track so they can have a normal life. Probation Officers have many different jobs. One primary job is handling pre-sentence investigations on offenders so the courts can figure out fitting sentences for them. That may include probation, jail or prison sentence, or both. Probation
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federal drug control agencies, in addition to putting in place mandatory minimum sentences. The amount of people in prison for nonviolent drug offenses increased from 50,000 in 1980 to over 400,000 by 1997 (A Brief History of the Drug War). Moreover, when we look at the demographics of our prisons, there is a large discrepancy. Thus, we are begged with the question: Why are our prisons disproportionately filled with brown-skinned people? The institutionalized racism that
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In 1968, when American soldiers came home from the Vietnam war addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miami’s demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and Marijuana. Thanks to the task force, drug arrests went up by 27%, and drug seizures went up by 50%. With that
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Obedience is a form of social influence that occurs when a person yields to explicit instructions on orders from an authority figure. Obedience is compliance with commands given by an authority figure. In the 1960s, the social psychologist Stanley Milgram did a famous research study called the obedience study. It showed that people have a strong tendency to comply with authority figures. Milgram’s Obedience Study Milgram told his forty male volunteer research subjects that they
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question: how is this related to learning, and why should individuals strive to be mentally alive? In the Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm writes of his time in prison. He even goes as far as to say that the time he spent there actually motivated him to become mentally alive in his education. He writes, “I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me, some long dormant craving to be mentally alive” (X,
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That however was not the case for 79 young adolescents who were sentenced to die in prison. Gail Garinger states in the article “ Juveniles Don’t Deserve Life sentences” that “ These children were told that they could never change and that no one cared what became of them. They were denied access to education and rehabilitation programs
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Paul C Federal Bureau of Prisons-Reentry One very important function of the corrections system is to assist inmates that are up for release from federal prison. Assistance is given by connecting these individuals to outside organizations for assistance. These organizations help to reduce recidivism rates. “The BOP contracts with residential reentry centers (RRCs), also known as halfway houses, to provide
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Mcevoy 1 Brandon Mcevoy ENG 105 Malory Klocke April, 27, 2016 Prison reform in America For the entirety of our lives in America we all know of certain taboos, the no no’s of American culture. Examples being drugs, assault, theft, drug distribution. What needs to be discussed are how these infractions are handled in America, how our justice system operates, how mandatory minimum sentences are discerned, parole and probation are handled as well as their violations, and punishment for violations
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options in the prison system when it relates to a prisoners release such as parole, and mandatory release. Probation and community corrections are both options judges have at his or her disposal during the sentencing process. Current rehabilitation options, the parole process, the probation system, and community corrections are areas that often need to be reviewed or critiqued. Because the rehabilitation process is the most critical portion of an inmate’s life in prison, officials need
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The Yuma Territorial Prison had its first prisoners on July 1, 1876. These prisoners had stayed in cells that they had built themselves. The prison was a 25,000$ budget project for the legislature. It’s located about three miles west from the colorado river. There were 111 people who had died in the prison, out of those people who had died while at the prison most of them was because of tuberculosis a bacterial infection that affects your lungs and can have minor side effects but is easily treated
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