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    24 June 2005 Reducing the Prison Recidivism Rate For Violent Criminals Recidivism can be viewed as a public safety failure rate; new crime by convicted felony inmates and probationers and is measured by rates of re-arrest for a new misdemeanor or felony offense‚ reconviction on new charges‚ and re-incarceration or sentence to another court imposed sanction such as probation‚ a diversionary program‚ or a fine. Each measure has strengths and weaknesses‚ but combined‚ the three are a more comprehensive

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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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    A Positive Perspective on Prison Education Prison Education Many people would agree that continuing an education is key to surviving in society. Therefore‚ education is very vital for every individual to maintain‚ regardless of how or where they obtain it. Even though people believe that education is important‚ many people disagree with education being taught in prison. Prison education is providing inmates with an opportunity to enhance their education. They are offered general

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    because 93% of all inmates will eventually be released from prison. A 2009 study of 37 states‚ revealed that the recidivism rate for males was 37.6% and 29.3% for females (Bohm & Haley‚ 2012). These numbers beg the question of what is the true goal of our prison system. Critics have debated these questions for years. Should the goal be to rehabilitate or simply incarcerate those who have committed crimes against society? Can the prison system actually achieve the goal of rehabilitation? Do released

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    The Prison System: Parole and Re-Entry Stemming from the war on drugs came three strikes laws and mandatory minimum sentencing. Never in the history of the United States have this many people been incarcerated‚ but at the same time never have this many people been released from prisons either. Currently‚ over two million individuals are incarcerated in prisons and jails across the United States‚ and over three fourths of these people will be released at some point (www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/).

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    One might argue that likely due to their past it is possible for them to have been exposed to the lifestyle of the work camps or prison life making them better able to adapt to the conditions because they understood how to work the system‚ a disadvantage that those serving their term as political prisoners had. The urka class were usually tasked with overseeing the other inmates‚

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    Prisoner Many studies and surveys have shown that millions of dollars of our taxpayer’s money is spent on the criminal justice system to house federal prisoners and the different programs a prisoner must go through to be introduced back into society. Even though there is much controversy on the cost of these programs‚ the public is in strong agreement that parolees should be highly supervised and retrained to be a good law abiding citizen. The process the government uses to release a person back

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    most violent prison riots in the history of the American correctional system. 33 prisoners died‚ over 200 inmates were injured and 12 correction officers were taken hostage of those 12‚ seven were badly beaten and raped. The causes of this riot were made perfectly clear by these inmates. The condition of the prison was unbearable and Author R. Morris wrote that "the riot was a predictable incident based on an assessment of prison conditions". Prison overcrowding and inferior prison services‚ common

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    Words 2‚651 California’s Prison System Chaos. Have you ever wondered where and how our tax money being spent? We pay taxes for services that we all benefit from as a community. Things like roads‚ law enforcement‚ libraries‚ transportation systems‚ to live comfortable and safe. However; a very big chunk of that money goes towards prisons and jails. California’s current prison budget is almost $10 billion dollars (Jerrod). Even this sum is not enough to incarcerate all of the offenders. California

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    The State and Federal Prison System Axia College Both state and federal prison systems have a long history in the United States as well as a significant presence in modern times as the prison populations for both state and federal prisons continue to grow. State and federal prisons each have their own types of institutions and security levels and house different types of criminals due to their differing jurisdictions over state versus federal prisoners. This paper

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