Prisons‚ facilities maintained for confining people convicted of committing crimes‚ were used to rehabilitate offenders while keeping them isolated from the community. The Quakers built the first prison in 1790 in order to seclude criminal offenders from society to think about their wrongdoing and to seek forgiveness in a kind‚ and spiritual environment. (Inciardi 497) Currently‚ there are three types of prisons within the Federal‚ State‚ and County governments. These are categorized by the
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Prison Alternatives to be kept Though some may argue that alternatives to prison sentences reduce crime rate‚ it would be a mistake to because of the unpredictability of criminals. Talks about the alternatives to incarceration that California implement in the 1965. California being a leading state in broad sentencing reforms has accumulated a lot of data on the effects of alternatives of prison sentences. They have shown a significant correlation between crime rates and the consequences to be received
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Prison and the Alternatives: Is Incarceration the Answer to Crime? How well do our prisons reform prisoners? What are the alternatives to prison? What is the best‚ most cost-effective way of protecting the public? These are some of the questions raised by individuals who are legitimately concerned not only with where their tax dollars are going‚ but also with what is being done to break the cycle of crime within their representative communities. When prisons were first introduced to our society
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to prison. However‚ there is also better alternative way for those who are first time offenders. The advantage of sending the entire law breaker into prison is to punish them on their mistake which had done. Besides that‚ it is also teach them a lesson and alert to the public that punishment to be taken once someone had against the law. For example‚ the criminal such as raping a women or a girl where the victim are badly harmed on physically and mentally. Those criminal should sent to prison in
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Locking up criminals behind bars only puts them under isolation and manipulates minor offenders in becoming worst. Therefore it is a crucial concern for nations to reform these criminals and make them of good use later in society.The alternatives to prison system which may reform offenders include community services‚ drug treatment‚ educational and vocational training‚ rehabilitation with psychiatric help. Community services can be given to minor offenders who impose no threat to society. The
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December 5‚ 2001 Alternatives to incarceration Ever since the first prison opened in the United States in 1790‚ incarceration has been the center of the nation’s criminal justice system. Over this 200 year period many creative alternatives to incarceration have been tried‚ and many at a much lower cost than imprisonment. It wasn’t until the late 1980’s when our criminal justice systems across the country began experiencing a problem with overcrowding of facilities. This problem forced lawmakers
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Alternatives to Incarceration….Drug Courts There is no doubt that the United States suffers from an increase in crime and more people than ever being incarcerated. The numbers are currently overwhelming. “A nonpartisan organization called The Pew Center on the States‚ released a study February 2008 that found the U.S. imprisoned both more people and a larger percentage of its adult population than any other country. According to the study‚ by The Pew Center 2.32 million people were currently
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Memo Date: March 27‚ 2013 To: Federal Bureau of Prisons From: Karrington C Norris Subject: Overcrowding of Juvenile Correctional Facilities Introduction Within the juvenile correctional facilities community‚ there are public and private institutions that both experience and suffer from similar problems. The problems that face these facilities are overcrowding. Through close comparison of the major issues with juvenile correctional facilities‚ the institutions are revealed to be ineffective
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Are prison appropriate for non-violent offenders‚ or should they be given alternative punishment? The United States of America has a higher incarceration rate than any other country in the world. The imprisonment rate in USA is even greater than China’s‚ India’s and Russia’s incarceration rates combined. Today‚ we can say (within the margin of error) that out of 100 people in the United States‚ nearly two are in prison. This increase is mainly attributed to three common factors: mandatory sentencing
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no one and it would be beneficial to remove them from the prison system‚ and into the parole system (D’Elia‚ 2010). Prison Cost Prisons are expensive to keep open‚ and most of the money to keep them open comes from the taxpayers. A study in 2012 showed that prisons cost American taxpayers approximately 5.4 billion dollars each year (Henrichson & Delaney‚ 2012). These cost include various expenses that include maintaining the prisons‚ employees salaries‚ educational training‚ providing benefits
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