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    Sexual Coercion In Prison

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    sexuality either violent or innocuous‚ other inmates just simply don’t fight when they become the sexual object of another inmate. Factors that appear to increase sexual coercion are understaffed officers‚ racial conflict‚ inadequate security‚ and many inmates incarcerated for crimes against other people. The main inmates that are at risk are non gang affiliated inmates‚ convicted of sexual crimes and so on. It becomes a huge problem when prison administrators look the other way or dare not even want to look

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    prison health care

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    than four times more than for those aged 20 to 24. In Georgia‚ caring for prisoners ages 65 or older costs about $8‚565 per inmate each year. The average annual health-care cost for Georgian prisoners under 65? $961 per inmate. So‚ what’s a state to do? According to experts interviewed by Pew‚ states are trying to rein in costs by providing remote health care‚ outsourcing it altogether‚ enrolling prisoners in Medicaid and paroling elderly or sick inmates. Mississippi’s three-year-old program to

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    to gain perspectives from prison staff. For the Warden of the prison and counselor(s) I will be using a targeted sample approach. These interviews will be conducted in a semi-unstructured manner. The goal will be focused around their perspectives of cannabis‚ mental health‚ and rehabilitation within the prison. These will be semi-structured interviews there will be specific objectives such as gaining knowledge of how many inmates suffer from mental health disorders. What treatments are used to help

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    about to speak on. As a former correctional officer working with both juveniles and adult offenders‚ I could see very little difference in their thought patterns. Prisons and detention facilities are supposed to act as a deterrent to criminal activity. I mean being unpleasant‚ potential offenders are suppose to be afraid of going to prisons. However‚ I found out that it doesn’t work that way. The criminal mind

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    adult prisons‚ but that is unacceptable. Juvenile criminals should not receive the same punishment as adults because they have a higher chance of getting raped or killed‚ they are still too immature‚ and they are more likely to commit a crime again. If juveniles get sent to adult prisons they have a higher chance of getting raped or being killed. “Juveniles sent to adult prisons are 7.7 times more likely to commit suicide and 5 times more likely to be raped”(Hanson‚ 47). Some adults in prison are

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    Stanford Prison Study

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    Dylan Kerbs Psych&100 Simmelink 10/8/12 Stanford Prison Study The Stanford Prison Study I believe was a very interesting experiment‚ but at the same time was very cruel and harmful to the students that participated in the experiment. I thought that it was very interesting on how they messed with the prisoners heads by shaving their heads‚ putting the chain around their feet‚ and giving them numbers to respond to. Even though it was kind cruel it was kind of cool to see all of the different

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    Medical Debt In Prisons

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    Hospitals‚ prisons and other community service agencies‚ in addition to being landing pads for those with mental illness‚ also contribute to the problem of homelessness through mounting debt and inadequate discharge planning. Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy and contributes to housing instability in 27% of people struggling with medical bills (Pollitz et al. n.p.). Even among individuals with private health insurance‚ those with “out-of-pocket medical expenses that exceed five percent

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    Modern Day Prisons

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    Modern Day Prisons Patricia A. Farley Abstract This paper explores compares and contrasts the Pennsylvania Correctional System and the Auburn Correctional system and explains why the Auburn Correctional system most closely explains our modern day prisons. “In the early decades of the nineteenth century there arose two competing models of prison discipline in the United States; one was the “separate” or “solitary” system employed in Pennsylvania‚ and was kept as much as possible in total

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    adult prisons because of legislation dropping the age juveniles are allowed to be tried as an adult and expanding the list that are considered adult crimes.  States vary as to how old and where a juvenile is incarcerated.  They may have to wait until a certain age to be transferred to an adult facility or they have to go in ight after sentencing.  Sometimes they are in the general population of adults and others they try to keep them in different areas‚ but it all depends on the state and what their

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    The Prison – Bernard Malamud Theme : Twenty nine year old Tommy Castelli‚ who was Tony as a boy is now a man who is defeated in life‚ his main aim in life was to get out of the slum he grew up in. Life does not work that way for him and he ends up trapped in an unfulfilling way of life. A 10 year old girl is caught by him stealing from his shop and then he decides to save her life by showing her the right way so that she does not end up having a futile and banal life like his own. He makes a few

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