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    The role leadership plays in correctional facilities‚ is putting prisoners in isolation for weeks‚ months‚ and even years at a time is standard operating procedure. Solitary confinement is used in prisons‚ to keep order among troubled‚ and dangerous inmates. As described by Hatch‚ 2013‚ “institutionalization‚ presents the myth that hides an organizations behavior from the public view and allows cooptation of resources to go undetected for long periods of time” (Hatch‚ & Cunliffe 2013‚ pg. 36). Correctional

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    Taylor JUST 6510/ JPS Planning & Budgeting April 18‚ 2015 This paper will discuss how state and federal budgets are affected by the overcrowding of prisons. I chose this topic mainly because I use to work for the Alabama Department of Corrections from 2002 to 2005 as a Correctional Officer I. During the time I was employed for the department‚ I witness a lot of overcrowding in Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. Things had gotten so bad due to the number of women whom were now committing crimes

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    In the periodical titled “The Feminization of community Corrections Work Force‚” by Jo . G Holland‚ he speaks of how the corrections system is dominated by the male gender. It is clear upon reading that in every aspect of the criminal justice system‚ men have the upper hand and basically run the system. In any prison facility‚ lawyers office‚ police station‚ congress and so on men are very familiar faces. It is very rare that you will come across a place of this nature where

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    The United States of America has less than 5% of the world’s population‚ but unfortunately has more than 20% of the world’s prison population‚ making it the country with the highest prison rates in the world (American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU]‚ 2016). To put this in perspective‚ China has a population of about 1.4 billion people while the United States has a population of about 324 million people; the prison population in the United States is 2.2 million while China has a prison population of

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    Factor in Traditional Correctional Functions? LaShawn McNair Professor Herbeck Criminal Justice and the Community April 15‚ 2012 When we hear the word corrections‚ most of us tend to think of a jail or prison. It is popularly believed that the function of corrections is merely to lock criminals up. Most of us don’t associate corrections with the community. The objective of my essay is to show the correlation between traditional correctional functions and community justice. According to

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    History of corrections Young Arrington Correction System and Practices August 8‚ 2012 Comparison and contrast between Auburn and Pennsylvania correctional systems Comparison The Auburn correctional system began at the New York State Prison in 1819 and was referred to as a congregate system. The Auburn beliefs were crime prevention through silent confinement and fear of punishment. In the Auburn system inmates ate and worked in groups during the day and returned to isolation at

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    Abstract The following narrative will be illustrated into three sections. The three sections will be classified as: Law Enforcement‚ Corrections‚ and Courts. Of these sections I will be discussing the politics‚ stressors and attitudes found within these elements of the criminal justice system. A recent political event that has created national conflict and debate‚ are the immigration laws that have been established in the state of Arizona. This will be the topic of all three sections in the

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    defect that brought them to commit the crime. There are also situations where a child was neglected‚ abandoned‚ or abused by an adult they cared about‚ thus bringing violence among the child. A child’s development can play a very important role in corrections. There may be a violent child that may need to be restrained or put in separate quarters to protect themselves as well as other detainees from harm. A child may also need to be medicated because of an underlying condition or disease. All of these

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    Define the difference between jail and prison. In addition‚ define the term rabble as it relates to the concept of American jails being a form of “rabble management.” Provide your opinion on the value and effectiveness of jails as forms of rabble management for society. Jails and prisons are generally considered to be the same thing by the general population. However‚ in fact there are a few subtle differences. Both Prisons and Jails house criminals‚ but Jails have two primary functions. Jails

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    The major issue in the United States corrections system is the over-crowding of are prisons. The United States Prison System and department of corrections have become an everlasting part of our justice system‚ but for various reasons confinement may be causing more harm than good. Although most would say that prisoners who have found themselves in the penal system are nothing but animals who are getting what they deserve. The fact stands that they are human beings who are still by law covered

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