Gangs and Community Corrections Cami Close University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire Introduction The most effective ways of addressing gang-related problems include the involvement of several agencies. However‚ there are inherent barriers that need to be overcome in order for the collaborative approaches to have a positive effect. These barriers are defining gang problems and discerning the difference between ends and means. The diversity of gangs and their activities makes it difficult for society
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Nigeria Correctional Systems 1 Nigeria Correctional System Chiquita Yusuff Axia College CJS/230 Nigeria Correction System 2 “Protect the society; reform the prisoner. If you cannot do the time‚ do not do the crime”. This is the motto used by the country of Nigeria‚ in regards to its correctional system. The slogan is an understatement when it comes to the actual
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Though Law Enforcement is challenged with maintaining peace and order in our society‚ an equally as important part of the legal system ensures public safety rarely leaving the walls of their facility. This aspect of the legal system is the correctional departments from the city and state facilities to the federal correctional institutions‚ all tasked with the same goal of maintaining offenders away from the general population‚ hence ensuring public safety‚ while simultaneously attempting to rehabilitate
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Community Corrections has faced many issues‚ as the whole Criminal Justice system faces as well. Between every budget crisis within the systems‚ important resources may be scarce or even cut. One of the main issues that I will be focusing on are the budgetary conflicts of interest and the allocation of finances within the Community Corrections system. Budget crisis are expected in systems of great magnitude‚ but the ineffectiveness of cost implementation of programs‚ use of expenditures and spending
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Criminal Justice Unit 9 Final Project January 01‚ 2013 The US Correctional System When it comes to the phrase “being behind bars‚” most people get the visualization and thought of prison‚ our correctional facilities. When thinking of these prisons there is one big thought about it and that is time. Offenders that get sentenced to prison usually have a very long sentence over there head. The real questions for these correctional systems is how are offenders punished as well as how are they rehabilitated
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CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES Name: Institution: Correctional Facilities Introduction The correctional system is an overall term referring to an array of directives directly administered or executed by jurisdictional justice organizations that entail the management‚ castigation‚ rehabilitation and supervision of sentenced criminals. These mandates are frequently done through incarceration‚ probation and parole‚ whereas prison offers the most widespread correctional agency worldwide (Clear & Cole‚ 2013)
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putting offenders on probation who are supervised‚ also with a suspended sentence can assist in the decrease of crime (University of Phoenix‚ 2011). This paper will discuss the origins of rehabilitation in prison and its definition‚ the definition of parole and how it differs from mandatory release‚ the definition of probation and how it compares to other forms of sentencing‚ the definition and options of community corrections‚ and the critique of the current rehabilitation options. Also this paper will
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Community Corrections Paper CJS/230 May 10‚ 2013 Instructor Rick Jackson When people think of community corrections they may imagine offenders coexisting with the community. To some this is cause for immediate alarm‚ but community corrections is happening
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The foundation of correctional law and the start of the correctional system goes back to the seventeenth and eighteenth century in England. In the seventeenth and eighteenth century it began as hospice facilities which were institutions that promoted the idea of isolating offenders from each other. There were also had houses of correction which emphasized the importance of hard work at disagreeable tasks. The 1779 Penitentiary Act found that prisoners should be housed in secure and sanitary facilities
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The correctional system is set to punish those who have wronged society. NCCI Gardner is a prison in which these people stay to carry out their punishments. NCCI stands for North Central Correctional Institution and it is located in Gardner‚ MA (North Central Correctional Institution – Gardner). NCCI Gardner is a medium/ minimum security level prison (North Central Correctional Institution – Gardner). According to The Official Website of the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security‚ the superintendent
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