Running Head: PRISON TERM POLICY RECOMMENDATION PROPOSAL 1 Steven Schultz CJA/ 314 October 21‚ 2014 Anita Gopaul- Alexander PRISON TERM POLICY RECOMMENDATION PROPOSAL 2 Prison Term Policy Recommendation Proposal I am a criminologist advisor to a member of the state legislature. There will be a bill‚ that will be voted on and if passed it will double the maximum prison term for anyone convicted of armed robbery. My boss and other members of the legislature knows that
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of America’s prisons is owned by large‚ cheating‚ scheming companies who aren’t trying to achieve justice‚ they’re trying to obtain wealth. The two most eminent companies in the lucrative business‚ GEO group and CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America) are currently making several hundred million dollars a year. How do they make that money? Private prisons make the government pay them to hold the government’s prisons‚ but they also charge them for not keeping the prison full‚ by influencing
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Katherine Wallace N00621910 April 25‚ 2011 Beyond The Prison Paradigm James Gilligan relays an enlightening message in his article‚ Beyond the Prison Paradigm: From Provoking Violence to Preventing It by Creating “Anti-Prisons”‚ about the history and sole purpose of jails. Gilligan dates his research about jails all the way back from the first civilization known to man‚ Sumerian‚ to the jails we see and know so well today. At the beginning of time jails literally meant “house of darkness”
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get badly beaten. The warden believed that his prison system was based on discipline and religion. Compare current prison policy in California with those policy used by the states policy in your viewed movie. The prison system will have random cell inspections‚ in the morning and before bedtime‚ the prisoners will have to come out of their cells when they are told to make sure they are present. Prisoners will have to follow the rules of the prison if not followed they will be punished by either
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The Racial disparities in the US prison population has been a problem for a very long time despite only being brought to the attention of the people of America. Unable to help themselves‚ prisoners relied on others to get the word out. The word is that the way the prison system treats blacks and other minorities is prejudiced and unjust. We are supposed to help others so how is keeping minorities‚ who in most cases‚ have committed small crimes which pent up and give them a record. We need to look
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privatized prisons specifically‚ publicized and sponsored as low cost and efficient with room for corporate profits‚ further analysis indicates a deeper underlying problem an issue barred behind the cold steel gateways‚ roaming through the gaol corridors‚ a corporeal beast living beyond the superficial‚ infesting and undermining the integrity and intellectual origins of the Department of Justice and their duty for “fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.” Prison system has
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According to many women‚ their prison system is much more limited than their male counterparts. Many female ex-convicts describe the women’s prison system as "safe" (Warren‚ 2005). This perception is correct in many ways. Many women’s prisons do not offer rehabilitation or post-release help as many male prisons do. Oftentimes‚ women commit non-violent crimes to be sent back to prison. Female ex-convicts are denied access to welfare and many other government programs. Women’s prison mirrors their male counterpart’s
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positive outcome financial feasibility should be considering top priority. As stated by Schmitt et al. (2010)‚ “the financial costs of our corrections policies are staggering”. The following alternatives focuses on ways of reducing overcrowding in prisons system. Given the advantages and disadvantages of these alternatives‚ this plan to assist policymakers and practitioners to tackle overcrowding in a systematic and affordable way. The results should help to ensure that incarceration is only used when
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Summary Assignment Joan Petersilia in Wilson Quarterly publishes the article “Beyond the Prison Bubble‚” in the Winter 2011. Petersilia explains several alternative solutions to the U.S’s overcrowded imprisonment systems. She talks about how research has come to prove that crime rates and recidivism can be decreased. Furthermore‚ Petersilia’s article outlines the evolution of accepting this fact‚ as well as developing‚ funding‚ and refining various intensive rehabilitation programs. The first section
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Corrections Jails vs. Prisons ------------------------------------------------- Andrea K. Wester ------------------------------------------------- April 30‚ 2012 To start‚ this paper has been more than challenging for me. Never before has my eyes been more opened to such differences. And to warn you I may have more information than needed‚ but no surprise there. Here bellow is what I have come up with on the differences between jail systems and prisons systems. There is not a major difference
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