officers‚ racial conflict‚ inadequate security‚ and many inmates incarcerated for crimes against other people. The main inmates that are at risk are non gang affiliated inmates‚ convicted of sexual crimes and so on. It becomes a huge problem when prison administrators look the other way or dare not even want to look at the facts or admit it could be happening. There are many problems that can be posed by having mentally ill‚ elderly‚ and minority inmates. Having elderly inmates age 55 years or
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sentenced to life in prison to be eligible for parole‚ the Supreme Court ruled in 2011 that there is no absolute right or legal right to receive parole (Swarthout v. Cooke and Cate v. Clay). Furthermore‚ people who argue that abolishing parole would have a negative effect on society do not have to look much further than the State of Virginia‚ where violent crime was reduced by 23% since they abolished parole. Criminal sentences should be based on justice‚ and not on a predictive system that is based
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try and help with jail and prison overcrowding. Some of these solutions are known as front-door solutions while others are known as back door solutions. Front door solutions to prison overcrowding are frequently directed at prosecutors and judges and the way that they handle offenders before and during sentencing. “Some observers suggest greater use of diversion and/or assignment to community service agencies‚ where some offenders may bypass the criminal justice system altogether and remain free
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Women Coping in Prison: How Mothers in Prison can Stay Connected to Their Children Columbia Southern University Over the past thirty years‚ throughout every state there has been a drastic increase in the number of women in prison. There are only nine states which have a prison nursery in operation or currently under development. According to the “Bureau of Justice Statistics in 2004 four percent of women in state prisons and three percent of women in federal prisons were pregnant at
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UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX Prison and The War on Drugs Week One Assignment CJA 234 [Type the author name] 10/4/2011 Prison and the War on Drugs. The war on drugs has been implemented for more than 30 years. Currently‚ there are close to a half million persons imprisoned on drug charges in this country. That is a tenfold increase over the 50‚000 in 1980. (jrank.org‚ 2011) In the past few years‚ close to $40 billion has been spent annually fighting the war on drugs. As a result
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guilt. This report deals with the issue of the mental health patients in prison and who are on remand. By looking it at a different angle‚ it may be that the association between criminality and mental illness flows not from a causal relationship‚ but is only the result of inadequate health systems. Lack of adequate number of hospital beds and lack of community alternatives. Delivering quality healthcare services in prisons is a complex undertaking‚ hampered by not only the high level of need amongst
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to be a common theme in the realities that ex-convicts face once outside of prison (as cited in Williams-Queen‚ 2014). This is consistent with Wilson and Davis’s study (2006) that found that ex-offenders often experience stigma from friends‚ family‚ and others. This stigma affects the ex-offenders’ future by the way of employment‚ social systems‚ confidence and the overall worth one feels for themselves. Another example of how peer relationships can lead to negative outcomes is when these relationships
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rehabilitation‚ prison is a breeding ground for criminal enterprises. Ineffective inmate treatment and education such as sex offender treatment and drug abuse rehabilitation programs further
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A Look at Racial Disparity in the United States Prison System Micah O’Daniel Institutional Corrections 2/22/11 Racial inequality in the American criminal justice system has a strong effect of many realms of society such as the family life‚ and employment. Education and race seem to be the most decisive factors when deciding who goes to jail and what age cohort has the greatest percentage chance of incarceration. Going to prison no longer affects just the individual who committed the crime
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Discharged Prisoners: Rehabilitation not Segregation What are the chances that a young teen will be able to get a job‚ buy a house‚ and support themselves without any outside help? Slim to none. Well‚ many people in prison have approximately the same amount of education and resources but they are still expected to achieve those goals. Jails are becoming increasingly crowded and recidivism rates are climbing but no one seems to understand why because the crime rates are relatively stable. The number
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