Cuban Prison Systems Cuba‚ the tiny island ninety miles south of Florida has faced severe hardship for centuries‚ despite it being a communist country and the trade embargo put in place against the United States‚ Cuba has one of the harshest prison systems in the world. According to the United Nations‚ there are over 294 prisons and correctional camps in Cuba that house over 57‚000 prisoners spread across the nearly 300 facilities (Jackson 1). These inmates range from political dissidents
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The Flaws and Effects of Prison In the book‚ A place to Stand‚ by Jimmy Santiago Baca‚ Baca writes about prison and how being incarcerated can have impact on a person and their family. With the most beautiful‚ strong and poetic language‚ Baca tells us the story of all the people who faces difficult times in order to find their place in the world. Baca always felt like he had no place to stand in society because‚ all of his life he was put down by his family and friends. From the age of five Baca
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This has contributed to overcrowding of prisons across America. In order to ease the overcrowding in prisons‚ rehabilitation through court sentenced drug treatment programs is a practical and economical alternative. Assigning offenders to applicable drug treatment programs would decrease overcrowding caused by drug offenses‚ lower recidivism rates‚ and provide savings for the criminal justice system. By placing drug offenders in a treatment program‚ prisons would see some relief from overcrowding
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System (CRM 4302) Department de Criminology University of Ottawa December 11th 2012 Many individuals believe that the criminal system and its institutions are flawed. These critiques have been brought on by the ineffectiveness of prisons to reform individuals‚ the ineptness of the system to reduce crime rates‚ the lack of focus on victims of crimes‚ as well as the racist‚ classist and sexist practices existing in these institutions. Therefore‚ we can ask ourselves if the elimination
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close Close Security Prison In a close security prison‚ offenders housed here are an escape/flight risk‚ they have histories of assaults‚ and an offender may be held there because of other charges pending for a different law enforcement agency‚ the offenders in this prison never leave to do anything outside of the prison and they are supervised 24 hrs a day by a correctional officer (“State Prisons‚” 2013). These prisons are usually set up with single cells but have been doubled‚ they are divided
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began movements in prison in order to fight for the acknowledgment and deconstruction of the slave labor they produce. Those incarcerated in the United States do labor at no cost‚ or receive little compensation in conditions less than inhuman simply due to the fact that they are or will be convicted of crimes. Therefore‚ as Kinetik Justice said in Solidarity From Solitary: The National Prison Strike‚ “These strikes are our method for challenging mass incarceration. The prison system is a continuation
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Women’s Need for Gender Specific Rights in Prison Since the foundation of modern prison systems in North America‚ prisons have always been specifically tailored to run and deal only with male needs. Due to that women were just thrown in with them creating co-ed jails‚ and not being properly taken care of. This only slowly started to change in 1873 with the opening of the first women’s only prison in Indiana‚ USA.(IDOC) Since it was adapted from the men’s prison no specific gender laws were enforced and
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The behavior of the “prison staff” (informing the prisoners of their “serious offenses” and showering them to remove their germs and lice) could certainly without a doubt cause the detainees to feel embarrassed and confused. Not only would this be degrading for them‚ it would also serve as a catalyst for psychological change. It would be at this time that the new inmates begin to really feel as though they have done something to deserve this kind of treatment. The prison attire the inmates had
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Running Head: PRISON TERM POLICY RECOMMENDATION PROPOSAL 1 Steven Schultz CJA/ 314 October 21‚ 2014 Anita Gopaul- Alexander PRISON TERM POLICY RECOMMENDATION PROPOSAL 2 Prison Term Policy Recommendation Proposal I am a criminologist advisor to a member of the state legislature. There will be a bill‚ that will be voted on and if passed it will double the maximum prison term for anyone convicted of armed robbery. My boss and other members of the legislature knows that
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of America’s prisons is owned by large‚ cheating‚ scheming companies who aren’t trying to achieve justice‚ they’re trying to obtain wealth. The two most eminent companies in the lucrative business‚ GEO group and CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America) are currently making several hundred million dollars a year. How do they make that money? Private prisons make the government pay them to hold the government’s prisons‚ but they also charge them for not keeping the prison full‚ by influencing
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