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    Angola Prison

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    Angola Prison The state penitentiary in Angola Louisiana is the largest and on of the oldest maximum security prison in the United States. A little over 5000 men live within its walls and three quarters of them are black. Eighty five percent of the inmates at Angola will die inside the prison due to being executed or serving a full life sentence. The prison is 18‚000 acres and has its own farm which prisoners work on. Angola’s name is derived from a country in Africa named Angola. The prison

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    Community Prisons

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    municipal authorities‚ and typically hold offenders for short periods ranging from a single day to a year” (BJS‚ 2016). Prisons are the types of facilities where criminals are held for much longer sentences because the crime the suspect committed was much worse than one being in a community corrections facility. The prisons get ran by each states government and also the federal Bureau of Prisons. All of the other correctional facilities whether they are private or not fall into this category such as the U

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    Aging in Prison

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    BE THE EVIDENCE PROJECT  WHITE  PAPER   AGING  PRISONERS   A  Crisis  In  Need  of   Intervention       BE  THE  EVIDENCE  PROJECT   Be  the  Evidence  You  Want  to  See  in  the  World…       What  is  Our  Mission:  The  mission  of  the  Be  the  Evidence  Project  is  to  create  awareness  of  human  rights   and  social

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    Counselling In Prisons

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    Elizabeth Zoccole Are Counseling Program Available in Prisons of Various Security Levels? Introduction and Abstract With respect to the topic of drug and alcohol awareness programs being available in state‚ federal or local prisons‚ the five articles that are stated below contain relevant and statistical information. Per the Bureau of Justice Statistics‚ 3 out 4 State and 4 out 5 Federal prisoners may be categorized as alcohol or drug involved offenders. If such programs are put in place

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    Punishment In Prison

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    Punishment in Prison The criminal justice system sentences people to prison for various felonious crimes they have admitted to or have been found guilty of. A prison sentence is punishment for those types of crimes. However‚ for some‚ a prison sentence in today’s world is nothing more than a vacation from reality. State and Federal Prisons have turned into a recreation hall and free pass from hard labor. Prisons should implement the punishments they were intended for‚ and that being isolation and

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    Confinement In Prisons

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    only 5% of the world’s population‚ holds 25% of the world’s prison population. There are currently 2.23 million juveniles and adults incarcerated in American jails‚ prisons‚ detention centers‚ and the like (Wagner and Rabuy 2015). With record-high rates of incarceration‚ it is not surprising that there is a great deal of controversial debate around the subject‚ including the ways in which incarcerated individuals are treated within prisons. While inmates all face different challenges while being imprisoned

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    Life in Prison

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    Life in Prison – Behind a Convict’s Eyes Crystal Fisher Introduction This paper is about the book "Behind a Convict’s Eyes" by K.C. Cerceral. This book was written by a young man who enters prison on a life sentence and describes the world around him. Life in prison is a subculture of its own‚ this subculture has its own society‚ language and cast system. The book describes incidents that have happen in prison to inmates. With this paper I will attempt to explain the way of life

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    Prison Overcrowding

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    Prison Overcrowding Prison overcrowding is a problem largely attributed to the increase of drug convictions. Decades of tough-on-crime laws coupled with minimal financing for treatment programs have left prisons overcrowded and under funded. With the advent of crack cocaine and the response of a scared nation President Ronald Reagan declared a war on drugs in 1982 (Clear‚ Cole‚ & Reisig‚ 2009). In 1987 congress implemented mandatory minimum sentencing effectively increasing the time

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    Prison Overcrowding

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    Prison overcrowding is a global problem affecting many countries‚ the United States included. In his research‚ Jimmy Nguyen (2012)‚ states that overcrowding in these correctional facilities has denied the prisoners or the inmates their basic human and constitutional rights. In her article‚ Susan Campers (2012)‚ agrees with Jimmy that the state of prison overcrowding in the United States is a demonstration of a failing correctional system. In this essay‚ the paper gives a summary of these two articles

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    Cost Of Prisons

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    Costs of Corrections in the United States Did you know that 23 states prison systems are operating at over 100% capacity? "The increases in drug imprisonment‚ the decrease in releases from prison‚ and the re-incarceration for technical parole violations are leading to significant overcrowding and contribute to the growing costs of prisons. Prisons are stretched beyond capacity‚ creating dangerous and unconstitutional conditions which often result in costly lawsuits. In 2006‚ 40 out of

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