Memo Date: March 27‚ 2013 To: Federal Bureau of Prisons From: Karrington C Norris Subject: Overcrowding of Juvenile Correctional Facilities Introduction Within the juvenile correctional facilities community‚ there are public and private institutions that both experience and suffer from similar problems. The problems that face these facilities are overcrowding. Through close comparison of the major issues with juvenile correctional facilities‚ the institutions are revealed to be ineffective
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An aggressive prison behavioural subculture that focuses on masculinity and the assertion of dominance determines the experiences and behaviour of men in prison. An examination of the underlying factors that lead to heightened masculinity in an all-male prison reveals an atmosphere of hostility that subsequently influences the experiences of incarcerated males. This essay will discuss the applicability of Marxist theory in understanding and evaluating the experiences of men in prison. It will ultimately
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First of all‚ I saw the one of video that it is explained about The School to prison pipeline. I don’t have good English because I am an international student‚ so I choose this video.The video basically explained about what is The school to prison pipeline and how does that happen and who it affects. The school to prison pipeline is American kids get pushed out of public schools and into the Juvenile and criminal justice systems and students of color and disabilities are disproportionately affected
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1. The general idea of the article is about a mock prison experiment conducted by Doctor Zimbardo. The research was to identify the psychological causes of aggression and violence‚ and to observe the variables that promoted such behaviour in prison. He did this by using two groups of people that were randomly assigned as either a prisoner or a prison guard. The hypothesis that is focused upon to provide an explanation to the conditions in prisons is the dispositional hypothesis. The dispositional
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it‚ how I could stop my mind from racing‚ how I could get fresh air. I needed to somehow endure it; after all I was only there on a class tour. A tour that lasted one hour‚ but felt as if I was incarcerated for five years. I have suffered from mild anxiety since I was a child and had never thought about how it would be to be incarcerated. Walking around the facility I imagined how mentally ill inmates deal with being incarcerated. How do individuals that suffer from mental illnesses such as schizophrenia
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Luis Valdez and Peter Malae on Prison Industrial Complex Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) is a term used to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance‚ policing‚ and imprisonment as solutions to social‚ economic‚ and political problems. Angela Davis is a journalist and American political activist who believes that the U.S practice of super-incarceration is closer to new age slavery than any system of criminal justice. She defines the PIC as biased for criminalizing
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The video contained the results and analysations of a social experiment called the Stanford Prison Experiment. This experiment watched over 24 young‚ healthy‚ college men. They then flipped a coin to see which 12 would act as guards and which 12 would act as prisoners inside of a prison simulation. They acted out this simulation for 6 days before it was cut short due to the amount of cruelty that the men were experiencing. Originally it was to last 2 weeks but after a few had to drop out due to mental
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Abby Quillen article‚ “Raising Babies in Prison”‚ published by the Yes! Magazine in the winter of 2011‚ the more I realized how benefits there could be. I stand mostly negative side of this issue‚ but it’s hard to ignore the statistics. The Residential Parenting Program changes lives‚ “the recidivism rate is 12 percent compared to 40 percent for the general Washington Corrections Center for Women” (Quillen 1). The fact that most mothers stay out of prison creates much more stability for the child
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twenty-twelve‚ compared to Norway‚ whose prison population is seventy-two out of a hundred thousand people (see fig.1 and 2). American prison systems need to be updated similar to the Norwegian prison system‚ via using taxpayer money more towards rehabilitation‚ retraining prison guards‚ or even reevaluating the goal of criminal justice‚ thereby providing healthier ex-convicts that give back to the economy in society. In order to clearly understand and evaluate prisons systems‚ a person must comprehend
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Educate a Convict‚ Close a Prison Door /They’re trying to build another prison/ For you and me to live in/ Another prison system/ for you and me/ Minor drug offenders fill your prisons you don’t even flinch/ All our taxes paying for your wars against the new non-rich/ All research and successful drug policy show that treatment should be increased/ And law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences/ In 2001‚ Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian‚ members of the band System of a Down
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