Jails and Prisons October 22‚ 2012 Abstract The following information will compare a state prison against a parish jail in the state of Louisiana to note the major differences. Two aspects of the jail and prison culture and subculture are a topic of discussion. An assessment of violent behavior that takes place in the jail and prison along with a strategy in use to control the problem is of discussion. Also I will include discussion of a community-based corrections program in Slidell‚ Louisiana
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This paper will go into great details about how mothers who are in the U.S. Justice Department’s Bureau of Prison are torn away from their family and after serving their time placed back into the community. When talking about women in prison most research forget the effect on the children and their families. The first half of the paper will discuss women behind bars and how leaving their families and children can affect them and the second half of the paper will discuss the Dubois theory of double
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Would you believe me if I told you that prisons were originally built to reform prisoners? With they way the criminal justice system works and how high the rates of mass incarceration are‚ in today’s day and age‚ I‚ myself‚ would not believe that prisons were built with a positive outcome in mind. If someone would have told me that in the eighteen hundreds prison were used as a place to reform individuals‚ I would have given them a nasty looking face full of disbelief. But now that I have this information
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Do Prison Inmates Suffer from Mental Illness in Significant Numbers? Approximately 24% of males and 42.1% of the female population were incarnated in the mid 2000’s (Steadman et al.‚ 2009‚ 761). How many of these inmates suffer from mental illness? According to Blitz‚ Wolff‚ and Shi (2008)‚ approximately half of these inmates are known to suffer from a mental disorder (386). The assertion to be examined in this paper is that today’s prison inmates do not suffer from mental illness in significant
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There are many obstacles that an inmate who is about to be released from prison after 25years would have to cross (Schmalleger‚ & Smykla‚ 2015). An inmate who is leaving prison would have to start their life over from the beginning. When the inmate is released from prison they would have to find housing if there are no friends or family to help them‚ they would have to find a job‚ and they would have to learn how to manage their money. In the new age of technology‚ they would be lost with never have
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share with you the conditions the prisons were in‚ what courts there were‚ and even about the very first policemen they had. Prisons in the Victorian Era were not a pleasant pace to be. The conditions in the prisons were unnecessary‚ sometimes the prisoners wanted to hang themselves‚ and if they did a bad crime that is most likely to happen.Crime during the Victorian Era was harsh. It was punished with small gross prisons‚ work‚ and sometimes even death. The prisons in Victorian Era were crowded
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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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Throughout the centuries‚ both the system and the concept of prison have undergone many radical changes that eventually led to the formation of the prison as we know it now. In the 16th and 17th centuries‚ prison tended to be a place where criminals were kept in it while awaiting their punishment. It was a place‚ where criminals were held‚ rather than a means of punishment. In fact‚ criminals‚ at that time‚ were publically punished‚ rather than imprisoned‚ in the most torturous ways such as whipping
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Foster (2006) defines prisoner rehabilitation as something that inspires a positive change during confinement. Dependent on prison and era‚ prison rehabilitation has included drug rehabilitation‚ counseling‚ behavior modification‚ religious or social meetings‚ educational‚ vocational or adaptive strategy training (Foster‚ 2006). Notably‚ as well‚ federal prison adopted the medical model during the late 1950s through the early 1970s. Prisoner rehabilitation is a form of treatment. Treatment
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to meet this desired outcome. In 1972‚ federal and state prisons held 196‚000 inmates for a prison incarceration rate of 93 per 100‚000. In addition‚ about 130‚000 inmates were held in jails‚ resulting in about
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