A prison system can be effective if set up correctly. I can tell you our prison system is a joke. Many people look forward to getting into prison because it’s easier than being on the streets. They are well fed; they often get access to books‚ televisions‚ games‚ and even sports rec leagues and such. Their medical is fully covered by the state and there isn’t any real back breaking work to be done other than fighting off your prison mate. I believe that criminals convicted of the hard crimes
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issues in our society. One ethical issue that has been risen are if prisons are really being used as a deterrence for crime‚ or have the economic tags to the inmates overlooked that? The issue of whether the reasoning behind private prisons are ethical or not will be further addressed in the paper using two theoretical perspectives: the functionalism theory and the conflict theory. However‚ I will be arguing that private prisons plays a beneficial role in our everyday lives. Ethical Issue and Theoretical
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The private prisons industry is growing quite rapidly‚ and many have questioned their intentions. Those who are against the private prisons say that profit purely drives them and that they will do whatever it takes to make sure they turn a profit each quarter. The first key argument that they mention is in regards to the safety aspect of the private prisons since they tend to hire improperly trained employees. Followed by the dependency problem that could result from having private prisons take over
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The private prisons industry is growing rapidly‚ in the year 2011‚ companies that were a part of the private prison industry brought in "$1.7 billion: [in] total revenue recorded by CCA" (Lee) and many have questioned the intentions of the companies that own and operate those facilitates. The history of private prisons can be traced "as far back as 1852 when San Quentin was the first for-profit prison in the U.S." (“Private Jails”). Private prisons did not become popular again until the 1980s‚ when
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It is through this particular study on the private prison system by Burkhardt and Jones that sociologists and even criminologists realize the historical importance of the private prison systems. Established within the early 1980s‚ the introduction of the private prison systems became as a technique to reducing the amount of litigation and judicial oversight demonstrated to the inmates within the federal prison systems. The private firms (prisons) were established in order to provide superior conditions
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Private prisons scattered across the country house tens of thousands inmates. The companies behind some of the largest private prisons claim they are lifting the weight of taxpayer dollars funding federal prisons. In a billion dollar industry‚ many find it hard to believe that they’re not working for their own best interest. Humans rights organizations across the country have challenged the corporations behind the industry. These groups argue that this system doesn’t work to rehabilitate prisoners
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communication process will be interrupted. The elements of communication play a vital role for effective and efficient communication and for the sole purpose of this assignment‚ the pages that follow discuss the
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Private Prisons and Jails Learning Team A CJA/303 June 9‚ 2010 James Wilson Advantages and Disadvantages of Private Prisons and Jails In the United States‚ prison overcrowding and budget cuts within the criminal justice system have lead to an increase in the need and the development of private prisons and jails. According to Wikimedia Foundation‚ Inc. (2010)‚ "A private prison is a place in which individuals are physically confined by a third party that is
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Juvenile Boot Camps are Safe and Effective Are juvenile boot camps safe Effective? I believe juvenile boot camps are safe and effective‚ only in certain circumstances. Just as criminals go to jail and are released‚ committing other crimes‚ so do us teenagers. For example‚ my cousin has gotten caught stealing merchandise from a Macy’s store. Months later attempted to steal from a Champs shoes store. The consequences are too lenient. In this generation‚ kids live for the moment‚ if the consequences
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Public prisons and private prisons are different. You ask what the difference is between the two. Well‚ public prisons have better quality of confinement for inmates and have well trained management‚ even though it cost too much; private prisons lack quality of confinement and have poorly trained management‚ but saves the taxpayers money. With the push for private prisons to house non-treating‚ less violent inmates because of over populated public prisons. The care for inmates is substantially lower
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