than half of the people in prison right now‚ will reoffend. It may be because of drugs‚ or something more serious that could threaten the life of others. So how does one stop this recurrence from happening? The answer is quite simple‚ the prisons need to attempt to rehabilitate their prisoners. There needs to be programs in every prison that will help the prisoners to have a better life once they get out. No one wants to risk the lives of others by trapping a person in prison and never allowing them
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most brutal crimes committed in and out of prison have come as a result of prison gangs. Prison gangs have dangerous reputations and the deadlier a gang is known to be‚ the more evil it’s members are expected to be. Prison gangs compete for the most dangerous of reputation. Members of prison gangs such as the Texas Syndicate and Mexican Mafia are expected to commit terrible crimes in the name of the organizations cut-throat reputations Offenders join prison gangs for the convenience of power and the
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Prison systems have used an immense amount of capital to fund recreation for inmates. America uses more than $74 billion annually for recreation and the upholding of prisons (Godard‚ 2005). There is a push for the economics of prison recreation to be further analyzed to evaluate the pros and cons of enhanced funding. In America‚ more inmates being admitted to prison brings forth larger revenue for contracted businesses such as construct facilities‚ security‚ transportation‚ and other livelihood
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State expenditures (including the District of Columbia) for adult prisons were estimated to be $22 billion for 1996‚ the most recent data available from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Overall‚ between 1990 and 1996‚ state prison expenditures increased 83 percent from $12 billion to $22 billion. Of these‚ capital expenditures (on construction‚ land and equipment) were 6 percent of total expenditures‚ i.e.‚ a total of $1.3 billion. Construction costs at $0.8 billion represented 4 percent
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WOMEN IN PRISON I decided to write my essay on the topic of women in prison. I chose to not only write about the way of life of these women after being convicted‚ but also the very real and serious issue about pregnant convicts. “according to the Women’s Prison Association 5‚000-10‚000 women enter prison already pregnant each year”(Lynch‚ 2007‚ para 4) Correctional facilities are an important venue for providing pregnancy-related care‚ including access to abortion services
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Lesson Never Learned It is often said “prisons work” but does it actually teach the inmates a lesson? Or does it just give criminals a holding place until their sentence is up? These questions come up often because of the security issues inside the prisons‚ the percentage rates of the inmates that end up back in prison‚ and taxes that affect the citizens of the community surrounded. In prison movies‚ the actors in the movies usually are thugs in prison for murder or drugs. But in reality there
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Jails and Prisons Jails and Prisons The United States has an every growing criminal population. The two main ways to house criminals is jails‚ and state prisons. The San Diego Central Jail is the primary jail for San Diego county and houses more than 900 inmates on a daily bases. The Donovan Correctional Facility houses more than 3‚666 inmates at one time because of an increase in its original population limit; however‚ that also shows the need for more prisons and housing facilities. The
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Prison Privatization Prison Privatization This paper deals with issues of privatization of prison and the pros and cons of the subject matter. First‚ what is prison privatization? Prison privatization means the transfer of prison functions from the government sector to the private sector. This can take various forms in the case of prisons. One of the reason why there was a need to allow privatization is the problems of prison overcrowding and high costs may be the "privatization" of prisons.
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It is through this particular study on the private prison system by Burkhardt and Jones that sociologists and even criminologists realize the historical importance of the private prison systems. Established within the early 1980s‚ the introduction of the private prison systems became as a technique to reducing the amount of litigation and judicial oversight demonstrated to the inmates within the federal prison systems. The private firms (prisons) were established in order to provide superior conditions
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Prison systems have been an intricate part of American society for centuries. As early as the act of war‚ imprisonment has been used to incarcerate societal wrong doers until punishment was administered. American prison systems were initially modeled from British penal methods‚ as America is their daughter country. British law allowed for harsh punishments and conditions for prisoners. Punishments‚ such as stockades and/or whippings‚ were perceived as effective deterrents to crime. These penalties
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