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    Supermax Prisons

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    The Federal Bureau of Prisons oversees 114 correctional institutions throughout the United States. Most of them are classified as Minimum to Medium security‚ Levels I-IV. These facilities house everyday criminals‚ and only contain a very small number of high-profile‚ high risk inmates. There are 22 prisons‚ however‚ that are dedicated to keeping the most dangerous humans in the country off the streets. These are Super-Maximum Security prisons‚ or Supermax. They are classified as Levels V-VI‚ and

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    Capital Punishment

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    Capital punishment has been a controversial topic in association to ethics all of its existence. Issues pertaining to the execution methods‚ reasonability in the relationship of punishment to the crime‚ who receives the death penalty‚ and innocence have been discussed and researched in great lengths. Capital punishment is still an active form of “deterrence” in the United States for crimes considered the worst of the worst. In this paper I will discuss the history of the death penalty. I will also

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    Corporal Punishment

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    CORPORAL PUNISHMENT “Whoever spares the rod hates their children‚ but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them” (Proverbs 13:24‚ King James Version). “Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him” (Proverbs 22:15‚ King James Version). “The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame” (Proverbs 29:15‚ King James Version). The scriptures quoted above have been taken from the ‘Bible’;

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    Community Prisons

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    and institutional corrections have been a big part of our criminal justice system and helps us deter crime different ways. Both do the same thing by protecting our society and punishing criminals two different ways. In order to just decide on which one we want to be expanded we have to go more into depth on understanding them first‚ which will be all in this paper. Without neither of these different types of corrections our society would be reckless and very unsafe but with one being expanded we

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    Overcrowded Prisons

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    Prof. Taylor Engl. 101 23 Oct. 2011 Economy Issues? Overcrowded Prisons Prisons throughout the U.S have been overcrowded with inmates who cause a problem for the system itself and the general population. This causes a problem for the reason that it is expensive when prisons are overcrowded and minor crimes like possession of small amounts of marijuana by offenders gets them sent to jail instead of going to rehab. That means the system has to provide alternative jail cells for inmates to stay

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    Life In Prison

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    Punishment by life in prison is based off the assumption that certain convicts has no hope of rehabilitating into productive members of society‚ making them better off excluded from the general public. As a result‚ our government spends million of dollars annually to keep such people behind bars for their lives. Yet‚ despite being perceived as an inhumane form of punishment‚ it does not violate the 18th amendment and is in no way cruel and unusual according to our laws and it seems that our justice

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    Prison Overcrowding

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    system has incarcered their way out for so long‚ that federal and state prisons and county jails are being bombarded with crisis levels of overcrowding (Alcohol Monitoring Systems‚ Inc.‚ 2013). Researchers have also predicted that the situation will continue to get worse because operating budgets are severely being cut‚ and funding to build new facilities are null. Current projections revealed in 2011‚ that the United States prison population has increased a 13 percent‚ which is triple the growth of

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    Incarceration In Prison

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    The use of incarceration as a system of discipline or punishment dates back to medieval times. For hundreds of years‚ critics and punitive experts within our society have studied‚ researched‚ and made changes to the physical punishment methods and restored it with incarceration. The passage of the Anti-Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 1988 gave a crime control perspective that increasing arrests and punishments for drug offenses to have a profound impact on correctional populations and minorities (D.L

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    Supermax Prisons

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    Supermax Prisons and Their Adverse Effects Introduction Due to increasing crime rates and the extensive belief that rehabilitative programs for inmates do not work‚ a new and harsher method for prisons is being utilized. Instead of scattering the worst criminals‚ they are being consolidated into Supermax prisons. Supermax prisons are state of the art penitentiaries meant to hold only the worst of the worst criminals and inmates that cannot be trusted in regular prisons. There are strict regulations

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    Prison System

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    Prison System Janette Brown Garcia Westwood College Abstract A supermax prison is an institution that has the following characteristics: greater levels of restriction‚ limited visitation and programs‚ lack of congregate activity‚ and the increased degree of isolation from other inmates (Mears and Watson‚ 2006). Craig Haney (2003) describes supermax prisons as being marked by their totality of isolation‚ intended duration of confinement‚ reason for being imposed and technological sophistication

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