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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there are far worse issues behind those barred gates. Overcrowding in detention centers and gang violence threaten to unhinge the fragile system and the threat is increasing with each passing day. However‚ not all of the problems are prisoner related as the issue of guard violence is being brought to light. Failure to address these problems could have catastrophic results for both prisoners and law-abiding citizens. The issue of overcrowding within U.S. prisons Is nothing new but as it continues
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Let’s Find a Solution for Animal Overcrowding The overcrowding of animals in shelters has become a very important issued here in the United States. Every year thousands of thousands of animals are either abandoned or are missing from their home. This is a result of many occurrences that have been affecting our society in the passing years. For instance‚ the economic crisis that affected not only the U.S but also the entire world had a huge impact on the number of people who had to give up their
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Mass incarceration is the mass intake of people of color into the justice system. It is being labeled as the “new Jim Crow.” Meaning that it is the unspoken legal separation of people of color from whites. The old Jim Crow made it legal for segregation to exist and the new Jim Crow made it easier to hide the racism that still exists in America. Mass incarceration is the new racial caste system/the new Jim Crow because it made a clear divide between whites and blacks. It did this by promoting stereotypes
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literature review provided an array of information that allowed for a greater understanding of the topic. However‚ it was difficult to find articles that addressed the topic of minority incarceration. Most of the articles explored during this phase of research lacked a focus on the issues of minority incarceration‚ and were generally accompanied by a sub topic that deviated the conversation. The articles explored also lacked fitting methods of data collection‚ as they were either predominantly qualitative
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Does Incarceration Prevent Crimes Some form of crime has always been around and will continue to be around because it is in our human nature. The best thing we can do is to deter as much crime as we can whether it be harsher incarceration sentences or alternative sanctions treatment programs. Unfortunately‚ I feel incarceration alone is not an effective crime prevention strategy and I will explain why. A quick fix In an ideal world‚ prison and jail make sense. A criminal gets caught‚ loses their
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The incarceration rate for African Americans in the United States are extremely high. African Americans make up the majority of prisoners in the United States. According to American Journal of Sociology‚ “ In 2009‚ African Americans were nearly six times more likely to be in prisoned than whites.” Admittedly‚ we as 21st century Americans are starting to be reacquainted with the injustice of the law as a whole because it seems as if almost every news story is centered around an African American being
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Prison overcrowding is a major problem in our criminal justice system and it continues to be a 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 increase to the number of people put behind bars for drug offences. Mandatory minimum sentencing and truth in sentencing are two policies which have sent drug offenders
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Juvenile Justice: Intervention versus Incarceration Lisa Whipple Professor Sinclair-Appelt English Composition II May 1‚ 2012 Abstract The national trend towards getting tough on juvenile crime by altering the juvenile justice system to more closely mirror the adult system was examined in order to determine whether secure confinement of juvenile offenders is as effective as community-based rehabilitative and treatment programs for these youth. Politicians and public perceptions
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healthcare‚ education‚ and religious worship (“The Prison Reform Movement”). However‚ despite these adjustments‚ Walnut Jail still failed to effectively take use of the new penology. The prison did not have enough solitary confinement cells leading overcrowding(48) and the creation of more penitentiaries (Barnes 49) Auburn Penitentiary became a reformed version of the failed Walnut Street Jail; they were structured to
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