Budget Reform to Save Future Generations In times of tight budgets‚ states need to make tough decisions in funding. One classic debate centers around whether to build prisons or schools. The good news for citizens is that prison counts have been at its lowest in thirty years. This matter on the surface should not concern the population since it is good news‚ but the money that is put into correctional facilities is immense‚ and it is taking over educational budgets and robbing children throughout
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Interestingly‚ recent empirical studies have shown that successful reintegration and lower recidivism can be fostered by a number of factors namely (1) Individual Characteristics‚ (2) Family‚ (3) Peers (Taylor‚ 2012; Visher‚ La Vigne& Travis‚ 2004)‚ (4) State Policies‚ and (5) Spiritualism (Visher& Travis‚ 2003; Walton‚ 2007). Yet there is scant literature looking into why these factors foster successful reintegrationand thereby lead to low recidivism. Thus the present study aims to look into in
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semester. This TV revolves around Piper Chapman‚ a woman in her thirties living in New York City‚ who is sentenced to 15 months in Litchfield Penitentiary in Ohio‚ a minimum-security women’s federal prison (operated by the "Federal Department of Corrections"‚ a fictionalized version of the Federal Bureau of Prisons) in upstate New York. Piper has been convicted of transporting a suitcase full of drug money for her then girlfriend Alex Vause‚ an international drug smuggler. The offense had occurred
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Prison Enviroment A prison environment is a place where inmates are physically confined and deprived of a range of personal freedoms. It is a cold and unfeeling place to be. There are many levels of conflict and tension (Foster‚ 2006). The prison environment influences the institutional management and custody by the growing population and the gangs within the facility. Overcrowding aggravates the natural conflicts that rely within the prisons walls which then escalate violence. When working with
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Life of a Correctional Officer Nancy Booker CRJ:303 Corrections Instructor Name: Yolanda Tilley August 31‚ 2012 CORRECTIONAL OFFICER 2 Life of a Correctional Officer Correctional Officers are very important people and they perform very important duties. An correctional officer job can become very demanding and on top of that it can be very stressful. Just like police officer. Correctional Officers takes a change each day they are at work and they never know
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The US Correctional System: Final Essay draft The US correctional system punishes offenders in different ways‚ because each offense is on a different level some can be felonies and some can be charged as misdemeanors. In our correctional system they punishes offenders‚ by putting them in jail/prison. But in its early years prison punishments for offenders were cruel. In the early year of the correctional system offenders punishments were very different from their punishments now in this day and
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federal prisons have been built and opened all over the United States. As crime increases‚ so does the need for these facilities. References Foster‚ B. (2006). Corrections: The fundamentals. Upper Saddle River‚ NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. Chapter 6‚ State and Federal
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Unit 4 Project Larinda K. Kimbrell Kaplan University CJ499-01P: Bachelors Capstone in Criminal Justice (P) Barbara Mitchell June 16‚ 2010 Abstract Over many years there has been great debate about whether rehabilitation reduces the rate of recidivism in criminal offenders. There has been great controversy over whether anything works to reduce recidivism and great hope that rehabilitation would offer a reduction in those rates. In this paper I will introduce information and views on the reality
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justice‚ or ask someone what they think the word means‚ they will spew out nouns such as: neutrality‚ fairness‚ impartialness‚ etc. I believe justice in terms of the criminal system is the collaboration of three different entities‚ police‚ court‚ and corrections. That have to work together to form an illusion of one single entity; and in doing this‚ they have to still maintain a check and balance system amongst themselves. So‚ no one system should be able to have full authority. For only by this can it
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medication is extremely high. Based on the crimes woman commit‚ they inconvenience society less then the crimes men commit and are usually non-violent and do not present a risk to public safety. These reasons alone should sentence women to community corrections whenever possible. This is important for several reasons: • To reduce the incidence and the costs of incarceration • To improve outcomes for women and their children • To demonstrate an approach that may also be more effective with men
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