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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Prison Reform Rehabilitation Process CJA/334 July 13‚ 2013 Prison Reform Prison Reform is presented through the penal system in an effort to improve prisons‚ provided not only but also punishment rehabilitative efforts as well. Rehabilitation is one of the philosophical reasons for sentencing. The general area that will be studied within prison reform is its rehabilitation process. We will study the rehabilitation process as it pertains to both male and female. This study will also show
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Is sending kids to adult prisons and trying them as adults the best solution for our crime problem or would rehabilitating juveniles be a better option? Most people agree that kids who commit violent crimes need to be punished. However‚ do they really learn anything from being punished as an adult? In today’s society‚ punishment and rehabilitation has always been a big problem within our views in the Juvenile Justice System. Rehabilitation beats punishment! Adolescents who are tried and convicted
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April 15‚ 2013 Prison overcrowding paper Overcrowding in prisons is one of the biggest challenges facing the American criminal justice system today. The total population of prisons and jails in the United States neared the 2.1 million mark in June 2003‚ according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported incarceration rates of state and federal prisoners continued to rise. At midyear 2003‚ the number of sentenced inmates was 480 per 100‚000 U.S. residents
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Prison Overcrowding In America’s tough economic society‚ over population has become an exceedingly hot topic issue. However‚ overcrowding in America’s prison system has been a severe problem since the 1970’s. The majority of the changes have come from different policies on what demographic to imprison and for what reason. The perspective of locking up criminals because they are "evil" is what spawned this (Allen‚ 2008). Because of this perspective the prison system in America is in need of serious
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Punishment is a word that has many different meanings. It differs from person to person‚ state to state and even country to country. When looking at the criminal justice system the purpose of punishment is deterrence‚ rehabilitation‚ retribution‚ and incapacitation (Bontrager‚ Smith‚ & Winokur‚ 2008). Punishment involving adults is hard but when dealing with adolescents it is even more difficult. Adolescence is often thought to be a time of irrational and emotion influenced behavior. There are
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PRISON ENVIRONMENT Prison Environment By: James Thomas University of Phoenix Prison Environment Prison environment is cramped and confined and a dangerous environment. There are many inmate customs‚ etiquette or rules to abide by‚ or a convicted individual may be subjected to physical harm or death. The most obvious characteristic of the prison environment is the absence of privacy. The absence of privacy is a deliberate punishment‚ lavatories
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FIVE FACTORS THAT LEAD EX-PRISONERS BACK TO PRISON #1 Chemical dependency issues—major condition of parole—alcohol and drug free • Regina—25 year methamphetamine addict—went to T.X. twice after release from prison—everyone thought drinking was ok‚ even though it is clearly forbidden in terms of parole • Shep—relapsed and got violated several times #2 Housing/lack of housing/back in the ‘hood—coming out of prison—little/no money‚ felony record eliminates many options‚ including section
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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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Minority Inmates There are over millions of people incarcerated but African Americans and Latinos make up most of the prison population. To attempt to stop certain problems‚ the criminal justice system just put people behind bars and expects that everything will be fine‚ when in reality it isn’t because now the jails are becoming overcrowded. Dealing with the drug war‚ racial profiling‚ and people growing up in low-income neighborhoods and high-poverty rates‚ minorities have a higher inmate ratio but
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