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    The opportunity to present my application to you for consideration enthuses me. The position I desire to apply for is the correctional officer position‚ in Meridian‚ Minnesota as posted on Indeed.com‚ on March 10‚ 2016. I recently completed my Associates in Criminal Justice and am extremely interested in putting the knowledge that I acquired to work within the Department of Corrections. I realize I have not had much recent work experience however‚ I have ensured that I have developed various skills

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    in the Correctional Population Christina Kaba University of Phoenix Online Cultural Diversity in Criminal Justice CJA 420 Kevin Moore April 12‚ 2005 Racial Disparity in the Correctional Population Racial disparity in the correctional population refers to the difference in the number of minorities versus whites represented inside institutions. "The American Correctional Association acknowledges that racial disparity exists within adult and juvenile detention and correctional systems

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    A correctional facility is intended to be a place of rehabilitation for convicts. In practice‚ however‚ it is used as a mean to control and break down the sentenced individuals When it is time for their release‚ inmates are not prepared to live a successful life‚ but they are released with the notion that they will soon return. Our prison system is a recipe to keep criminals incarcerated‚ and its practices to punish inmates rather than rehabilitate them are leading to a country wide epidemic of mental

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    Rose’s correctional facility is a top notch‚ high quality prison that functions properly and efficiently. Prisoners are locked up safely behind titanium walls equipped with electric barbed wire at the top to be sure to keep citizens safe and out of criminals reach. Hallways to and from cells is locked up safely with gates that can only be accessed by guards who have keys to open the gates. Prisoners start with basic necessities like soap‚ cloths‚ and a toothbrush. As they go along and show they have

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    CheckPoint: The Correctional Subculture CheckPoint: The Correctional Subculture Terry Bonner ADJ/235 February 11th‚ 2014 Yolanda White Johnson‚ Ph.D. CheckPoint: The Correctional Subculture 1 CheckPoint: The Correctional Subculture Respect‚ professional manner‚ consistency‚ integrity‚ honesty and non bias to the incarcerated is expected from a correctional officer. However‚ in the correctional subculture unethical behavior is evident. Correctional officers hold

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    Race and gender issues have always impacted the correctional system. For many race was a determining factor that was based on an inmate’s treatment. If an inmate was white he/ or she would be treated with more respect. This was especially of the person had money. Many other things such as economic status and gender also were taken into consideration. “Some of the earliest descriptions of criminal law and depictions of correctional practice make clear that who one was demographically (class‚ race

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    Correctional boot camps are short-term residential program that resemble military basic training and target convicted adult offenders. Boot camps first appeared in Georgia (1983) and Oklahoma (1984). Boot camps are designed as alternative sanctions to reduce recidivism rates‚ as well as prison populations and operating costs. Correctional boot camp programs were developed to reduce recidivism by changing inmate’s problems and behaviors that contribute to their odds of reoffending (“Crime Solutions”)

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    The correctional system has three main goals: punish‚ protect the population and rehabilitate the offender. However‚ it is unclear how well the modern U.S. correctional system achieves these goals and whether the money invested in the correctional system might be better spent. (http://www.ehow.com/about_5087269_role-correctional-system.html) The only goal the correctional system has is to punish those who are incarcerated‚ so they never commit another crime and have to come back. It is the most

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    Four Elements of the Correction System Over the years the correction system has become a massive web of processing‚ treating and caring for more than 7 million people. Though not all of the 7 million people are housed in a jail or a prison‚ many are on probation or parole. And even though some of these are on probation and parole they are still considered part of the correction system. The four elements of the corrections system is probation‚ parole‚ jail‚ and prison. These four elements are in

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    important it correctional health care. The National Commission on Correctional Health Care‚ also known as NCCHC‚ is a government agency that regulates prison health

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