Prison Systems and The Law Jody BUS 311 Business Law 1 Final Assignment Week 5 Instructor Samantha Hodapp January 8‚ 2013 Prison Systems and the Law Prison’s have been around for two centuries; beginning in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania. The prisons system’s back then were much different then they are today. In the 1700’s it was common custom for the jailer or sheriff to provide a bar‚ charging inflated prices to the prisoners for spirits
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the inmates are faced with constant pushes and pulls throughout their stay in prison. A lot of prisoners come into jail with substance abuse problem (Jurgens‚ Nowak‚ & Day‚ 2011)‚ similarly some do not‚ and only once inside prison do they engage in behaviour that could create a risk to contract HIV (Chu‚ Peddle‚ & Canadian HIV-AIDS Legal Network‚ 2010‚ p. 11). If individuals are already coming into prison with a drug problem they will still find ways in which they can get drugs (Chu et al.‚ 2010) and
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instituted in prisons grows as well. As much as 50% of the US prison population is diagnosed with some sort of mental illness (Long). Though they might be difficult to handle‚ the courts must maintain a balance of keeping the mentally ill properly treated while also ensuring the public’s safety. According to the Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics‚ they are more than 1.2 million people with mental illness are incarcerated in jails and/ or prisoners. 1 in 20 individuals incarcerated in prisons/jails suffer
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THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT One of the most interesting studies made in history was led by Philip Zimbardo‚ a psychologist and a former classmate of Stanley Milgram (who was famous for his Milgram experiment). He sought to expand on Milgram’s experiment about impacts of situational variables on human behavior by simulating a prison environment‚ in which volunteering students were randomly assigned as prisoners or prison guards. Many controversies have been elicited from this experiment‚ and it
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Topic: School-to-Prison Pipeline Research Paper What is meant by the school-to-prison pipeline? What are ways to address this problem? The school-to-prison pipeline is a devastating part of reality for all too many students. The pipeline in definition is simply a term representing the tendency for certain students to easily end up in prison during or shortly after schooling. To decrease this tendency‚ it is important that teachers are aware of the issue and that
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Is the Prison service failing to meet its aims? In order to establish the extent to which prisons meet their aims it is vital to understand exactly what the main aims of prisons are. There are four main functions which prisons have and as such it can be said that these functions are in fact their aims. Prisons aim to: protect society; punish offenders‚ act as a deterrent; to rehabilitate. This chapter will consider each of these aims and the extent to which they are being met. Firstly‚ one of the
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Overcrowded Prisons Imagine being trapped in a small room‚ with four other people who are all criminals‚ that’s what comes to mind when people think of overcrowded prisons. It probably reeks of odder and sweet from being in the cell all day. It’s so overcrowded because so many crimes are being committed that there is not enough room for all of the people. It effects of over crowdedness may be tax payers money‚ the behavior of the inmates may change‚ staff problems‚ and just being in the prison is constantly
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Throughout human history‚ prisons have been portrayed as institutions that are set to protect the masses‚ and punish those that need to be punished. However‚ by analyzing the prison system‚ the fact of the matter is that prisons exist to protect dominant groups and vilify and criminalize minority groups. This is an evident and clear fact that can be seen through the numerous statistics that support the fact that visible minorities and racialized individuals are incarcerated at alarming rates‚ compared
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to be a common theme in the realities that ex-convicts face once outside of prison (as cited in Williams-Queen‚ 2014). This is consistent with Wilson and Davis’s study (2006) that found that ex-offenders often experience stigma from friends‚ family‚ and others. This stigma affects the ex-offenders’ future by the way of employment‚ social systems‚ confidence and the overall worth one feels for themselves. Another example of how peer relationships can lead to negative outcomes is when these relationships
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guilt. This report deals with the issue of the mental health patients in prison and who are on remand. By looking it at a different angle‚ it may be that the association between criminality and mental illness flows not from a causal relationship‚ but is only the result of inadequate health systems. Lack of adequate number of hospital beds and lack of community alternatives. Delivering quality healthcare services in prisons is a complex undertaking‚ hampered by not only the high level of need amongst
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