Identify the goals of Community Corrections and determine if the goals are being met. What would be your team ’s recommendation to improve Community Corrections? Today‚ 3 out of every 4 persons under correctional supervision in the United States are on some form of community-based custody-mostly probation or parole-although community corrections also includes halfway houses‚ residential centers‚ work furlough‚ and all other programs for managing the offender in the community. It is a legal status
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WGU Accreditation Audit: RAFT Task 1 Nightingale Community Hospital (NCH) has thirteen months until their next Joint Commission audit. This report will evaluate Nightingale Hospital’s compliance in The Priority Focus Area of Communication using the Universal Protocol Standards from the Joint Commission Handbook. “The Universal Protocol was created to address the continuing occurrence of wrong site‚ wrong procedure and wrong person surgery and other procedures in Joint Commission accredited organizations”
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Community based corrections is a program which supervises people who have been convicted or are facing conviction. It is a non-incarcerate system of correction. These offenders have been convicted or are facing conviction. Some offenders have entered these programs before being in jail and some serve a part of their sentence in jail before entering the program. The goals of the community based corrections would be one of providing guidance‚ program opportunities and support to the offender’s
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materials. Some Digital Imagery © copyright 2001 PhotoDisc‚ Inc. Version This manual reflects version 3.0 of Color Finesse. Document part number: 000546003‚ Revision A‚ January 2010. Contents 1 - Getting Started Why Do I Need Color Correction? ............................................... 1 Why Color Finesse? ..................................................................... 1 What’s New in Color Finesse 3.0 ................................................. 1 Compatibility With
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Roles of Corrections Officers Keli Tomlinson Ashford University Corrections CRJ 303 Karyn Goldmeier September 19‚ 2014 Roles of Corrections Officers Many people view correctional officer‚ or COs‚ as the backbone to corrections. Besides managing inmates 24 hours a day‚ seven days a week‚ usually divided up working 12 hour shifts‚ their upmost important role is to maintain a safe and secure environment for both staff and inmates. Correctional officers have one of the hardest and most challenging jobs
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Corrections in Canada Corrections in Canada have had some dramatic changes throughout the years. In this essay I will be discussing the differences between the past history and the present developments that have occurred in the past 100 years within corrections in Canada. 1867 was the year Canada became a country‚ the history of corrections goes beyond this date. Corrections during this time told a story of "you do the crime‚ you pay the consequences". Punishment was physical there was no
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This is a program called accreditation. Accreditation According to the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health care (AAAHC)‚ accreditation is intended to help improve healthcare by taking an outsider look at practices and standards in an ambulatory environment. The AAAHC offers an impartial external view to assess an organization’s standards‚ and how well the organization
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Corrections have an important place in society. There are eight philosophies of punishment in which humanity adhere. The theories of punishment are retribution‚ deterrence‚ rehabilitation‚ isolation‚ incapacitation‚ reintegration‚ restitution‚ and restoration. This essay will explain the philosophies and how it is applied in corrections today. First‚ the oldest form of punishment is retribution. Retribution is essentially revenge. There is evidence revenge occurred in 18 B.C.E. in the Code of Hammurabi
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Legal Defenses JB August 19‚ 2013 CJS/220 ESTANISLAO ROSAS In the readings that I have done I have found that there are three different types of legal defenses‚ they are: self-defense‚ insanity‚ and provocation. In a case where a person is charged with first degree premeditated murder‚ if they were to use one of the three defenses the punishment would not be the maximum that is normally imposed depending on the crime and type of defense that is used. If reasonable force
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Policing Paper There are many different forms of technology used in policing in today society. This technology is very important when it comes to policing and being able to do their jobs proficiently. Some of the technology they use is database and information technology‚ computer-aid dispatch‚ records management systems‚ and mobile computing. All of these forms of technology play a vital role in policing. Without these forms of technology being available to police there could be a higher crime
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