would do well to turn to prisons. Prison reform must attain the lowest economic costs‚ lowering actual taxpayer dollars spent without giving up the benefits of attaining important social goals‚ which represent another form of cost when lost. Undoubtedly‚ the current prison system is doing little to separate the US from its international counterparts in minimizing such cost‚ yet prison privatization has yielded hopeful results‚ as private correctional facilities seem to have a striking advantage over
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Minorities and Policing 1 Minorities and Policing: Unfairly Treated Dorothy J. Fells Criminal Justice 131 C. Thompson December 6‚ 2001 Minorities and Policing 2 Minorities and Policing: Unfairly Treated If we look at the past‚ we can see that there is no warm tradition of community cooperation between the African-American community and law enforcement. Minorities and Policing is an important topic because it deals with issues pertaining to how minorities are
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Prison Privatization Privatizing prisons may be one way for the prison population to get back under control. Prisons are overcrowded and need extra money to house inmates or to build a new prison. The issue of a serious need for space needs to be addressed. “As a national average‚ it costs roughly $20‚000 per year to keep an inmate in prison. There are approximately 650‚000 inmates in state and local prisons‚ double the number five years ago. This costs taxpayers an estimated $18 billion each
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Population Revision Notes * Population distribution is how a population is spread (distributed) over an area of land. * Population density is the average number of people living in an area‚ given as people per square kilometer. The equation is Population Density = * The terms densely populated and sparsely populated are used to refer to areas with high and low population densities. * The term population density refers to the average number of people in the area and tells is nothing
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In Connecticut’s urban areas‚ ethnic-minority groups mortality and morbidity profiles demonstrate the disparity in outcomes primarily for Black and Hispanics residents. Black Americans have a death rate 1.2 times greater than white non-Hispanics. There is a higher rate of chronic illnesses in both ethnic groups including: heart disease‚ hypertension‚ and cancer. The incidence of respiratory disease and asthma for both children and adults was significantly higher Connecticut’s urban communities
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Perspective on Due Process Looking into the different perspectives on justice I would have to say I agree with the due process perspective. After reading different types of justice on how criminals and noncriminals should be treated I believe this process is the fairest at handling all types of cases. The reason I agree with this process is that the main idea is all about fairness and it allows those that do not have means or resources to defend themselves are given access to receive qualified
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Prisons and Jails Final Essay Teketta Fleming Kaplan University CJ101-04 Professor McCauley 12-14-2010 How Does Our Correctional System Punish Offenders? The government has imposed punishment as a means to control crime. There are four key justifications for punishing criminals: retribution‚ incapacitation‚ deterrence‚ and rehabilitation (Seiter‚ R.P.‚ 2005). These four justifications serve as the goals of the United States correctional system. The other side of retribution can be simply
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vulnerable population can be a group of people that show factors of an increased chance of their health status becoming poor. This can be that they are lacking access to care and their chance of illness is higher than other patients (Stanhope and Lancaster‚ 2014). In other words‚ vulnerable populations are at risk for poor physical‚ psychological or social health (De Chesnay‚ 2012). One population in particular are adults living in poverty. Vulnerability can occur in any population leading to
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African Americans are incarcerated in state prisons at more than 5 times the rate of whites on average. For example in Oklahoma has the highest incarceration rate for African-Americans. Approximately 4.6% of all African-American males in Oklahoma are incarcerated compared to of only 0.9% white males. In California 1 out of every 22 African-American adult male is in state prison. The racial disparity is greatest in the category of drug arrests and indicates institutional discrimination against African-Americans
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Prison Rape is no secret in today’s society. The American media has portrayed prison rape as a joke (Don’t drop the soap) in countless films‚ television shows‚ and in music‚ but have not realized the extent of how dangerous this crime is. Some cops even use this method as a means to get a confession from a suspect. A major obstacle in solving Prison rape is the notorious under-reporting of the crime. Only 16 percent of prison rape victims report their victimization. Reasons for under reporting
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