Privately owned prisons began to emerge in the mid-1980s. These prisons emerged because of the ideological imperatives of the free market‚ the huge increase in the number of prisoners‚ and the substantial increase in imprisonment costs. (1) Proponents of privatized prisons put forward a simple case: The private sector can do it cheaper and more efficiently. Corporations such as Correction Corporation of America and Wackenhut promised design and management innovations without reducing costs or sacrificing
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The case for prison abolition is no longer an abstract utopian academic ideal. The prison abolition movement is real and picking up more and more support. I could begin to address the immorality of practices like solitary confinement‚ companies using prison labor with inadequate compensation to the workers‚ or the existence of privately owned prisons. I won’t even begin to argue the morality of those practices; instead‚ I will argue the morality of our prison industrial complex. I will first lay
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inmate culture becomes a part of prison life. a. Culture is indigenous to prisons; it was believed that it was developed as inmates’ loss connection to their previous environment and freedom. b. Culture is imported‚ in other words inmates brought in some types of characteristics into the prison that would then help create a subculture. 2. List the methods correctional agencies use to control prison gangs. a. Transferring gang members to maximum-security prisons. b. Limiting inmates’ access to money
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Jails and Prisons October 22‚ 2012 Abstract The following information will compare a state prison against a parish jail in the state of Louisiana to note the major differences. Two aspects of the jail and prison culture and subculture are a topic of discussion. An assessment of violent behavior that takes place in the jail and prison along with a strategy in use to control the problem is of discussion. Also I will include discussion of a community-based corrections program in Slidell‚ Louisiana
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challenges facing the prison service over the next 5 years‚ are preventing the introduction of drugs into prisons and managing prisoners with drug problems. Drug finds in prison doubled over the last 5 years‚ i.e. approximately 6 drugs finds per day in Scottish Prisons. 69% of the prison population report drug use compared to 8% in the community. Research has identified defined routes into prison. The main routes being visits‚ mail‚ prisoners on admission‚ over the wall‚ prison staff and concealed
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This paper will go into great details about how mothers who are in the U.S. Justice Department’s Bureau of Prison are torn away from their family and after serving their time placed back into the community. When talking about women in prison most research forget the effect on the children and their families. The first half of the paper will discuss women behind bars and how leaving their families and children can affect them and the second half of the paper will discuss the Dubois theory of double
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Would you believe me if I told you that prisons were originally built to reform prisoners? With they way the criminal justice system works and how high the rates of mass incarceration are‚ in today’s day and age‚ I‚ myself‚ would not believe that prisons were built with a positive outcome in mind. If someone would have told me that in the eighteen hundreds prison were used as a place to reform individuals‚ I would have given them a nasty looking face full of disbelief. But now that I have this information
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Special Needs In today’s society‚ jails are starting to incarcerate more and more special needs prisoners. For example‚ the mentally ill‚ and substance abusing prisoners. This number is growing faster and faster and will leave behind the prison system if something is not done to make sure that these prisoners are treated the right way. Several people argue the fact that they are there because they committed a crime. They also argue the point of why should they get special treatment
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In prison to control the criminal some states came up with idea that force feeding is legal and that when a prisoner is on a hunger strike prison should force feeding so they would not die. Article made my Stephanie Jane Carter says that " By force-feeding the prisoners‚ it effectively ends the protest‚ to which they have a right" and that "Some theorists that use of a restraining chair during force feeding demonstrates that the prison is still strong enough" (Carter). By this Jane says that in some
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Do Prison Inmates Suffer from Mental Illness in Significant Numbers? Approximately 24% of males and 42.1% of the female population were incarnated in the mid 2000’s (Steadman et al.‚ 2009‚ 761). How many of these inmates suffer from mental illness? According to Blitz‚ Wolff‚ and Shi (2008)‚ approximately half of these inmates are known to suffer from a mental disorder (386). The assertion to be examined in this paper is that today’s prison inmates do not suffer from mental illness in significant
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