has jaded people in today ’s society‚ and it seems that people no longer care or even attempt to think about others problems and how to fix them. Many people in this country either do not care or are happy to be ignorant of the issues affecting our world today. If someone cannot come up with a quick fix immediately then they simply ignore the problem until it becomes intolerable. This is true when it comes to thinking about those that we put behind bars. The prison system is only brought to the forefront
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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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African Americans in Prison Is the criminal Justice system replacing slavery as a Means of Oppression? Table of Contents Intro¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K..1 Part 1 : SLAVERY I. The History of Oppression and African Americans¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K.. III. The lasting effects of slavery: continuous oppression¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K a. The lost sense of culture and cultural pride: Feeling of inferiority b. No economic foundation
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Prison overcrowding has become a major problem in the United States. As per‚ Issues and Controversies‚ “The United States has only 5 percent of the world’s population‚ but holds 25 percent of the world’s prisoners”. (“Mandatory Minimum”) Housing the growing prison population is putting a strain on the federal government’s budget‚ costing roughly $80 billion a year. (“Mandatory Minimum”) Crime rates are down‚ but prison populations are a growing concern. In light of these facts‚ lawmakers need to
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the 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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Drugs within the Prison System Socorro Pardo DeVry University Professor Wells October 12‚ 2012 Drugs in the prison system have been a problem for corrections personnel for many years. The problems with drugs in prison are different in many parts of the country but the question remains to be how the drugs get into the correctional facilities. The breakdown of the use and abuse of illicit drugs within the prison systems is being based on a worldwide issue. The issue with drugs in
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Prisons have such a major affect in our society today. Prisons are suppose to be the location we send our criminals to pay for their actions toward society. Many people have argued the goal of these prisons. To some the goal of prisons is to punish the criminals for the actions they committed. To others the goal of prison is to rehabilitate the offenders and allow them to change to become socially acceptable. Corrections has been a key aspect of civilization since its integration to society. In
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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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Rehabilitation in our Prison System Rehabilitation in our Prison System When Jeannette Brown first got out of prison in April 2000‚ she had nowhere to go. With felony convictions for battery and gun possession‚ and little education or special skills‚ Jeannette couldn’t find a job to support her five kids. Had she found one‚ she still wouldn’t have had a driver’s license or a car to get there. Jeannette met regularly with a parole officer‚ but their relationship was hostile
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in prison is tough so prison inmates form gangs in order to protect their interests. The philosophy of prison gangs is simple. When people unite‚ they are better able to protect themselves. This is the underlying belief which precipitates the formation of prison gangs. Each of the prison gangs that is in existence has a reason for being. They did not just “drop out of the sky.” There are a number of factors which led to the creation of these prison gangs. Prison gangs go a long way in United States
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