The Prison System- A “Market” for Profits Joseph Hallinan’s analysis‚ “Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation‚” helps to discern that the insatiable drive for profit is the prevailing reason for continued growth of the prison industry in the United States. Public values based on this drive have been supported by the avocation of a “free-market” model and capitalism in the prison system: “According to this ideology every individual pursues his or her own personal interests and the result
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How Things Work Today. London: Marshall Publishing Ltd. B.1 The world is currently in the middle of a communications revolution as dramatic as the Industrial Revolution that created our modern society two centuries ago. The growth of telecommunications systems‚ the arrival of the Internet‚ and the proliferation of computers in every aspect of our lives are transforming both industrial and knowledge-based economies round the world. Higher disposable incomes and increased leisure time are also
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The history of state and federal prisons is quite interesting. Long ago‚ prisons did not really exist. Prisoners were housed in jails until trial‚ discharge‚ or execution. Since that time‚ state and federal prisons have been introduced and utilized. State prisons were the first to be invented. Prison facilities house criminals sentenced to one year or longer of incarceration‚ (usually felons). State prisons are run by the government of the individual state they are located in and the federal
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History of State and Federal Prisons Claudia Bailey CJS/230 November 12‚ 2011 Dr. Kay Carter History of State and Federal Prisons Jails date back to very early civilization; prisons came some time later. Some of the earliest jails that are documented are the Walnut Street Jail and the High Street jail. Prisons began being built in 1790; the first prison was at Walnut Street Jail when they added a new cell house to the existing structure dedicated to housing criminal’s long term. The Federal
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Prison systems have been an intricate part of American society for centuries. As early as the act of war‚ imprisonment has been used to incarcerate societal wrong doers until punishment was administered. American prison systems were initially modeled from British penal methods‚ as America is their daughter country. British law allowed for harsh punishments and conditions for prisoners. Punishments‚ such as stockades and/or whippings‚ were perceived as effective deterrents to crime. These penalties
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United States as of 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
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The United States in the nineteenth century evolved from settling on the Atlantic coast in the seventeenth century all the way to the Pacific Coast. Some civilians from the late 1830s and 1840s believed slavery to be the primary cause of western expansion. While this may be true‚ it was not the primary reason. There were many reasons for the expansion that were equally as important and impactful as slavery. The annexation of new states would allow the United States to grow economically and industrially
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The Penitentiary System in The United States Introduction: It seems that prison causes more problems than fixing them nowadays. American Prisons are considered to be very large institutions that are mainly composed of black American and other people of color; blacks‚ Hispanic and a bit of white people. It is weird since 60% of the American Population is white. Each year new rules are implemented to make inmates life harder than before. The majority of them are mainly people of color. These inmates
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America’s prison system is broken. The purpose of prison is to teach a lesson of wrongdoing. Taking away the freedoms of an individual is designed to change the behavior or at least that is the intention. However‚ America makes up 5% of the world population but 25% of the world’s prison population. The recidivism rate for federal prisons according to the United States Sentencing Commission is nearly half at 49.3% within 8 years of release (www.ussc.gov). That rate for state prisons is even higher
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The Prison System: Parole and Re-Entry Stemming from the war on drugs came three strikes laws and mandatory minimum sentencing. Never in the history of the United States have this many people been incarcerated‚ but at the same time never have this many people been released from prisons either. Currently‚ over two million individuals are incarcerated in prisons and jails across the United States‚ and over three fourths of these people will be released at some point (www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/).
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