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    Corrections doesn’t receive enough funding to create new jails and everything else that may help corrections reduce overcrowding. Underfunding also leads to the ratio of correctional officers to inmates being extremely unproportioned. This leaves correctional officers outnumbered and vulnerable when they

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    Tough On Crime Mentality

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    The mentality and the attitude of the politicians effects the state of jails and prisons today. Many politicians are crowd pleasers; they must worry about election and re-election. In a way‚ the mentality of the politicians is representative of the mentality of the public. The “tough on crime” mentality‚ as discussed in class‚ can be dangerous. On the surface‚ it sounds good. It is an admirable goal to have to eliminate crime and “clean up the streets‚” but there are issues with the execution. One

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    Jail and Prison

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    discuss the four types of prisons and explain the concept of prison as a total institution. Jails can play an important role in the criminal justice system‚ in which will also be discussed. The paper will also study the role of community based corrections programs associated with jails and prisons. The discussion of violent behavior among prisoner‚ between inmates and staff‚ strategies for responding to violent behavior will be examined. Last‚ the paper will discuss parole as a concept for jails

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    Careers Marielu Villa Westwood College Abstract This paper reflects about criminal justice careers that will help me get knowledge and get a better idea about the career that I choose. Components of criminal justice: law enforcement‚ courts‚ and corrections. A brief description about the career‚ the requirements‚ and the hiring criteria the career has. Tell why the position interest me‚ how does it relate to the career path that I want‚ and finally what I’m looking for in gaining from the career.

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    combat prison gangs‚ these strategies include; segregation‚ isolation of gang leaders‚ jacketing or labeling and categorizing gang members for intelligence purposes‚ deprogramming‚ and placement of gang members in high-security prisons. Special corrections officer response teams were formed to manage inmates. These teams are known as Special Operations Response Team or SORT teams (Foster‚ 2006). Changes to improve institutional management in my opinion cannot simply be suggested at the institutional

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    Punishment in the Age of Prisons." New York University Review of Law and Social Change 21. 5. Pillsbury‚ Samuel H. 1982. "Creatures‚ Persons‚ and Prisoners: Evaluating Prison Conditions Under the Eighth Amendment." Southern California Law Review 55 6. “Corrections and Rehabilitation‚” 2010 http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/

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    goals (Seiter‚ 2011). Furthermore‚ open systems as described by Snarr receive numerous inputs from external government units and are held accountable for certain expected outputs from those such as taxpayers and elected officials. The textbook‚ Corrections: An introduction further states that prisons today interact with the local community; with their headquarters organization; with interested groups of employees‚ citizens‚ vendors‚ and other public agencies; and with other providers of correctional

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    overcrowding in the prison was the principal factor in violating constitutional rights‚ yet the court did not mention alternatives to release thousands of inmates (Newman et al.‚ 2012). Some of the alternatives that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) suggested were transferring inmates to other states‚ using local jails to put prisoners in‚ stop incarcerating parolees for noncriminal violations‚ and diverting selected offenders to specialized programs (Horned et al

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    Identifying a Problem

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    institution. During the time that I worked in corrections I encountered several inmates that had HIV. It was this environment and the experience that I received this idea and it is what gives me the inspiration to build a proposal for change. Within this system is where I discovered that staff was not receiving much prevention and education and the inmates were not receiving any prevention education at all. During the time that I worked in corrections and encountered individuals with HIV. One evening

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    Crime Prevention

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    and imposing the threat of serious sanctions. Crime prevention is the focus of the Criminal Justice System. Steven P. Lab of the Justice Quarterly (2004) states that some of the components of crime prevention include the police‚ court system‚ corrections (which are the three key components of crime prevention)‚ the community‚ schools and other organizations. According to the National Crime Prevention Crime Prevention 3 Council‚ it is the job of the law enforcement to

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