Correctional Counseling and Treatment Correctional counseling is a type of counseling that assists criminal offenders in dealing with specific problems their current personality structure lack, so they can make better decisions in the future. Correctional Counselors deal with specific life-adjustment situations, while trying to expand on the underneath "good" personality that already exists. In our correctional system, this type of counseling exists, but is it effective? With news flashes
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Correctional Officers’ Experiences Summary William Bleser Alex Lee Ruby Osorio Amy Crivolio CJA/234 Saturday March 8, 2014 Anthony J. Perish Correctional Officers’ Experiences Summary A correctional officer has to keep security to a certain level in a certain prison or jail facility by stopping and preventing any disturbances such as assaults and escapes. Correctional officers must supervise the activities of inmates daily. They must make sure that the inmates do not
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For this research and analysis paper we were assigned Section VII and VIII in the Corrections textbook by Stohr et al. Section VII (seven) covers parole and the reentry of prisoners. Section VIII (eight) elaborates on the experiences of the correctional staff members. I found these two equally important yet interestingly contradictory ideas to cover together. Both sections are full of information and relates well with the extra research on the specific topics. Summary and Analysis: The introductory
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Inmate-Patients In 2010, approximately one in every 27 adults (2.8 million) in the United States was behind bars according to a report from the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC), 2012. Maintaining a safe and secure environment is the most important mission of correctional facilities - not healthcare. Correctional nurses are challenged to provide inmate healthcare services in a caring relationship that promotes wellness, restores health, and facilitates healing. A great deal
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was considered that male and female inmates had similar treatment needs, but as correctional administrators become aware of the increasing numbers and the differing needs of female offenders, they must re-evaluate the available treatment programs and begin to implement revisions to the management of program plans. It is now clear that differences in treatment between women and men within the judicial and correctional systems often have harmed rather than helped women (Harris 1998). In addition
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Week Three Read Me First Correctional Policy and Procedures INTRODUCTION For centuries, societies had no trouble stating that the purpose of sentencing was punishment and that punishment was retribution. With the Age of Enlightenment and utilitarian thinking, society recognized three additional goals: deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation. The relative importance of these goals became tied to conservative, liberal, or radical ideology. In assuming management of a prison, wardens
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centers, physicians’ offices, medical labs, and more. One not really spoken about, is the prison health care system. Prison health care is the medical treatment of inmates in the United States Correctional Facilities (Means & Cochran, 2012) this is according to the report. The National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) is a federal agency that oversees the medical needs of prisoners. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, “In 2012, the number of admissions to state and federal
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To become a Juvenile correctional officer, one must be at least 18 years old, although, many programs require candidates to be at least 21 years old. Candidates, usually take a written entrance exam and physical fitness assessment. There are five steps to the hiring process to become a Juvenile corrections officer. Candidates are subject too: background checks, polygraph examinations, psychological evaluations, medical examinations, and a urinalysis [drug screening.] New Juvenile corrections officers
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Prison health care is caring for the inmates in prisons and correctional facilities around the United States. Even though a prisoner is incarcerated does not mean that a prisoner should receive any different care than a person outside the prison. The federal prison population around the United States was 217, 806 (U.S. Department of Justice, 2012). The federal agency that would handle the health care is the National Commission of Correctional Health Care (NCCHC). This agency was created in the early
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A Union Out of Control The California Correctional System which operates prisons in the state is broken and in dire need of reform but this can not be done because Correctional Officer’s union blocks any attempt to implement much needed reforms. So how does the State of California fix its broken prison system? The state must take on the Correctional Officer’s union and find a way to curtail and/or diminish its power. In laymen’s terms the state must break the union. This will be a very difficult
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