Introduction Life in prison is tough so prison inmates form gangs in order to protect their interests. The philosophy of prison gangs is simple. When people unite‚ they are better able to protect themselves. This is the underlying belief which precipitates the formation of prison gangs. Each of the prison gangs that is in existence has a reason for being. They did not just “drop out of the sky.” There are a number of factors which led to the creation of these prison gangs. Prison gangs go a long way
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The American public is expecting a more efficiently ran correctional system with more programs that will aid in producing a better-prepared ex-offender who is determined to be a more productive member of society. It is apparent that society is losing faith in a system that is spending excessive amounts money imprisoning individuals then releasing them back into the community sometimes worse than when they arrived. There is the belief that reformed correctional facilities will allow offenders to adequately
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America’s prison system is broken. The purpose of prison is to teach a lesson of wrongdoing. Taking away the freedoms of an individual is designed to change the behavior or at least that is the intention. However‚ America makes up 5% of the world population but 25% of the world’s prison population. The recidivism rate for federal prisons according to the United States Sentencing Commission is nearly half at 49.3% within 8 years of release (www.ussc.gov). That rate for state prisons is even higher
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Case Presentation Wilbur Wright College Mental Health 229 Prof. Cordero February 29 2012 Clt is a 41 year old single African American female. She is presently unemployed and receives SSI. She is residing at the LSSI‚ Kenmore Center The Women’s Residence. Before this she was homeless. Clt is mandated by TASC (Treat Alternatives for Safe Communities) for Tx. Clt was mandated for solicitation and possession of crack cocaine. Clt has a Dx. of Bipolar Disorder which is under control at this
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American culture places priority in mind and body. Scores of motivated men and women populate gyms and dietary health clinics across the country seeking a better standard of living‚ a harder challenge‚ or simply recognizing the difficulties that the body faces daily and reaching up to meet them fully. We educate and socialize the mind through years of standardized education and the drive towards higher education. Mothers teach their babies from birth of the music of Haydn and Mozart‚ hoping desperately
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Psychodynamic Theory: According to this theory‚ what is in the unconscious plays a prominent role in mental health. The basis for developing a personality according to Freud are to have the id‚ ego‚ and the superego. The characteristic that the individual has to show for falling into the antisocial personality disorder according to the psychodynamic theory is that the individual has a strong id‚ but a much weakened superego. This can result in having no conscious behavior. According to this theory
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history of state and federal prisons; making a comparison and contrasting about of the different security levels that exist in state prisons and federal prisons. Also it will mention some of the reasons for growth in the state prison system. State and Federal Prison Systems Prison is a term describing the facilities used to incarcerate convicted individuals and penitentiary describes the type of building. The debate to inaugurate penitentiaries instead of prisons began in the eighteenth century
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Week 5 Assignment E. Ann Gaines Ali Mid-America Christian University Biblical Concepts of Mental Health PSYC 4103 Professor J . Dozier October 23‚ 2012 Week 5 Assignment 1. Give one circumstance in which forgiveness would be a reasonable short term goal. Then give one circumstance where forgiveness would be a long term goal? Is there ever a circumstance where forgiveness might not be a goal in the counseling process? A circumstance where forgiveness would be a reasonable short term
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becomes intolerable. This is true when it comes to thinking about those that we put behind bars. The prison system is only brought to the forefront when they become overpopulated and it ’s time to create new prisons. Every couple of years this issue comes up and always the same solution is proposed. Building more prisons will only exacerbate the problem in the end‚ due to the ineffectiveness of prisons. While this is a way out of the problem‚ it does not get to the heart of the problem. As a society
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Mental Health Assessment Paper A.R. presents as an amicable‚ overweight 45-year-old woman diagnosed with undifferentiated-type schizophrenia. She was dressed eccentrically in winter clothing‚ including a coat and toboggan‚ even though we were indoors for the interview. She sat quietly on the couch‚ somewhat slumped‚ picking at the loose threads on her shirt. When she was first admitted‚ she had a strong belief that her husband was out to get her. She would wake up in the middle of the
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