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    Manila City Jail

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    Manila City Jail (Old Bilibid Prison) - Male Dormitory (Manila) Philippines / National Capital Region / Manila / C. M. Recto Ave.‚ corner Quezon Blvd. The Manila City Jail (MCJ) has been ravaged by time. It is under-staffed‚ overcrowded‚ and its facilities in disrepair. Originally built by the Spaniards in the 19th Century‚ “Bilibid”‚ as it is commonly known‚ was home to prisoners of war during the Japanese occupation of Manila in World War II. Today it houses over 3‚700 inmates - a 4x overcapacity

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    Community Prisons

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    different government entities. Local jails are operated by county or municipal authorities‚ and typically hold offenders for short periods ranging from a single day to a year” (BJS‚ 2016). Prisons are the types of facilities where criminals are held for much longer sentences because the crime the suspect committed was much worse than one being in a community corrections facility. The prisons get ran by each states government and also the federal Bureau of Prisons. All of the other correctional facilities

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    Violence In Prisons

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    1. Dean Spade‚ The Laws Will Never Make us Safe. “Some people who are identifying prisons and boarders as some of the most significant forms of violence that need to be opposed and resisted by queer and Trans politics‚ are calling for an end to all prisons.” The article is addressing issues of violence among individuals who become easy victims of hate crimes with in the criminal justice system. Much like how Queer and trans individuals are working towards trying to dismantle the racial identity

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    History of the Prison

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    the prison in America. How it came to be in its present state? Things I will be writing about in this paper are the early history of the prison history in England. I will be talking about early American prisons‚ the goal of rehabilitation‚ prison labor‚ changes in the prison system‚ rehab programs‚ population‚ housing and prison organization we will hit briefly on all those aspects of the history of prisons. The reasoning behind this paper is because many people do not know why prison are

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    Jail Visit Report

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    JAIL VISIT REPORT INTRODUCTION: Custody‚ care and treatment are the‚ three main functions of a modern prison organization. For over 100 years‚ there was emphasis on custody which‚ it was believed‚ depended on good order and discipline. The notion of prison discipline was to make imprisonment deterrent. Gradually‚ the objective of imprisonment changed from mere deterrence to deterrence and reformation. Crime is the outcome of a diseased mind and jail must have an environment of hospital for treatment

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    Prison Gangs

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    Most prison gangs do more than offer simple protection for their members. Most often‚ prisons gangs are responsible for any drug‚ tobacco or alcohol handling inside correctional facilities (Garbarino 50). Furthermore‚ many prison gangs involve themselves in prostitution‚ assaults‚ kidnappings and murders. Prison gangs often seek to intimidate the other inmates‚ pressuring them to relinquish their food and other resources (Garbarino 59). Also‚ prison gangs often exercise a large

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    Juveniles Life In Jail

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    give juveniles life in prison with no parole? The answer is simple‚ no. if a juvenile commits a crime and is put in jail for life than they obviously did something worthy of getting put in jail for the rest of your life. And who’s to say there not fakeing good behavior‚ even psychopaths can hide their insanity. If a juvenile is going to commit a crime and get sentenced to life than they had to have done something so bad that they deserved it. We don’t put people in jail for fun‚ we do it because

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    Alternatives to Prison

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    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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    Corruption In Prisons

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    personal favors and benefits. In the United States prisons‚ corruption cases rages from those involving criminal investigating departments giving faulty forensic evidence which favor the prosecutor‚ jailing of poor in favor of the rich‚ illegal jailing of kids in adult collection facilities‚ bribing of law makers in order for them to come up with new crimes and many more. Prisons in United States At the beginning‚ putting criminals into prisons was aimed at improving or changing behaviors of these

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    The Problems with Prisons

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    Problems with Prisons The Michigan Department of Corrections annual budget is 2 billion dollars‚ and the average annual cost per inmate is $32‚000. 4.5 percent of the state general fund allocated in the 2009-2010 budget proposal. Michigan’s total department active personnel contains 16‚324 people. There are 50‚693 incarcerated under MDOC jurisdiction with a total of 49 facilities that have had 2 escapes. The parole system makes up 17‚435 people. Prison overcrowding is a huge problem

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