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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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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The United States Penitentiary (USP)‚ Leavenworth‚ was the largest maximum security federal prison in the United States from 1903 until 2005. It became a medium security prison in 2005. It is located in Leavenworth‚ Kansas. It is an all-male‚ medium-security facility committed to carrying out the judgments of the Federal Courts. Leavenworth is one of three first generation United States Penitentiaries built in the early 1900s. The other two were Atlanta and McNeil Island(although McNeil dates
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Drugs within the Prison System Socorro Pardo DeVry University Professor Wells October 12‚ 2012 Drugs in the prison system have been a problem for corrections personnel for many years. The problems with drugs in prison are different in many parts of the country but the question remains to be how the drugs get into the correctional facilities. The breakdown of the use and abuse of illicit drugs within the prison systems is being based on a worldwide issue. The issue with drugs in
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RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN THE PRISON SETTING Dr Andrew Coyle International Centre for Prison Studies King’s College University of London United Kingdom A Paper presented at the conference of the International Prison Chaplains Association (Europe) Driebergen The Netherlands 13 May 2001 RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN THE PRISON SETTING Dr Andrew Coyle International Centre for Prison Studies King’s College University
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Rather than asking “are prisons obsolete” what it seems Angela Davis is asking is “are prisons really necessary?” Davis is quotes that more than “two million people out of a world total of 9 million now inhabit U.S. prisons‚ jails‚ youth facilities and immigrant detention centers. And also brings up the issue of the racism and sexism prevalent in America’s prison systems. She exploits the prejudices of the justice system and highlights the “coincidence” of the extremely high percentage of colored
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problem in America due to the rise in the prison population. The United States houses an estimated 2.5 million people behind bars. When given the task of incarcerating this amount of people‚ the state has only two options. The first option requires state employees being used to staff state run prisons with guards. The second choice is to contract a private corporation to staff and manage a prison and its population‚ otherwise known as Privatization. Prisons that are run by corporations will have a
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As stated in the title of “Why Prisons Don’t Work‚” by Wilbert Rideau‚ prisons are ineffective. Possibly the foremost reason of this is the fact that they are a response after the crime‚ not a preventive measure. Penitentiaries do nothing with respect to preventing crime rather they create a place where criminals are influenced by‚ almost exclusively‚ other criminals. Another reason of this is criminals are being sent to these institutions for periods of time that far exceed what is necessary. Criminals
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Prison Overcrowding Prison overcrowding is become one of the major financial and controversial problem in the United States. The prison population is increasing rapidly‚ and we have only one reason the judicial system is given length sentences to cases that don’t deserve it‚ for example most of the offenders in the United State prison are drug cases‚ these sentences must be considered and most of the drug offenders should be put in rehabilitation centers instead of putting them in prison. According
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Massachusetts‚ a large town located midway between Worcester and Boston. The prison was once known as "Framingham State Prison". MCI Framingham is the official name‚ and is favored.( Beckerman‚ A. (2002) MCI-Framingham is a medium security correctional facility for female offenders. Several References note it as the oldest female correctional institution‚ which is still in operation‚ in the United States. It opened in 1877. The prison houses both state and county offenders‚ as well as those awaiting sentencing
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