PRELIMINARY STATEMENT Stephen Richards respectfully submits this Memorandum regarding his re-sentencing. The purpose of this submission is to highlight pertinent developments in the lives of Mr. Richards and his family members in the four years since the Court originally imposed a sentence of 84 months imprisonment. Mr. Richards has been incarcerated for 43 months. He has earned all available “good time” credit, which brings his total time served to 49 months. Certain events since
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1. As a taxpayer, are you happy with the prison system in the United States? Yes/No 2. Do you think the prison system is overcrowded? Yes/No 3. Do you agree with the statement, “The prison system in the U.S. does a good job at helping prisoners re-enter society as law abiding citizens?” Yes/No 4. Do you think more money should be spent on education rather than prison? Yes/No 5. The food in public schools is the same grade and quality as the food in prisons, does this surprise
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Penitentiary Ideal and Models of American Prison Paper Patricia Ann Long CJS/230 November 20, 2011 Amanda Eicher Abstract The ideal for penitentiary is to keep the criminals off the streets, so that he or she cannot continue to commit crime in the society. Penitentiary ideal purposes were both secular and spiritual (Foster, "Chapter 2/The Penitentiary Ideal," 2006). The two prison models are Eastern State and Auburn. Explain the difference between both of the two prison models. The differences
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“Assignment: Penitentiary Ideal and Models of American Prison Paper” The word penitentiary falls back on the story of Creation. In the Bible, the chapter Genesis 1:2 says, “And the Earth was without form.” This is how a penitentiary was back in the 1700’s; it was merely an idea that had not been concrete to others yet. According to chapter 2 of the textbook; The Penitentiary and the 1800’s, “The penitentiary was more of an idea or set of principles
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Mental health is an important issue within the criminal justice and prison systems as it disproportionately affects those who are imprisoned. Stohr and Walsh (2012) suggest one factor that has contributed to the growing number of mental health issues within the prison population in America where government attempted to move towards half way houses and outpatient facilities instead of mental health hospitals. Yet failures to this deinstitutionalisation movement led to jails and prisons becoming the
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Imprisonment comes with many problems, from “transitional issues for inmates post-release” (Contardo, 2008) to financial impacts due to the rising costs of incarceration. For years prison workers and other professionals have been trying to find a way to reduce these effects. One of the ways they have found is through an education system within the prison. Many see giving those in prison a chance to partake in a form of education as a way to negate ‘prisonization’. Prisonization, according to Harer
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Dr. Heather Ann Thompson, in her essay “Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History” suggests that the twentieth had a large increase in incarceration, and that more people were incarcerated in the United States than any other countries worldwide (the cause being drugs). Also, she claims that ten times more American were imprisoned during the last decade of the twentieth century than were killed in the Vietnam War. Dr. Heather Ann Thompson
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Raliat Tijani Solitary Confinement in Prison Essay Is Solitary Confinement the right punishment for inmates in prison? Solitary confinement is the isolation of inmates in a twelve by eight foot cell with no windows for 23 hours or more as a form of punishment. Some people say solitary confinement helps keep the prison safe but medical research say it causes a longer term of mental illness. Even though it's supposed to serve as a form of punishment for violent infractions it is not always used
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Over the course of two weeks, the Criminal Justice class of Heartland went to tour the Wabash County Jail and the Miami County Jail. As we toured and compared both of the jails, there were various major differences between them. A few of these major differences are how many inmates each jail can hold, the dorms, and the way visitors get to visit inmates. Starting off, the Wabash County Jail was built in 1979, as for the Miami County Jail, which was built in 2009. The Miami County Jail is more advanced
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In order to be effective, reform efforts require two main things: (1) The principles the correctional system espouses have to rest on a solid philosophical foundation. And (2) the day-to-day conduct of prison staff must support rather than subvert the system’s philosophical basis. Just as the wrong philosophy can counter legitimate efforts, the daily behavior of prison staff can undercut the right theoretical approach. Institutional practices that largely consist of irresponsible staff occasionally
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