Advantages and Disadvantages of Private Prisons and Jails Learning Team A CJA/303 June 9‚ 2010 James Wilson Advantages and Disadvantages of Private Prisons and Jails In the United States‚ prison overcrowding and budget cuts within the criminal justice system have lead to an increase in the need and the development of private prisons and jails. According to Wikimedia Foundation‚ Inc. (2010)‚ "A private prison is a place in which individuals are physically confined by a third party that is
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Cuban Prison Systems Cuba‚ the tiny island ninety miles south of Florida has faced severe hardship for centuries‚ despite it being a communist country and the trade embargo put in place against the United States‚ Cuba has one of the harshest prison systems in the world. According to the United Nations‚ there are over 294 prisons and correctional camps in Cuba that house over 57‚000 prisoners spread across the nearly 300 facilities (Jackson 1). These inmates range from political dissidents
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The Flaws and Effects of Prison In the book‚ A place to Stand‚ by Jimmy Santiago Baca‚ Baca writes about prison and how being incarcerated can have impact on a person and their family. With the most beautiful‚ strong and poetic language‚ Baca tells us the story of all the people who faces difficult times in order to find their place in the world. Baca always felt like he had no place to stand in society because‚ all of his life he was put down by his family and friends. From the age of five Baca
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began movements in prison in order to fight for the acknowledgment and deconstruction of the slave labor they produce. Those incarcerated in the United States do labor at no cost‚ or receive little compensation in conditions less than inhuman simply due to the fact that they are or will be convicted of crimes. Therefore‚ as Kinetik Justice said in Solidarity From Solitary: The National Prison Strike‚ “These strikes are our method for challenging mass incarceration. The prison system is a continuation
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Summary Assignment Joan Petersilia in Wilson Quarterly publishes the article “Beyond the Prison Bubble‚” in the Winter 2011. Petersilia explains several alternative solutions to the U.S’s overcrowded imprisonment systems. She talks about how research has come to prove that crime rates and recidivism can be decreased. Furthermore‚ Petersilia’s article outlines the evolution of accepting this fact‚ as well as developing‚ funding‚ and refining various intensive rehabilitation programs. The first section
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Women’s Need for Gender Specific Rights in Prison Since the foundation of modern prison systems in North America‚ prisons have always been specifically tailored to run and deal only with male needs. Due to that women were just thrown in with them creating co-ed jails‚ and not being properly taken care of. This only slowly started to change in 1873 with the opening of the first women’s only prison in Indiana‚ USA.(IDOC) Since it was adapted from the men’s prison no specific gender laws were enforced and
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Does prison make the inner demon come out in the prisoner/guard or is the prisoner /guard already wired that way? The Stanford Prison Experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. This experiment was led by a psychology professor named Philip Zimbardo‚ he had the help of a team of researchers. The purpose of this particular experiment was to induce disorientation‚ depersonalization‚ and DE individualization in the participants. After a period of time
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With recidivism rates soaring‚ the establishment of prison GED programs should be a standard way to rehabilitate prisoners who’d otherwise have no future outside of bars. An example of a character from the book who would benefit from the GED program would be Crazy Eyes‚ a hard timer from the FCI‚ who’d graduated up the hill. Outside of Danbury‚ Crazy Eyes was a high profile drug dealer and a career criminal experienced with the nuances of prison. If she had the access and willingness to complete the
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of America’s prisons is owned by large‚ cheating‚ scheming companies who aren’t trying to achieve justice‚ they’re trying to obtain wealth. The two most eminent companies in the lucrative business‚ GEO group and CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America) are currently making several hundred million dollars a year. How do they make that money? Private prisons make the government pay them to hold the government’s prisons‚ but they also charge them for not keeping the prison full‚ by influencing
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Katherine Wallace N00621910 April 25‚ 2011 Beyond The Prison Paradigm James Gilligan relays an enlightening message in his article‚ Beyond the Prison Paradigm: From Provoking Violence to Preventing It by Creating “Anti-Prisons”‚ about the history and sole purpose of jails. Gilligan dates his research about jails all the way back from the first civilization known to man‚ Sumerian‚ to the jails we see and know so well today. At the beginning of time jails literally meant “house of darkness”
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