Running head: The Needs of Special Offenders The Needs of Special Offenders Professor Gregory Baugh Jeremiah Ritzenthaler University of Phoenix/CJA 234 The Needs of Special offenders Inmates with special needs‚ the mentally ill‚ and the substance abusing inmates all make up a large number of the prison population. These inmates affect the prison systems in different ways. Providing programs for the mentally ill inmates is extremely difficult for correctional staff. A very high percentage
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behaviour as any other human being. Just because a person is mentally ill does not make him worthless. A mentally ill persons rights flow from the basic right to life as in Article 21 of the constitution which includes right to living accomodation ‚ food water medical treatment education‚ acceptable livelihood‚ income and compatible life‚ right to privacy‚ speedy trial‚ information and means of communication.The human rights Act states that every law must be defined to match the human right in the
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A penitentiary is an institution established and controlled by the government. The penitentiary system in the United Stated has as its primary goal of detaining‚ housing and punishing individuals who have been convicted of felony crimes. Up until the 19th century‚ prison systems were not common. The common jail dates back to ancient times‚ but was used to detain persons temporarily until he or she was found innocent‚ fined‚ or subjected to corporal punishment. Generally‚ corporal punishment was
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Was Hitler mentally ill? There is a great deal of debate on whether Adolf Hitler might have been mentally ill. Several books were written on this issue and one of them‚ The Medical Casebook of Adolf Hitler by Leonard L. Heston‚ MD‚ and Renate Heston‚ RN‚ suggested that Hitler did not suffer from bipolar‚ schizophrenic‚ paranoid schizophrenic or Parkinson’s disease. He was diagnosed as a chronic addict to amphetamine and barbiturate. The authors offered numerous clues to this addiction. Hilter
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RESEARCH OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND NURSING A major health problem in the United States is substance abuse. Substance abuse is the misuse of‚ illegal drugs‚ alcohol‚ inhalants prescription drugs‚ and other substances that change how the mind and body work. Drugs that are most commonly abused are alcohol‚ nicotine‚ marijuana‚ amphetamines‚ barbiturates‚ cocaine‚ opium alkaloids‚ and synthetic opioid. These drugs are either excessively used or not used for its intended purpose. Substance abuse transcends
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culture‚ and knowledge can influence the stigmas about the mentally ill especially when it is negative and not positively informative. This can cause an individual to not want to seek help or disclose to family that they need care and this limits their access to care. Discriminatory practices are common in the work environment that can cause a person to not be hired for a job as the company believes the stigma-myth that a mentally ill individual is unreliable and unpredictable‚ and may pose a threat
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Perhaps the most complicated consequence of the interaction between the mentally ill and the criminal justice system is the reality of incarceration. Unfortunately‚ it is too often the case where a person with schizophrenia is convicted of a crime and incarcerated‚ but as a result of their mental illness negatively impacting their trial. This was the case of Theodore Kaczynski‚ a man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and accused of sending bombs through the mail. Kaczynski “continued to tell
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Effects of substance abuse Substance abuse can simply be defined as a pattern of harmful use of any substance for mood-altering purposes. Medline ’s medical encyclopedia defines drug abuse as "the use of illicit drugs or the abuse of prescription or over-the-counter drugs for purposes other than those for which they are indicated or in a manner or in quantities other than directed." Generally‚ when most people talk about substance abuse‚ they are referring to the use of illegal drugs. Most
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Substance Abuse Substance Abuse is a problem for social workers around the country no matter where you go. There are a number of different social problems‚ and social systems that a social worker will have to deal with when working in this field. I will hope to address the problem of substance abuse‚ and the different techniques used in order to cure a client suffering from substance abuse. Substance abuse social workers assess and treat individuals with substance abuse problems‚ which include
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criminal justice system there is a striking question: should mentally ill offenders be held accountable for their actions? Now how do we consider some one mentally ill? To start off we define what a mental illness is which refers to a wide range of mental health conditions and disorders that affect your mood‚ thinking and behavior. The mentally ill are simply those who suffer such conditions and disorders that have made them somewhat outcasts of society. Those who are mentally ill may suffer from
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