Mentally Ill in Prison Tisha R. Gilmore Argosy University Abstract There are many mentally disabled individuals incarcerated in U. S. jails today. Their disabilities range from those born with mental retardation‚ to those with traumatic brain injuries from being involved in accidents‚ and include those with chemical imbalances due to natural causes or drug addictions. These people are treated as criminals and not as patients. Jails are not the place for this population. Keeping them incarcerated
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Restorative Justice I have a strong passion for the topic I am 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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Overcrowding in America ’s Prisons: Can Repeat Offenders Be Rehabilitated Thesis Statement and Hypothesis: Prisons in America are overcrowded‚ understaffed and I believe put very little emphasis on rehabilitation. Introduction: The American prison system was set up to rehabilitate prisoners so they can meld back into society as productive citizens. Instead‚ factors as high crime rate and of course‚ mandatory sentences have caused an increased over-crowding of our jails. This has also caused
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discussion throughout this paper will be about the supermax prison‚ outlining issues that these facilities face‚ as well as issues that the staff face that work in these types of prisons. Examine how contraband and riots become issues for the facility‚ and lastly discuss whether this style of incarceration is favorable or non-favorable. In order to discuss or answer questions about a supermax prison‚ it must first be defined. A supermax prison is a highly restrictive‚ high custody housing unit within
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Does prison make the inner demon come out in the prisoner/guard or is the prisoner /guard already wired that way? The Stanford Prison Experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. This experiment was led by a psychology professor named Philip Zimbardo‚ he had the help of a team of researchers. The purpose of this particular experiment was to induce disorientation‚ depersonalization‚ and DE individualization in the participants. After a period of time
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important issues today. The Stanford Prison Experiment‚ conducted over 40 years ago‚ brought these ethical issues into the limelight and remains one of the most controversial studies in the history of studying human behavior. This paper aims to define ethics‚ describe risk/benefit ratio‚ provide a brief background on the Stanford Prison Experiment‚ and evaluate the impact it has had on psychological research. The Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford Prison Experiment probably tops a lot of lists
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ail and prisons Jail and Prisons Comparison Kristofer Kem CJA/234 October 18‚ 2012 Luis Cintron Jail and Prisons Comparison Most people do not realize that there are differences between jails and prisons. Jails hold people awaiting trial or people that are sentenced for a short term‚ which is usually less than a year. That is jails place in corrections. Prisons hold people that are convicted of crimes and sentenced for a longer term. In the United States‚ jails are most often run by sheriffs
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and population. Although these two countries share similarities when it comes to prisons and how they are run. I believe Canada implies a prison industrial complex because of the ideologies‚ legislation and criminal justice goals that allow for the prison industrial complexes to thrive and expand. A prison industrial complex is where private businesses benefit from correctional institutions. In his article “Prison industrial complex”‚ Eric Scholsser defined it as‚ “bureaucratic‚ political and economic
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The behavior of the “prison staff” (informing the prisoners of their “serious offenses” and showering them to remove their germs and lice) could certainly without a doubt cause the detainees to feel embarrassed and confused. Not only would this be degrading for them‚ it would also serve as a catalyst for psychological change. It would be at this time that the new inmates begin to really feel as though they have done something to deserve this kind of treatment. The prison attire the inmates had
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The Prison Industrial Complex in America The main goal of private prisons is to make profit disregarding the necessities of the inmates. Privatization provides bad health services to the inmates‚ lack of opportunities to get an education‚ undertrained staff‚ insecurity‚ and a high recidivism rate. The United States has the largest incarceration rate in the entire world‚ and this is due to the prison-industrial complex (PIC). The more defendants are sent to private prison‚ the more profit they and
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