CORRECTIONAL REFORMS. INTRODUCTION. A prison or jail is a facility in which people are physically confined and deprived of a range of personal freedoms‚ generally as a form of punishment that has been forcibly imposed upon them by the state. Prisons may also be used as a tool of political repression to detain political prisoners‚ particularly by authoritarian regimes. In times of war or conflict‚ prisoners of war may also be detained in military prisons‚ and large groups of civilians might be imprisoned
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American Justice System Punishment vs. Rehabilitation Melinda Colon Kaplan University CJ101-12AU William Patterson January 17‚ 2010 Justice 2 The United States correctional system uses both punishment and rehabilitation when dealing with offenders. There are many ways that the justice system handles these punishments such as incarceration‚ probation
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The residential school era in Canada started after in 1879‚ Prime Minister John A. Macdonald commissioned Nicholas Flood Davin to report on Indian industrial training schools established in the U.S. His report recommended the establishment of Indian Residential schools similar to those based on the “Carlisle model”. Davin was convinced that day schools were not sufficient enough in assimilating Indian people to Canadian society‚ and therefore he strongly advocated the establishment of off-reserve
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CORRECTIONAL TREATMENT Samuel Crosby II Liberty University Abstract There are many different theories on how to keep recidivism rates from increasing‚ thus preventing crime. Studies do not show that incarceration can accomplish this task alone; however‚ there is empirical evidence that supports the idea of implementing effective correctional treatment to reduce the recidivism rates. There are conflicting opinions that show a discrepancy
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Week 5 To what extent should correctional institutions be responsible for handling mentally ill individuals? The extent that correctional institutions should be responsible for handling mentally ill individuals should be none. There are not fully equipped to handle the vast number of mentally ill individuals with their multiply types of conditions. Correctional institutes are already overcrowded with inmates and understaffed. The staff doesn’t have the necessary training to deal or identify people
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The correctional subculture has various ethical questions pertaining to a correction officer and his duties. According to Thomson and Wadsworth (2005)‚ when an officer makes the decision to reprimand or write a disciplinary report‚ he is playing a role in the Criminal Justice System (p. 316). A disciplinary committee also has a dilemma because he‚ or she must decide on what punishment should accrue towards the offender. This may be a temporary loss of privileges‚ or he may have his sentence increased
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States and health care in Canada has been a continuing debate. America does not have a universal health coverage plan for it’s population‚ while Canadians are privileged to have universal health coverage. Normally a patient will pay twice as much for health coverage in the United States compared to treatment in Canada. This puts the US in first position of having the most expensive health care system on earth. (http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/health-care-for-all/has-canada-got-the-cure) Most of the
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that they can. So curiosity led me to find out more about the Canadian education system compared to the US education system. The US and Canada have a lot of difference but they have a lot of similarities as well. Education is free as long as it ’s in the public school and you start out in elementary school. For the past twelve years it has been this way along with high-school. Depending on the territory in Canada‚ it hasn ’t quite been as long. For example‚ in Quebec it has been eleven years instead
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Andrea J. Paige January 30th‚ 2013 1. What is the biggest problem facing correctional facility today? The biggest problem that correctional facilities are facing is prison overcrowding. This is because most court officials have the thought that locking people up and throwing the key away is the best solutions to the problem of crime‚ when in fact it’s really not better for society because crime still rises in fact it is better for political court officials. They know this
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Individualism vs Collectivism In essence this dimension deals with the relationship between the individual and the collectives in a given society. It is reflected in the way in which people live together. For example‚ nuclear families‚ extended families‚ tribes and other larger communities. It directly effects peoples values and behaviours. In some cultures individualism is sometime to be sought after but in others it is seen as alienation. Canada Canada has a score of 80 in this dimension
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