The History Of Prisons

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    Bad Indians Deborah Miranda Summary

    attempt of erasure on the history on the impact on California Indians. The Spanish Mission’s contained and controlled the California Indian’s with the use of physical violence. Different tools of punishment were used among the Mission Indian’s to reinforce disobedience such as flogging, cudgels, and cormas. In Deborah Miranda’s “Bad Indians”, she examines why these devices for punishment were used, and how their history has been able to survive because of oral history.

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    Parloe Revocation

    3-month period prior to parole revocation was assessed. Frequent alcohol use was higher among men who had more children, were homeless, or had a history of alcohol and other drug abuse treatment. The use of drugs was greater among men who were younger or had a history of sexually transmitted infection (STI). The use of hard drugs was higher among men who had history of injection drug use. Unprotected vaginal or

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    The Sureňos Trecè Gang

    The Sureňos Trecè Gang Global Crime and Criminal Justice Abstract Gang killings are results of drug wars have been refuted by the authorities since blotters report that these homicides are conflicts over territory, status and revenge. Gang wars are not only “inner city” problems but all over as well. Almost every city around the world claims to be gang capitals, like New York or London. Other major cities in the US have also been known to be havens for gang wars such as Houston and Chicago

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    Mandatory Prison Education Program Analysis

    As a warden if I had to make the chose of saving six programs, I would be saving the following programs. The first program would be Mandatory Prison Education, were all prisoners will have to have some type of education before they leave the facility of prison, if they are going to be serving more than three year in prison. I always say an educated person sometimes make better choices in life. Knowledge is a powerful tool in life to make better choices and gives you better opportunities in life.

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    History

    Grace D’Onofrio Professor Williams U.S. History 27 April 2015 Debate Does the media today side with race more than the police and the criminal justice system? Argue from the perspective of African Americans. Introduction * In recent years policy attention regarding the crisis of the African American male has focused on a variety of areas in which African Americans have suffered greatly. * This includes education, housing, employment, and health care. Have these problems been displayed

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    Mentally Ill Prisoners

    counseling prisoners to deal with trauma, and correcting prisoners' morals in life. Most mentally ill criminals go to prison instead of a mental hospital due to their illness not being identified or even

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    Essay On Prison Education

    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 (1994) as quoted in Contardo (2008) is the “process by which prisoners become alienated from prison rules, staff, and the larger society”. A

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    Limit to Punishment of Children Who Commit Violent Crimes

    (Baker). Children who commit violent crime have common characteristics such as “Narcissism, (the feeling that you are special and superior to everyone else and that other people have no rights), a history of animal cruelty and cruelty to other children, social isolation, repeated defiance of authority and a history of minor juvenile offenses, and unhealthy obsessions with death, violence and starting fires’” (Baker). However, when dealing with minors, it must be taken into account if children should be

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    Criminal Justice

    misbehavior of the said criminal offender in the hopes they will change their ways. According to Seiter (2011),”Jails are the watershed of the correctional system. The U.S. jail is the oldest of the correctional components, initiated well before prisons, probation, parole, or halfway houses.” ("Chapter 3: Jails") Jails have been involved in the correctional system for a long time. The original purpose of a jail was to lock away a criminal offender. Treatment in jails was poor and conditions ever

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    Drugs

    inmates within correctionaI faciIities. The purpose of this research paper wiII be to assess the various issues that exist in rehabiIitative programs within prison systems. BasicaIIy, rehabiIitation programs are used to correct and rehabiIitate criminaI offenders so that they can emerge as usefuI members of society once they compIete their prison sentences. Some of the rehabiIitation programs that are commonIy used to reform inmates incIude counseIing, heaIth and fitness programs, transcendentaI meditation

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