Topic: Condoms should be distributed in schools: agree or disagree Narrowed Topic: Condoms are useful in many ways and are a viable way to illustrate proper sexual procedures in high schools in Jamaica. The topic of sex is a very controversial matter especially among teenagers. Teenagers are at a point in their lives where hormones are at a high and they feel the need to indulge in sexual activities. Therefore it is important that teenagers understand the importance of safe sex and the
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Punishment in Prison The criminal justice system sentences people to prison for various felonious crimes they have admitted to or have been found guilty of. A prison sentence is punishment for those types of crimes. However‚ for some‚ a prison sentence in today’s world is nothing more than a vacation from reality. State and Federal Prisons have turned into a recreation hall and free pass from hard labor. Prisons should implement the punishments they were intended for‚ and that being isolation and
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Prison Environment Jennifer O’Neal CJS 230 Jean O’Gallagher July 21‚ 2011 Prison is a cramped‚ confined‚ and sometimes dangerous environment. There are prison rules (prison code) and for the majority of the prisons there are inmate rules (inmate code). When prison rules are broken‚ inmates are charged accordingly with reprimands. When inmate code is broken inmates are subject to attack by other inmates‚ which will lead to injury or possibly death. In prison‚ there is no privacy. Inmates are
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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 challenges while being imprisoned
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Most prison gangs do more than offer simple protection for their members. Most often‚ prisons gangs are responsible for any drug‚ tobacco or alcohol handling inside correctional facilities (Garbarino 50). Furthermore‚ many prison gangs involve themselves in prostitution‚ assaults‚ kidnappings and murders. Prison gangs often seek to intimidate the other inmates‚ pressuring them to relinquish their food and other resources (Garbarino 59). Also‚ prison gangs often exercise a large
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“deinstitutionalize” the mentally ill – prisons and jails became the new de facto mental health asylums. In 2015‚ according to the Treatment Advocacy Center‚ in 44 of the 50 states‚ “the largest prison or jail held more people with serious mental illness than the largest psychiatrist hospital.” Therefore‚ in a country where incarcerating people with mental challenges seems to be a more viable option than treatment‚ it is inevitable to question the policies and
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have instituted rigorous classification instruments designed to maximize the effectiveness of placements‚ thereby cutting down on the cost of incarceration. Prison classification is a method of assessing inmate risks that balances the security needs of the institution with treatment needs the individual. Effective classification can reduce prison infractions and create a safer environment of both inmates and staff. External classification places an inmate at a custody level that will determine where
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Management positions in prisons are known to be very demanding. Correctional facilities are difficult to operate and are forced to deal with overcrowding which leads to an outnumbered staff and a continuous flow of violent and dangerous inmates. An issue that management faces is the occurrence of riots. According to dictionary.com‚ a riot is a disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons acting together in a disrupting and tumultuous manner in carrying out their private purposes.
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workhouses and the inmates were typically held at the jail. Jails continued to house pretrial inmates and by the end of the nineteenth century‚ almost every United States city had constructed and operated a jail for this purpose. The state and federal prison systems are alike in the concept that they both keep those who are accused and found guilty incarcerated and away from the
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Prisons are full of criminals and aggressive angry people; riots are not a very common occurrence with prison guards keeping most inmates under control‚ but they do happen. After the riot subdues‚ since it is common for some inmates to detain a guard or other prison employee so that the riot can take place without interruption‚ the inmates would be charged for false imprisonment‚ hostage taking‚ and most evidently rioting would be the main charge for the inmates involved. I would say false imprisonment
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