As a warden‚ I already know that discovering a program or strategy that will address sexual violence in my prison is not an easy task. Today’s prisons and predators are not as bad as the horror stories that might have been told to us when we were younger. Today’s predators‚ can be compared to pedophile in that they groom their victims (i.e. new prisoners) in a series of predictable stages to get what they want or desire. For some new inmates‚ this can go undetected for quite some time which can be
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Most people do not know what it is like to be incarcerated. Perhaps‚ there are those few that go out of their way to do some research and get an idea of what it is like to be incarcerated‚ but it is still not the same. Other ways people get an idea of what prison or getting incarcerated is like is from tv‚ or movies. Someone does a crime‚ the cops come‚ they get handcuffed‚ placed inside the cop car and then you see them behind bars and the scene ends. If they decide to go more into detail‚ they
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In my opinion‚ the courts have gone a too far with defending the rights of prisoners. People who go to prison are there for a reason; they broke the law and now it is time for them to serve their time. Although prisoners do have rights and are still subject to the Constitution‚ being in prison those rights are pretty much null and void. Under The Fourth Amendment‚ it states that a person has the right to feel safe in their persons‚ houses‚ papers and effects. Being in a correctional facility
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Describe the everyday experiences had by both prisoners and guards in POW camps. Compare the experiences of Australian POWs in German and Japanese camps. During World War II‚ it was a common action for the German and Japanese soldiers to capture Allied soldiers. This meant that the Australian‚ British‚ American‚ Irish and Russian troops were held in prisoner of war camps in less than ideal conditions. Due to the Geneva convention and a different set of morals and beliefs‚ the Germans have been noted
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Is it hard to find a place to have a good vacation? Well‚ you should visit the Kilmainham Gaol! Mrs. Sparr‚ is going on a vacation and wants to go to Ireland but‚ she does not know where in Ireland to visit. I demand her to go to the one‚ the only Kilmainham Gaol (it’s a jail)! In my opinion‚ I think that Kilmainham Gaol is definitely a great place to go on vacation. In the first place‚ it’s just the name of it. Kilmainham Gaol! It’s a very unique place in the Irish history. It contains many cells
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“So I would read the whole Bible. I would break it down into sections. You’re in a grave and you’re endeavoring to live. That’s how to best describe it: endeavoring to live in a grave. You’re endeavoring to live cause you’re not dead yet‚ but nobody aurally perceives you when you call out‚ ’Hey‚ I’m alive!” (Megan Sweeney the Story Within Us). We all ken that prison life is hard for the males in America and abroad‚ but the women have it a lot harder. Women are soft subtle and gentle creatures that
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Is providing college education to state and federal prisoners a basic human right or another burden on law-abiding tax payers? Some feel that prisoners should not be afforded the opportunity to gain any extras while serving time for unlawful acts they committed. The question then remains‚ is prison for punishment only‚ or is the main goal to rehabilitate the prisoner to be a productive member of society upon their release? Most individuals that enter prison are undereducated. Studies show over
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People may ask where does all of our tax money go? Well I can tell you that more than 80 billion goes to keeping prisoners in jail. The reason why so much money goes to prisons is due to overcrowding. The United States has the most prisoners out of the out of several other countries. Making overcrowding a huge problem. there are multiple Solutions on fixing overcrowding in prison the paragraph below will explain the solutions. The US prison population is outstanding. “ The US alone has
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According to the NAACP‚ between 1980 and 2008‚ the amount of people incarcerated in U.S. prisons have more than quadrupled from 500‚000 to roughly over 2.3 million people. The United States consist of 5% of the world population and have 25% of the world prisoners (NAACP). “Combining the number of people in prison and jail with those under parole or probation supervision‚ 1 in every 31 adults‚ or 3.2 percent of the population is under some form of correctional control” (NAACP). Statistics from 2007
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From the later decades of the 18th century until around the middle of the 19th century historians generally agree that the so-called modern penitentiary system broke through internationally. A feature of this system was a belief in the ability to rehabilitate individuals through the use of isolation. The Auburn and Pennsylvania prison models in the United States dating back to the 1820s were model institutions that were copied all over the western world by other countries. The Auburn system (also
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