that occurs they lose their desire to have a gratifying and productive life. Therefore, by providing prisoners opportunities for education benefits society as well as inmates because education will help them adjust to civilization, reduce inmate recidivism rates, and improve their social skills. The idea of prison education has changed over
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Joseph Wright Dr. Light English 102 15 October 2012 Equal Treatment for Those with Criminal Histories All states should require equal treatment for all individuals with criminal records and the expungement of criminal histories for non-violent offenders after a certain period of time in order to reduce employment discrimination and the unemployment of qualified individuals. With the great proliferation of technology in today’s society, it is very easy for employers to obtain almost any information
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Corrections and Treatment There are many community-based treatment efforts that the courts can implement into a juveniles punishment rather than to incarcerate. A few of these community-based treatments are: House arrest, residential programs, and balanced probation. House arrest is conducted through an electronic GPS monitoring system that uses an ankle bracelet to send signals directly to the police department. Individuals offered this form of punishment are forced to remain within a specified
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Prisoners with Special Needs Roy Briston CJA/234 February 18, 2014 Prisoners with Special Needs There are many inmates in prisons that have different special needs. Some of these needs are based on whether the inmates are male or female. Males have some special needs to take care of their selves that females do not and vice versa. Then there are those who suffer from a mental illness. Their special needs are much different than those who have basic needs. People who suffer from substance
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Juvenile Rehabilitation Shelly Stanko CJS/240 February 26, 2012 Farrell Binder Juvenile Rehabilitation In the previous few decades, the United States justice policy has become more punitive. In particular, in the 1990s legislatures all over the county passed laws under which an increasing number of young people can be charged in criminal courts and incarcerated in adult prisons. Certainly, in nearly every
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Montel Richardson Sr. Historical Books July 15, 2014 A Sign of Togetherness Whenever our country faces a time of turmoil, it is evident because this is mainly the time you see people coming together. During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, thousands of mission workers, construction gurus, and people from all walks of life headed south. The gulf coast was in a season of despair after the horror of the damage Katrina caused had been revealed. The water had evaporated, the smell
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Problem Analysis Patricia Gacho Program Development and Evaluation/CJA595 October 25, 2010 Sean Reeves Problem Analysis Hard sentencing laws, drug offences are causing the prison population to rise at alarmingly high rates. This is one of the reasons why the United States (US) prisons are the highest populated in the world (Vicini, 2006). According to statistics, the US shows that in 2006 seven million people were in prison or on probation or parole. Of this amount, over two million
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other 18% are housed in community based facilities or in jails. Just like any other institution they protect the community by keeping these felons locked up, while keeping a low cost to tax payers to help these facilities run. As well to reduce the recidivism rate with a number of different programs to assist inmates with their rehabilitation back to the community. As an officer I have visited our local federal institutions we have, and that is a system I would not want to work in. It’s bad enough that
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we should ask ourselves considering tax payers are the people that pay the most for food, shelter, and medical care for all the prisoners that are incarcerated. In the United States prisons the recidivism rate is amazingly high. In 1994, the biggest study of prisoner recidivism that has been ever been completed in the United States proved that, of nearly 300,000 adult prisoners who were released in 15 different states, 67.5 percent were arrested again within three years. (Meditating
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Personal Leadership Plan HSM/230 Personal Leadership Plan Throughout life one will encounter many experiences and there is a lesson in each experience. I have embraced the experiences, learned from them and will use them to show others that there is life after drug abuse and incarceration. I currently volunteer with an organization that provides a safe and sober living environment for women in recovery. My goal is to assist women transitioning back into society after incarceration. The United
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