Elizabeth Zoccole Are Counseling Program Available in Prisons of Various Security Levels? Introduction and Abstract With respect to the topic of drug and alcohol awareness programs being available in state‚ federal or local prisons‚ the five articles that are stated below contain relevant and statistical information. Per the Bureau of Justice Statistics‚ 3 out 4 State and 4 out 5 Federal prisoners may be categorized as alcohol or drug involved offenders. If such programs are put in place
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Privatization of Prisons As state budgets throughout America become tighter because of rising costs‚ many are looking at private prisons as a way to reduce the cost in detaining inmates. Just like everything else in America there has to be a debate about it. There are those that are for the privatization of prisons and those that are against it. James A. Fagin introduced this topic in his text book CJ2013; he discussed the major selling point of private prisons‚ and the problems that states are faced
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The United States‚ with only 5% of the world’s population‚ holds 25% of the world’s prison population. There are currently 2.23 million juveniles and adults incarcerated in American jails‚ prisons‚ detention centers‚ and the like (Wagner and Rabuy 2015). With record-high rates of incarceration‚ it is not surprising that there is a great deal of controversial debate around the subject‚ including the ways in which incarcerated individuals are treated within prisons. While inmates all face different
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approaching a crossroads. The current Welfare State system has proven to be unsustainable. Of the twenty countries with the highest amount of external debt‚ eighteen of them are Western nations; if you measure debt on a per capita basis‚ this number increases to nineteen. Yet governments continue to promise more benefits to citizens and citizens are growing ever more accustomed to receiving benefits from the governments. On top of this‚ the current “pay-as-you-go” system of the working paying for the pensions
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The American system of justice should punish criminals correctly and when in serious need‚ the reform system should take over and punish them severely. The system of criminal justice in America is used to deal with crimes it cannot prevent and criminal it cannot deter is not a consistent system. It was not designed or built in one piece at one time. Its philosophic core is that a person may be punished by the government if‚ and only if‚ it has been proved by an honest and intentional process that
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The use of incarceration as a system of discipline or punishment dates back to medieval times. For hundreds of years‚ critics and punitive experts within our society have studied‚ researched‚ and made changes to the physical punishment methods and restored it with incarceration. The passage of the Anti-Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 1988 gave a crime control perspective that increasing arrests and punishments for drug offenses to have a profound impact on correctional populations and minorities (D.L
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From the second e-Activity‚ determine at least three ways in which United States’ businesses can address the adverse effects of sweatshop labor practices. Provide one specific example of each way that you have just determined to support your response. One way that U.S. businesses can address the adverse effects of sweatshop labor is that they should decline the products that come from sweatshop. Secondly‚ American businesses have a responsibility to make sure that their suppliers working conditions
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A PROJECT REPORT ON “Comparative Study of IDBI Federal’s Incomesurance with the other products available in the market.” IDBI FEDERAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. LTD. Submitted By: Ravi Gupta 11BSP2089 SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM 2012 IBS GURGAON A PROJECT REPORT ON “Comparative Study of IDBI Federal’s Incomesurance with the other products available in the market.” Submitted By: Ravi Gupta 11BSP2089 A report submitted in partial fulfilment of The requirements of
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of domestic violence. Thirty-two percent of women in prison about 4‚000 women are serving sentences for murder was convicted of killing a husband‚ ex-boyfriend or boyfriend. Six percent of women are pregnant when they enter prison. In almost all cases‚ the woman is abruptly separated from her child after giving birth. When women go to prison‚ it takes a devastating toll on the family. Sixty-seven percent of women incarcerated in state prisons are mothers of children under 18 years of age. Seventy
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Gregory Inmates and Prisons Paper Week 4 -CJAD 320-E1WW February 2‚ 2013 Imprisoning drug offenders may resonate with some who think prison is the only way to make their communities safer‚ at least while they are incarcerated. Yet‚ the overwhelming majority of drug prisoners will come back out eventually to rejoin society‚ many within just a few years or even months. Most drug prisoners will return to the community after a couple of years away‚ and will then return to prison because we have not
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