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    Prison Industrial Complex

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    Critical response question #1-week 5 by Ricky Osei-kusi Canada can be seen as polar opposites from the United States of America on many different levels such as health care‚ firearm laws and population. Although these two countries share similarities when it comes to prisons and how they are run. I believe Canada implies a prison industrial complex because of the ideologies‚ legislation and criminal justice goals that allow for the prison industrial complexes to thrive and expand. A prison industrial

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    courts and corrections. Law enforcement officers enforce the laws‚ maintain the safety of the public and apprehend the criminals; the court convicts the criminals‚ ensures due process‚ upholds the law and protects the rights of anyone facing processing; finally‚ they go to a correctional institution to carry out their sentence. The corrections component attempts to rehabilitate‚ reform and reintegrate convicted offenders. Law enforcement officers‚ prosecutors‚ and the Department of Corrections are not

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    Reproductive Health Care for Incarcerated Women and Adolescent Females. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Retrieved from: https://www.acog.org/~/media/Committee%20Opinions/Committee%20on%20Health%20Care%20for%20Underserved%20Women/co535.pdf?dmc=1&ts=20140128T1543050312 Women’s Health Care Physicians. (2011. Novemeber). Health Care for Pregnant and Postpartum Incarcerated Women and Adolescent Females. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Retrieved from:

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    correct answer‚ system shows “Try again!” on screen. Correction process: Student will recalculate the problem on paper‚ input the new answer into “WebAssign” again and click “submit” button. The system compares the correct answer with new answer again. This is a process called cybernetics. It is originally applied to WebAssign system. It includes input initial guess‚ comparing process‚ re-computing and continuing cycle. It can continue corrections until desired target reached and stop the feedback

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    the USA. They started with the Quakers in Philadelphia. The mass prison era started in the 1800’s and has gotten stronger today‚ beginning in the 1960’s overcrowding and a renewed faith in humanity inspired a movement away from institutionalized corrections and toward a creation of reformation within local communities. Prisons today‚ there are about 1‚325 state prisons‚ 84‚ federal prisons in operation in the US. Today. America’s prison population has quadrupled since 1980. We also punish people

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    The third contact of the criminal justice system is the corrections. Corrections form of discipline of punishment can range from jails‚ prisons‚ probation‚ parole‚ house arrest‚ etc. Jails are ran by local government and law enforcement‚ which is intended to hold inmates awaiting trial or serving a short sentence. The short sentence is usually no more than above one year. Jails operate work release programs‚ educational‚ drug prevention programs and others. These programs are created to help the

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    takes place in the jail and prison along with a strategy in use to control the problem is of discussion. Also I will include discussion of a community-based corrections program in Slidell‚ Louisiana‚ in connection to the jail and prison. Main topics will include The Louisiana State Penitentiary‚ The Saint Tammany Parish Jail‚ and the corrections facility‚ Truth 180. The Louisiana State Penitentiary

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    Recidivism

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    Padilla‚Thelma Recidivism: The Impact On Us All Our criminal justice system relies heavily on probation and parole and corrections to maintain a safety in all of our communities from people who commit crimes. Then after that‚ there are what we call repeat offenders who for some reason‚ just do not know how to stop. Whether it ranges from simple assault to a felony like murder‚ some cannot scratch off the edge to do it again. What does this mean for us as a community to maintain our sanity and

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    The Porpuse of Jails

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    justice. Jail is often the first contact that citizens have with the corrections system. It is at this point that treatment and counseling have the best chance to deter future criminal behavior. Until the eighteen century‚ all penal institutions existed primarily to hold those charged with a crime until their trials. Although jails still serve this purpose‚ they have evolved to play a number of different roles in the corrections system. According to sociologist John Irvin‚ the unofficial purpose of

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    the United State‚ many prisons are overcrowded. “In the U.S. many prisons are overcrowded; with about 2.3 million people be behind bars.” As a result‚ the prisoners become territorial. Overcrowded prison lead to more violence between prisoner and correction officers. (Major Problems‚ Issues & Trends Facing Prisons Today2003-2017). Today‚ some of the major issues that prisons faces are assault‚ gangs and metal heath. Prison cell blocks are mean for one inmate at a time but some of prison cell blocks

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