disabilities are significantly overrepresented in the nation’s prisons and jails today. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that fully 1 in 5 prison inmates have a serious mental illness (Vallas‚ 2016). As a result of this increase in population‚ these facilities are inadequately funded and staffed to provide mental health treatment to prisoners who are sentenced as a result of their mental illnesses (Gilna‚ 2016). North Carolina is one state that is addressing this issue. In 2014 North Carolina was
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org/Government.htm#Federal Government The Levels of the Government The levels of government were established when Canada created it’s Constitution (The British North America Act) in 1867. The separate roles are defined by sections 91 and 92. Federal Government In general‚ the federal government takes major responsibility for things that affect all Canadians. This would include national defense‚ foreign policy and citizenship. The Federal Legislature (Parliament Buildings) and many of the Federal offices
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of prison overcrowding in the UK. The prison population of the UK has steadily been increasing every year since 1993 when the number was 41‚000 to a current figure of 82‚000 (office of national statistics). This essay will discuss this doubling of prison population in the last 17 years. It will examine the suggested reasons for this rise‚ a statistical breakdown of the structure of the inmate population‚ the financial and social effects also the implications on the effectiveness of prison as
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comes to prisons‚ anything that can’t be bought in the commissary or that isn’t given to them when they get to prison is contraband. Contraband is a major issue behind the walls and can be anything from a “homemade” shank by the inmate‚ or drugs or weapons smuggled into the prison from various ways. Not only is different types of contraband in the prison a threat to the inmates lives‚ but also a threat to the officers on duty and other staff members. Some issues with contraband in a prison are: how
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there are also moral convictions taking place. Prison abolition is a movement aimed to reduce the number of prisons and eradicate prisons in relation to replacing them with more humane‚ effective and nominal systems. Prison abolitionist could be considered as an effective organisation in order to eliminate and diminish the number of offences that
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Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King or Supreme Sovereign) as the head of the country. The federal Constitution of Malaysia divides the authority of the federation into its Executive‚ Legislative‚ and Judiciary authority. The Yang Di-Pertuan Agong The election of Yang Di-Pertuan Agong The Yang Di-Pertuan Agong is appointed once in every five years from a pool of nine Sultans who head the nine states in Malaysia. The appointment is systematic and each of the nine Sultans has the opportunity
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the “state of exception” as a condition that suspends normal legal norms and influences the increase in the exercise of sovereign power in a state of emergency or crisis. Throughout his writings‚ he uses examples from the Civil War Reconstruction era in the United States to support his argument that in times of crisis or emergency‚ the sovereign has the authority to set aside existing laws and norms in order to preserve the state as a whole. During the Reconstruction era in the United States‚ the
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Language is a very diverse aspect of each culture and can differ from state to state‚ city to city‚ and even community to community. A community that has a very unique language is prison. Prison inmates use a language called argot‚ which does not make sense to the average person‚ but is very necessary to inmates and guards. Argot is the more scientific term for criminal jargon or prison slang but it is used mainly to communicate between criminals and to create a barrier to keep others from understanding
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Criminal Justice Overview Stephanie Smith CJA/394 October 20‚ 2014Roy Diaz Prison and County Correctional Faculties Overcrowding The subject of prison overcrowding has been an issue for many years. It is not just the prisons that are overcrowded but also the county correctional facilities. In the U.S.A. today 1 in nearly 100 Americans are currently incarcerated ("Alec"‚ 2014). The reasons that the numbers are so high are due to the many different laws and strategies that have been put into
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The shift from deinstitutionalization to criminalization for mentally ill offenders has further added to the complexities occurring within United States prison system. The number of mentally ill inmates has continued to increase significantly as public psychiatric hospitals have continued to close. In addition to overcrowding‚ budget constraints and allegations of mistreatment among inmates with psychiatric disorders correctional facilities have been given the task of providing treatment to the
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