SWOK 534- Fall 2012 Mental Health in Texas prisons and jails October 13‚ 2012 University of Southern California A. Introduction: Issue‚ Policy‚ Problem: Texas has approximately 24.3 million residents according to 2010 state statistics from the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Close to 833‚000 adults live with a serious mental illness. Within these 24.3 million residents of Texas in 2008‚ approximately 37‚700 adults with a mental illness were incarcerated (NAMI.org). Additionally‚ there
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It is no surprise that prison populations across the United States have heavily increased over the last couple of decades. With this heavy increase comes several different issues‚ such as overcrowding‚ more taxpayer money being spent on prisons and prisoners‚ and more people being placed in correctional facilities as employees. The major theme displayed by these different issues is money being spent to build prisons‚ house prisoners‚ and staff the prisons. According to Merlo and Benekos (2000)‚
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INDIGENOUS OVERREPRESENTATION IN THE CANADIAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM The increasing status of Indigenous overrepresentation is a clear indication of the failures of the Canadian Criminal Justice System. When analyzing the historical and current situation of the relationship between Indigenous persons and the CJS it becomes apparent why the Supreme Court of Canada refers to this situation as the ‘Crisis in the Canadian Justice System’. Correctional Service Canada statistics have indicated
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Midterm Return to Assessment List Part 1 of 1 - 100.0 Points Question 1 of 26 4.0 Points European approaches to correctional strategies largely reflect those found in the United States. A. True B. False Answer Key: False Question 2 of 26 4.0 Points Most people who work in community-based correctional programs do so because they want to have a positive impact on the world around them by enhancing public safety‚ aiding offenders in need‚ or increasing offender
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(http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/people/domestic-and-family-violence) In recent weeks in mainstream media there have been lots of commentary on Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the appalling rate of Aboriginal men and women in incarceration as a direct result of family violence‚ drug and alcohol issues‚ Intergenerational trauma and other more serious offences.
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facing the court system is 28 times more likely to be placed in juvenile detention than their non-indigenous counterparts. This system is in dire straits and is in need of a new approach involving early intervention‚ prevention and diversion with incarceration as a last resort that has all become known as ‘justice reinvestment’. In NSW the average annual cost of incarcerating a juvenile is $237‚980 an the statistics show that this approach has failed as more than 30% of adult prisoners were first incarcerated
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Daniel Sam K. Bañas‚ 120483 Carlos Rivera English 12 7 February‚ 2012 The Decriminalization of Illicit Drugs in the Philippines From the year 2002 to the year 2012‚ reports of illegal drug use and addiction to illegal drugs have risen in the Philippines‚ as explained by Tom Bañas the Task Force Commander of the Anti-Illegal Drug and Special Operation Task Force or AIDSOFT. The Philippine government in response to these reports sanctioned the formation of agencies specializing in dealing with
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to help keep the environment safe from harm. After evaluating the past‚ present‚ and future trends of community-based corrections‚ the program has helped develop other alternatives for offenders. This will help the criminals from receiving the incarceration sentence and offer treatment programs for better results. Correctional facilities‚ involving the law enforcement agencies may require fiscal responsibilities within the facility. The security environment is different from other facilities as the
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abiding citizens they must be prepared for life on the outside. Survival is one of the key elements of human nature. People will do whatever they feel necessary to survive; due to the lack of programs to help prisoners make the transition from incarceration to society living most “free” prisoners are not really free. They are faced with extremely difficult obstacles with little resources to assist them. The lack of jobs for ex-offenders and prisoners being discharged with no place to go‚ no money
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According to Nate Balis the director of juvenile’s justice strategy group he stated that “ incarceration of juveniles is not helping the community stop a person to stop committing crime it persuades them to keep doing what they’re doing and don’t care about life at all.” (Balis) The second finding I found on pretrial justice is that the justice
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