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    assessed penalization concluded.” Each jurisdiction has their own set of laws and therefore own criminal justice system and ways of managing criminal justice process. The criminal justice system has three components: law enforcement‚ courts‚ and corrections. The criminal justice system doesn’t make the laws they impose them by apprehending‚ trying‚ and penalizing offenders. All three components of the criminal justice system should work closely together to ascertain appropriate and just adjudication

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    Since 2002‚ the United States has had the highest incarceration rate in the world. Although prison populations are increasing in some parts of the world‚ the natural rate of incarceration for countries comparable to the United States tends to stay around 100 prisoners per 100‚000 population. The U.S. rate is 500 prisoners per 100‚000 residents‚ or about 1.6 million prisoners in 2010‚ according to the latest available data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Prison is a place used for internment

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    Alternative (FOSA) and Community Parenting Alternative (CPA). “The State saw a need to address the issue of the increasing number of minor children being raised without their parents. “ The Community Parenting Alternative is the department of Corrections Avenue for a parent who is within the correctional system could be placed with in this alternative program. This programs protocol is to transfer an offender to home detention using electronic monitoring for up to the last year of their prison sentence

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    about a four minute video on Hulu. The starts out by talking about the population of America which is about “5% of the world but the prison system in the U.S. has about over a .25% of them in jail” (Noah) which is ridiculous. Congress calls it the Corrections Act of 2015 where they have reduce the 3 strike policy towards nonviolent offenders to 25 years‚ so like the drug users or the people who sell it and also limit making a mandatory 10 year sentences along with other problems they wish to change.

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    Jail and Prisons Comparison Paper MiSha Bagley Introduction to Corrections/CJS 255 June 15‚ 2015 Sherri Webster Jail and Prisons Comparison Paper It is not uncommon that most people believe that jail and prison are one in the same. Jail is usually the first place a suspect is taking after being arrested and before they have been found guilty of a crime. Prison is the place where criminals are sent to carry out the sentence that was handed down to them by the jury and or judge. The purpose of this

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    Abstract Maximum-security prisons are known to be designed and organized to prevent escapes and violence and to deter prisoners from harming one another including the correctional officers. Super-max facilities imposes strict limitations on the freedom of inmates and visitors. These prisons‚ usually an imposing edifice are prisons surrounded by high stone walls studded with guard towers. The purpose of these type of facilities is custody and discipline‚ it embraces military-style approach to order

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    Correctional Facility

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    it is better for political court officials. They know this is not helping but if it gets them voted for because society thinks it’s safer then lock them up and throw the key way. What should the primary goal of corrections be? The primary goal of corrections should be to rehabilitate the offender. If rehabilitation is successfully done it would help the offender to become a productive member of society after they are released from prison. These things would have to take place from

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    void. Under The Fourth Amendment‚ it states that a person has the right to feel safe in their persons‚ houses‚ papers and effects. Being in a correctional facility corrections officers are required to keep the balance between the inmates rights and keeping the prison safe for themselves and other inmates and if I were a corrections officer‚ I would undoubtedly want my coworkers to be safe even if that means “violating”

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    out. None of these three components operates independently of the others. If someone is arrested by the police‚ their guilt or innocence is determined by the courts‚ and any potential punishment after conviction is handled by the corrections system. The consensus model assumes that these three components of the justice system work together to achieve justice. The conflict model assumes that system ’s components function primarily to serve their own interests‚ making

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    Criminal Psychology

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    The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has many many threats to consider when operating its day to day activities. These threats include everything from internal threats due to inmate actions to external threats from items being smuggled in through e intra state inmate laundry services. In order to address these threats‚ the state is in a constant situation where it is perpetually evaluating its operations and updating them based on new regulations from the governor and from its own lessons

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