M7A1 Case Study 3: California Prison System AB 109 and AB 117 were introduced to ease the pressure of the federal and state budget through saving costs on the penitentiary system. In this regard‚ the reduction of the prison population and the transfer of a part of the prison population to county jails was one of the main provisions of AB 109 but AB 117 actually discharges provisions of AB 109. Such a paradoxical situation is the result of scarce financial resources
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As a warden‚ I already know that discovering a program or strategy that will address sexual violence in my prison is not an easy task. Today’s prisons and predators are not as bad as the horror stories that might have been told to us when we were younger. Today’s predators‚ can be compared to pedophile in that they groom their victims (i.e. new prisoners) in a series of predictable stages to get what they want or desire. For some new inmates‚ this can go undetected for quite some time which can be
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Those in prison have a constitutional right to health care and adequate mental health treatment. The growth of the correctional populace has put a strain on the inadequate size of jails and prisons to respond to the health needs of inmates. This situation is only made even more challenging because of the fact that prisoners with these serious mental diseases involve specific services and treatment. “Prevalence estimates of mental illnesses in U.S. jails have varied widely depending on methodology
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(n.d.). To test his theories‚ Zimbardo conducted a study‚ known as the Stanford Prison Study‚ which confirmed his theoretical development of deindividuation. Zimbardo postulates that the individual in a group is less likely to follow normal rules of behavior‚ partly because they become anonymous and the sense of responsibility fades. In addition‚ the individual’s self-awareness is relaxed. Some examples from the prison study that we can see is that the anonymity is accentuated in situations
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The existence of Prisons can be traced back to the ancient period. Initially there was a belief that rigorous isolation and custodial measures would reform the offenders. In due course it is being substituted by the modern concept of social defense. Custody‚ care and treatment are the‚ three main functions of a modern prison organization. For over 100 years‚ there was emphasis on custody which‚ it was believed‚ depended on good order and discipline. The notion of prison discipline was to make
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1865‚ you are wrong. Slavery is ongoing through forced prison labor. USLegal.com describes prison labor as‚ “the forced labor done by convicts in a prison. The prisoners may have to do even hazardous work” (Prison Labor Law).I believe that forced prison labor should be abolished because it recreates conditions for slavery to thrive‚ gives companies a way around labor laws‚ and takes away jobs from working-class Americans. The first reason prison labor should be illegal is because it recreates conditions
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At the end of 2001‚ state prisons were operating between 1 and 16 percent over the capacity‚ while federal prisons were above 31 percent their desired capacity level (Foster‚ 2006). It has been proven that prisons are more difficult to manage when they are above capacity and inmate and staff health and safety suffer when overcrowding occurs. The main reason for population
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some estimates‚ 50% of the prison population suffers from mental illness. Most of the inmates don’t remember the crime that they committed. As a consequence‚ each year thousands of mentally ill offenders are sent to prison where they poorly equipped to treat them. These inmates are placed in solitarily confinement‚ and they serve longer sentences than the other inmates and they cost the city three times as much as other inmates. The most common mental illness in the prison is anxiety‚ anti-social personal
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Political ideology and readings on the xfactor Hello I’m sure you have heard of the X factor? One of britians most watched tv programmes. Perhaps one of your relatives was on it? Who knows. But did you ever wonder what the xfactor is really about? Apart from knowing it’s a ‘luck shot’ show…well im going to be telling you the different theories related to x factor in this essay. You will be surprised. Firstly we all watch x factor for our own desires or uses such as poverty‚ confusion‚ hope‚ exhaustion
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When operating a prison one of the penultimate duties is security both inside and outside of the facility. The prisoners who are sentenced to death are generally housed together in a segregated area of a prison called death row. Being able to design this facility with a specific purpose in mind allow for the ability to create a single facility to both house the condemned and also the death chamber where they will be executed. This has numerous advantages‚ one of which is that the state saves money
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