How Prison Overcrowding Affects State Budgets By: Clarissa Taylor JUST 6510/ JPS Planning & Budgeting April 18‚ 2015 This paper will discuss how state and federal budgets are affected by the overcrowding of prisons. I chose this topic mainly because I use to work for the Alabama Department of Corrections from 2002 to 2005 as a Correctional Officer I. During the time I was employed for the department‚ I witness a lot of overcrowding in Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. Things had gotten
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The United States represents 5 percent of the world’s population yet it consumes 75 percent of the world’s prescription drugs. A prescription drug is a medicine crafted by pharmaceutical companies that legally requires a medical prescription to be dispensed. In contrast‚ Illegal drugs are obtained unlawfully through undocumented transaction. Due to substance abuse these prescription and illicit drugs combined‚ kill tens of thousands of people each year. The three mainly abused types of prescription
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Private Prisons and Jails Learning Team A CJA/303 June 9‚ 2010 James Wilson Advantages and Disadvantages of Private Prisons and Jails In the United States‚ prison overcrowding and budget cuts within the criminal justice system have lead to an increase in the need and the development of private prisons and jails. According to Wikimedia Foundation‚ Inc. (2010)‚ "A private prison is a place in which individuals are physically confined by a third party that is contracted by a local‚ state‚ or federal
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Special education needs. The last fifty years have seen significant changes in the education of students with special learning needs. An estimated 1.7 million pupils in the UK have special educational needs (SEN)‚ with over 250‚000 having statements of SEN (Russell 2003‚ 215). Many positive advances have been made in educating these children‚ with special needs children receiving more options and learning opportunities. How these opportunities are presented has been an ongoing source of debate
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been long suggested that homelessness and substance abuse are in some way connected in a lot of cases. While this point has not been debated‚ the issue has become which has occurred first‚ the substance abuse or the homelessness. Has the loss of a home drove people to abuse substances or have people’s illicit substance abuse led to misappropriation of funds and ultimately foreclosure and homelessness. The debate has raged on about whether the substance abuse is a cause for homelessness or a consequence
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correction facilities classifications; jails and prisons. Nonetheless‚ jail is defined as “Yet‚ while prison populations deserve considerable attention‚ it is important not to overlook America’s jails on any given day‚ nearly three-quarters of a million people are incarcerated in jails throughout the country. And just like prisons‚ jail populations have grown exponentially since the 1970s. consequently‚ in 1978‚ there were 158‚394 inmates in American jails. and by 1988 that number had climbed to
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Substance Abuse within the Profession of Nursing Vocabulary: Diversion: Addiction prevalence within different specialties of nursing: o Emergency room nurses and psychiatric nurses have a higher rate of abuse. o A higher rate of smoking was also found in psychiatric nurses. o A higher rate of cocaine abuse was found in critical care nurses. o Higher rates of alcohol abuse- binge drinking‚ 5 or more drinks per occasion- was found in oncology nurses. o General pediatrics‚ women’s health‚ school
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Federalism What is the federal system? The federal system is broken into two main parts. The two parts in federalism are National Governments and State governments. It took so much time and effort to force the state and national government to share power. They came together and finalized the idea of having listed powers for the national and state government. The national government has enumerated and concurrent powers and the states have reserved powers. Although they both have strong powers they
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workouts try to emulate their moves and touchdown dances. But one thing a young athletes should never do is copy or make the same mistakes athletes are making today. From preform enhancing drugs all the way to alcohol and marijuana these substance are hurting athletes‚ organization‚ and the NFL shield. So far in the NFL over thirty player have been suspended for violating the NFL policy for substances abuse or preform enhancing drugs. The NFL is only in week 11 so far and has close to a full football team
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The Improvement of the Prison System When someone gets put into prison most people see it as a time to punish that individual for the offense they were put there for. As knowledge of how these prisoners live becomes more public information‚ and argument has arisen on whether they are placed in prison for punishment or for rehabilitation. The prison system should be used for rehabilitation. Everyday life of an inmate is miserable for most of them. Some of the prisoners have regrets‚ others just
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