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    There are many obstacles that an inmate who is about to be released from prison after 25years would have to cross (Schmalleger‚ & Smykla‚ 2015). An inmate who is leaving prison would have to start their life over from the beginning. When the inmate is released from prison they would have to find housing if there are no friends or family to help them‚ they would have to find a job‚ and they would have to learn how to manage their money. In the new age of technology‚ they would be lost with never have

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    Sydia Lime house Prison has become an society within itself the word society is defined as a structured community of people a structured community of people bound together by similar traditions‚ institutions or nationality. The people that are in prison are place into groups based on crimes which become communities groups of people that have something in common CRIME. When someone talks about the prison subculture you are basically describing what is known as the convict code. Subcultures

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    January 12‚ 2016 Report by: Penny Oleksiak & Duncan Qubti PD Penitentiary PD Penitentiary is a moderate security prison. At the PD Penitentiary our main goal is to rehabilitate troubled teens and young adults between the ages of 18 and 25. The PD penitentiary is a male penitentiary located on Douglas island‚ British Columbia. It offers psychological therapy to help tackle the root causes behind the crimes the committed‚ and to provide problem solving techniques to help cope

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    Prison Reform Learn to recognize the influence of socially sanctioned hatred. What I mean by socially sanctioned hatred is simple: We human beings seem to have a built-in temptation to objectify other groups of people in order to feel superior to them or to find a scapegoat for all our problems. It’s reflected in language‚ in words like "nigger‚" "Faggot‚" "slant-eyes‚" "gook‚" and so on. Certainly‚ among most of us‚ that kind of prejudicial speech is not acceptable. And yet‚ among decent people

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    jails and prisons. Gangs date back as far as biblical times and consist of a group of individuals that have similar ideas and are working toward a certain outcome. Individuals in gangs inside and outside of jails have caused many social problems that range from drug dealing and using‚ gambling‚ murders‚ and human trafficking. Gangs work and are established like society in general. There are the leaders of the gang and then the people who follow them. The Conflict Theory can be applied to prison gangs

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    The Prison Workout: A Total Body Exercise Routine Some prison inmates have nothing but a sink‚ a toilet‚ their bed‚ and a few square feet of space at their disposal. They need an exercise routine that can be done in a confined space without equipment. The "Prison Workout‚" which was nicknamed by some people who saw prisoners without access to weights doing it‚ is designed to develop strength‚ endurance‚ speed‚ agility‚ and balance. It also produces gains in muscle‚ losses in body fat‚ and

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    protests. These protests were an attempt to get corrections officials to improve the horrid living conditions at Attica. The sudden unity of the multicultural inmates struck fear in the prison officials. However‚ no agreements were made and overcrowding was still an issue. The day before the uprising occurred‚ prison guards had attempted to diffuse what they perceived to be sparring between a black and a white inmate.  The two inmates were said to have been rough-housing during a warm up for a football

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    Going to prison isn’t a vacation that you save up for. There are no pom trees or crystal clear beaches to swim in. It is a place where people who have committed serious crimes go as punishment. Some are even executed. Although‚ there are many people who have committed heinous crimes there are those who are incarcerated innocently. The problem with this isn’t that things happen‚ it’s that people are incarcerated while being innocent suffer because they spent most of their lives in prison for a crime

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    The prison cell walls are cold hard concrete walls‚ they are rough too the touch‚ the smell of concrete dust from the carving of the previous cellie fills the air. The three concrete walls and the metal barred door are more intimidating that a hungry grizzly bear finding his first meal in months. You never get used to the metal barred door slamming behind you‚ it just sends a chill down your spin like you’re in the middle of a frozen lake and the thin ice is slowly cracking beneath you. The wall

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    no one and it would be beneficial to remove them from the prison system‚ and into the parole system (D’Elia‚ 2010). Prison Cost Prisons are expensive to keep open‚ and most of the money to keep them open comes from the taxpayers. A study in 2012 showed that prisons cost American taxpayers approximately 5.4 billion dollars each year (Henrichson & Delaney‚ 2012). These cost include various expenses that include maintaining the prisons‚ employees salaries‚ educational training‚ providing benefits

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