of us rarely, if ever, experience. Perhaps this is why the more cynical among us would doubt that simply picking up a book could change a life. Like many avid readers, I have had the experience of falling in love with a book. But
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In 2012, The Sentencing Project released results from a survey of people sentenced to life in prison as juveniles and found the defendants in other cases were not uncommon. Seventy-nine percent witnessed violence in their homes regularly, 32% grew up in public housing, and 40% had been enrolled in special education classes. Fewer than half of the prisoners were attending school at the time of their offense, 47% were physically abused, and 77% of girls reported histories of sexual abuse (“Juvenile
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