A World Apart
Prison systems in the world comparing The United State prison systems to Australia.
The United States has two different types of institutions private and government. The private institutions are paid from the state governments and commonly a lower cost to the state. Private institutions can choose who comes in as far as inmates or employee. The state ran institutions are a little more expensive, they have to except inmates no matter what and are able to hire the most qualified candidates for the job. The purpose of private institutions is to have the lower cost for the states. By granting the private security companies a license to run a state owned facility, the cost can be controlled well, than if the state was to control the supervisor. Intermediate sanctions can not only benefit both the prisons and the inmates themselves. It benefits the prisons by lowering the inmates within the jails and prisons. This allows the prisons to have more controlled environment and the accurate amount of correction officers to the inmates. They provide counseling for a number of different psychological problems and also programs for drug abuse, these programs can be very beneficial to the inmates.
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According to the Department of Corrective Services, the offenders are encouraged to partake in a wide range of vocational and educational programs that are available within the state darning there are incapacitated. These kinds of programs are run by the Education and Vocational Training Unit and are aimed at securing the employment of offenders upon their release. Under s21(1) of the Parole Act states an inmate released from prison prior to expiration of his sentence as a result of remission the term of which exceeds sixty days, shall be subject to mandatory supervision. The mandatory supervision can be revoked or suspended in the same way as