Pennsylvania Correctional System Network Project Daniel Stanley Strayer University Pennsylvania Correctional System Network Project This proposal is for a data communication network to serve the Pennsylvania Correctional system. The Pennsylvania legislature recently approved funding sufficient to pay for the development of this proposal. Pending proposal acceptance by the Pennsylvania State Correctional Office of Technology (a department within the state Office of Corrections), funding will
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Correctional philosophies were adopted from the past philosophies used to maintain a safe and effective correctional facility. More correctional facilities try and become a rehabilitation facility and fail because of the lack of training for the officers regarding mental health and issues in the prison systems (Correctional Philosophies and Practices, 2007). Federal correctional facilities have maintained the code of safety and a well-run security. There are two different types of correctional
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Introduction 3 Population of Mentally Ill Inmates in the Correctional Facilities 3 Mentally ill inmates: The Cost 4 The Treatment of Mentally Ill Inmates 6 Selection Process for Mentally Ill Inmates 7 Isolation and Restraints 9 Conclusion 11 References 12 Introduction When a person thinks about a correction facility many only think that there is only regular criminals that are perfectly well, but what they neglect to know is that it is also housed with mentally ill inmates as well.
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of mentally ill inmates has been not only a public concern, but has also been identified by Canada’s Correctional Investigator, Howard Sapers as an issue of concern in his 2014 report to parliament. Between 1997 and 2007, offenders entering the prison system with a mental disorder grew 71% in men and 61% in women (Canadian Mental Health Association, 2012). The problem at hand is that correctional institutes and their staff are not widely trained to deal with inmates who suffer from mental disorders
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been a steady reorganization and expansion of inmate industries within Canadian federal corrections. The CORCAN Corporation was created in 1980 to serve as the production and marketing arm of the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). Currently, CORCAN programs operate in over half of the federal correctional facilities across Canada, employing 4000 offenders throughout the year (CSC, 2001). CORCAN currently operates five main business lines: Agribusiness, Construction, Manufacturing, Services and Textiles
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Essay: "What Makes a Good Prison Guard" by Timothy N. Baker Some of the most difficult professions we have today are those that require us to take care of our fellow man in some form or another and correctional officers are at the top of that list. You have some very intelligent inmates in our prisons today who have some morals and then you have some out right psychopaths, but the vast majority of our prisoners today are ordinary people who have made a mistake and some how have got caught up
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them, the correctional officer. “There has never been a question about the stress associated with caring for individuals who have tremendous animosity towards you.” (The ethics of caring for those who hate you, 2006) A correctional officer is held to a higher standard than the average public. Correctional officers at all times are expected to be respectful, and impartial to all prisoners. Regardless of personal beliefs about a prisoners charges or an individual prisoner, correctional officers must
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Wardrop Unit 9 Final Essay The Correctional System In the correctional system we have two things we look at. The first things we look at is how they punish offenders and the second is how they rehabilitate offenders. We will look at both things throughout this paper. We will discuss how they punish offenders and how they rehabilitate the offenders. We will also talk about which one we think is more effective in reducing crime. There are many ways the correctional system punish the offenders.
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According to the Course Text there is a consideration of constitutional law and prisoners’ rights such as civil rights of prisoners, the prisons and jails must operate under the law to be able to successfully take care of the inmates by which they house within their facilities, they have to teach and educate each officer on all levels of the understanding of the constitution, and not only for the guiding and maintaining a safe environment and implementing the proper rules and regulations when it
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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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