Corrections Trend Evaluation Bebe Washington CJA/394 February 15‚ 2012 UOP Corrections Trend Evaluation In this paper the objectives that will be addressed are past‚ present and future trends of corrections. Also‚ analyze current and future issues facing prisons and prison administrators as well as the roles and issues of alternate correction systems as a developing trend. In today’s society the jails and prison pretty much function with the same protocol. In the past the history of the
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Steven Adams. I currently work for the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections as A Youth Corrections Officer. The work is very interesting because of the type of youth that you come in contact with and they are at a very challenging point in their lives. I spend most of my time supervising the kids but have also become certified as a group facilitator in the Seven Challenges Program which is the substance abuse program that we run on the facility. I have coached Youth in the Past as a Wrestling
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Current trends in sentencing When it comes to prison sentencing there are a lot of trends to go from‚ probably the main outline you could say is the sentencing models these models are a basic outline of what’s going to happen to an offender while being sentenced. These are the six options which include: capital punishment- for like murder offenders which includes the death penalty only in some states though‚ imprisonment -for those who commit violent crime and so forth usually sent to state or
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Corrections Trend Evaluation Daysha Hopkins CJA-394 May 7‚ 2012 Hector Garcia Ed. D Abstract Throughout the United States‚ there are many correctional facilities that house thousands of inmates. Individuals who work within these facilities have a tough job in maintaining the prison facility and the inmates. Correctional officers are called the front line workers and are responsible for looking after the inmates. The officers who work for the correctional facility deal with issues that may
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I will be writing about why I want to be a Corrections Officer‚ what it means to be a Correction Officer‚ and the skills you need to do the job. I have chosen this as my degree of study because I enjoy being around people and keeping things in order. Everyone deserves a chance to make changes in their own life. A Corrections Officer job is to oversee people who have been arrested; they are waiting trail or have been convicted and sentenced to jail or prison by the court. They are legally authorized
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Corrections Trend Evaluation Misty Schwandt Contemporary Issues and Futures in Criminal Justice CJA 394 Troy Hokanson January 15‚ 2013 Corrections Trend Evaluation This paper explains the many trends in the public and institutional criminal justice system. These trends‚ starting from the past‚ push the research into the present and future with the implementation
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statement by examining the negative and positive aspects of imprisonment. The sanction of imprisonment is a last resort to be applied by the courts. Being sent to prison as an offender means that you are not currently fit to live in society in your current state. Consequences due to the sanction of imprisonment are vast and far reaching‚ with both positive and negative results with even more positive and negative bi products. Prisons are becoming overpopulated due to the increased of serious offences
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Week 2 Checkpoint: Development of Corrections CJS 230 In the 1800’s‚ there were very few women that were processed through the criminal justice system. The small amounts of women in prison were mostly prostitutes and habitual thieves in which case no one really cared about their situation or their well being. The female inmates were mixed in along with the male inmates and were not treated any differently then as the male inmates were treated. In today’s female prison system‚ many things
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Community corrections Tammylynn Shindurling CJS/230 May 26‚ 2013 Stephen Gillespie In this paper I will be discussing community correction and how it affects society‚ and my hypothesis about community corrections‚ and the effectiveness in the corrections system. Moreover talk about how other nation see and practice imprisonment
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It places extreme pressure on correctional facilities. Between 1951 and 1981‚ judges were sending more and more people to prison‚ climaxing in major overcrowding problems in the late 1970s. Between staffing to even the ratio for faculty to inmate; it has become a very expensive controversy. With overcrowding in prisons‚ a lot of other issues come with it. You must think of healthcare for inmates‚ and safety hazards inside of the prison. But the real question here is can jail/prison overcrowding be
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