“African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population” (N.D. ‚ 2016). In my opinion‚ If you grew up with going to visit parents and relatives at a prison‚ It will become your norm. Most African American children grow up with one or more parent or relative in prison or jail. I personally don’t understand how a child could have a fair chance at life under those circumstances. When I was a Correctional Officer‚ I have experienced an incident that I would never
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With private prisons not cracking down on safety it makes it more dangerous for inmates to be held there. Private prisons confiscated eight times more cell phones than they did in the state facilities. They even had a higher rate of physical assaults. A big problem in any prisons is sexual assault. vox wrote an article “A federal report just confirmed it: for-profit prisons are more dangerous than public ones” is about the danger in private prisons. In this article that can be found at https://www
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“Federal Bureau of Prisons” The Federal Bureau of Prisons was established in 1930. Its main goal is to provide humane care for Federal inmates. There are 11 Federal prisons in operation. The Bureau consists of 115 institutions‚ 6 regional offices‚ a Central Office (headquarters)‚ 2 staff training centers‚ and 22 community corrections offices. The Bureau of Prisons career opportunities web page is the place where you can learn about BOP careers‚ the employment process and
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2:30 pm on Sunday‚ September 25 prisoners seized control of H7 the prison officers where taken hostage at gunpoint in order to prevent them from triggering an alarm One officer was stabbed with a craft knife‚ Another was knocked down by a blow to the back of the head. One officer who attempted to prevent the escape was shot in the head by Gerry Kelly‚ but survived. 2:50 pm on Sunday‚ September 25 prisoners were in total control of H7 without an alarm being raised dozen prisoners took
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An Evaluation of “A Study of Prisoners and Guards in a Simulated Prison” “A Study of Prisoners and Guards in a Simulated Prison” is a research article written by Craig Haney‚ Curtis Banks and Philip Zimbardo. The basis of the psychological experiment performed was to study and research the effects of being a prisoner and a guard in a simulated prison environment. The focus being the patterns and behavior characterized by both parties and to investigate how easily the subjects were susceptible to
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There are many new and different forms of technological advancements in today’s prisons. The first form is the WANDD‚ a device which is able to detect weapons that inmates are in possession of like the ones that the more violent prisoners often create. An example of a dangerous weapon is a shank. A shank is a knife shaped weapon created out of scrap metal for the blade and the handle is usually a cloth wrapped around the bottom. The second form is PharmaJet‚ a needle free injection system designed
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University of Phoenix Criminal Justice Administration CJA 453 Juan Campos February 5‚ 2009War on Drugs and Prison Overcrowding Prison overcrowding is a major problem1in our criminal justice system and it continues to bea hotly debated topic as to how we should address the problem. One of the main reasons our prison systems have a problem with overcrowding is drugs. More specifically‚ the "war on drugs" started by President Reagan in 1982 brought a dramatic increase1to the number of people put behind
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Prisons as Punitive or Rehabilitation The number of inmates in our prisons is increasing more every day. We need to find a more effective way of keep people from committing crimes and keep them out of our prison. The intervention of our prisons being punitive or rehabilitation in nature should change our prisoners. Restorative justice is a innovative movement for our prisoners to promote forward thinking (Furio‚2002). Of course it is difficult to look at a murderer with the equal belief. The thought
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Philip Zimbardo‚ born in 1933 in New York (USA) is a psychologist and investigator‚ who focus in social psychology. His best known work is the Stanford´s Prison experiment‚ searching for an explanation for the violence in the USA prisons. He wanted to know if this behaviour is due to the personalities of the guards (i.e. dispositional) or due to the prison environment and structure (i.e. situational). He later gave class in some of the best universities of the world; Yale‚ NYU and Columbia. His also known
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There was a case in Arkansas where a man that was classified as a paranoid schizophrenic murdered a shop keeper. All they did in prison for him was offer antipsychotic‚ and they did not make sure that he was taking this medication. Without the proper treatment and care this inmate was still considered a danger to himself and others. He got a lethal injection ending his life (McLellan‚ 2004). If this man would have been the proper care by the jail they would have been able to keep his paranoid schizophrenia
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