significantly overrepresented in the nation’s prisons and jails today. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that fully 1 in 5 prison inmates have a serious mental illness (Vallas‚ 2016). As a result of this increase in population‚ these facilities are inadequately funded and staffed to provide mental health treatment to prisoners who are sentenced as a result of their mental illnesses (Gilna‚ 2016). North Carolina is one state that is addressing this issue. In 2014 North Carolina was cited for neglect
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reformations for American civilization. After many years of what appeared to be a degradation of American progress and development‚ a sudden spark ignited the flame that was known as the era of reformation. Various reform movements grew from the ground up after a realization occurred in Americans that modifications needed to be made. Groups of people gathered together to improve upon education‚ women’s rights‚ and temperance. One reform movement that has had lasting consequences on American culture was
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IMMIGRATION REFORM Immigration laws have resulted in a situation where many illegal immigrants live and work in the United States‚ and the laws must be changed so that illegal aliens can contribute to the reconstruction of the American economy. The American economy has not successfully recovered since the recession in 2008. The united states started cutting corner where ever they could but sadly we still have to cut corner on immigration it currently cost 8000$ to deport one
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KSpeelman 23 July 2013 Bureaucratic Reform Government bureaucracy is a vital part of the American political process. Bureaucracy helps regulate certain aspects in the government‚ especially in the executive branch‚ by creating strict regulations that must be followed. These regulations help keep the agencies more fair to all people. However‚ many Americans frequently criticize the government bureaucracy because of its slowness and its unfairness to the American people. Because of the all the restrictions
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons oversees 114 correctional institutions throughout the United States. Most of them are classified as Minimum to Medium security‚ Levels I-IV. These facilities house everyday criminals‚ and only contain a very small number of high-profile‚ high risk inmates. There are 22 prisons‚ however‚ that are dedicated to keeping the most dangerous humans in the country off the streets. These are Super-Maximum Security prisons‚ or Supermax. They are classified as Levels V-VI‚ and
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Prison overcrowding is a global problem affecting many countries‚ the United States included. In his research‚ Jimmy Nguyen (2012)‚ states that overcrowding in these correctional facilities has denied the prisoners or the inmates their basic human and constitutional rights. In her article‚ Susan Campers (2012)‚ agrees with Jimmy that the state of prison overcrowding in the United States is a demonstration of a failing correctional system. In this essay‚ the paper gives a summary of these two articles
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Jeremey W Kuhnke Karyn Goldmeier American Correction Phase Four IP 6-17-2012 To understand what classification is in the prison system‚ I feel we have to look at the history of it as well. In the 19th century classification was hardly used. It was mainly used to control the prison system populations. Things like age‚ gender and number of offenses were used to classify them. During the medical model years of the prison system‚ they used medical reason to classify inmates. This helped control
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JAMES LAND History – To what extent were the social reforms of the Liberal Government between 1905 and 1914 a response to fuller knowledge about the extent and intensity of poverty? During the late nineteenth century the British government‚ under the Liberal party‚ acted according to the principle of laissez faire. This term refers to an economic doctrine that opposes governmental regulation of or interference in commerce beyond the minimum necessary for a free-enterprise system to operate
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‘crisis’ in prison is the overcrowding of prisoners. Indeterminate sentences and increased use of long determinate sentences are key drivers behind the near doubling of prison numbers; almost doubling from 1993 9% to 2014 17%. Bromley Briefing Prison Factfile (2015) reveals cost of our ‘addiction to imprisonment’ in wasted time‚ money and lives. High security prisons are not filled to capacity‚ whereas local prisons are concentrated with overcrowding. The majority of these prisoners in local prisons are
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Reform movements are a key characteristic in the antebellum period. Many groups sought to reform and uplift society in many ways‚ with many ideals in mind. Most of the antebellum reform movements reflected primarily democratic ideals. This was true through the many democratic based reforms between 1825 and 1850. One powerful and widespread movement in early America is the fight for women’s rights. This view of the women’s role was very similar to that of black slaves. Taken more serious was that
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