With private prisons not cracking down on safety it makes it more dangerous for inmates to be held there. Private prisons confiscated eight times more cell phones than they did in the state facilities. They even had a higher rate of physical assaults. A big problem in any prisons is sexual assault. vox wrote an article “A federal report just confirmed it: for-profit prisons are more dangerous than public ones” is about the danger in private prisons. In this article that can be found at https://www
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Introduction The population of the mentally ill in prison is growing in result of the individuals not being treated properly in the community and while in prison. Officials believe that if you confine dangerous criminals it will decrease their sense of violence; however‚ Segregation is not an effective form of punishment for these individuals. Fitter treatment needs to be provided in prison for prisoners with mental illness as well as after their release. If the prison system does nothing‚ then mental illness
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main issues in male prisons. What I believe are the top three issues in male prisons today are overcrowding‚ the overall effectiveness of rehabilitation programs in prisons‚ and gang activity. These three issues cause a lot of problems and frustration in the daily lives of these male prisoners. I will also be informing you about how these issues and how I feel the criminal justice system can improve on these issues. Severe overcrowding is one of the major problem in most prisons. They are so overcrowded
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officials to cut down on misconduct‚ and begin enforcing more controlling policies and regulations in schools (“The School to Prison Pipeline”). Although one would expect actions like so to help solve the problem‚ they ended up making the problem even worse. By implementing stricter disciplinary codes in schools‚ these officials ended up creating what is now known as the school to prison pipeline‚ a situation for students in which their time spent in an educational institution results in a life entangled
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activities‚ and satisfy public opinion via an appropriate treatment regime for persons convicted of criminal offenses. The main focus is on punishment and penal institutions‚ such as the prison‚ and their possible justifications. The Oxford English Dictionary defines penology as "the study of punishment of crime and prison management"‚ and in this sense it is equivalent with corrections. Penology is concerned with the effectiveness of those social processes devised and adopted for the prevention of
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There was a case in Arkansas where a man that was classified as a paranoid schizophrenic murdered a shop keeper. All they did in prison for him was offer antipsychotic‚ and they did not make sure that he was taking this medication. Without the proper treatment and care this inmate was still considered a danger to himself and others. He got a lethal injection ending his life (McLellan‚ 2004). If this man would have been the proper care by the jail they would have been able to keep his paranoid schizophrenia
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Prisons as Punitive or Rehabilitation The number of inmates in our prisons is increasing more every day. We need to find a more effective way of keep people from committing crimes and keep them out of our prison. The intervention of our prisons being punitive or rehabilitation in nature should change our prisoners. Restorative justice is a innovative movement for our prisoners to promote forward thinking (Furio‚2002). Of course it is difficult to look at a murderer with the equal belief. The thought
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THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT One of the most interesting studies made in history was led by Philip Zimbardo‚ a psychologist and a former classmate of Stanley Milgram (who was famous for his Milgram experiment). He sought to expand on Milgram’s experiment about impacts of situational variables on human behavior by simulating a prison environment‚ in which volunteering students were randomly assigned as prisoners or prison guards. Many controversies have been elicited from this experiment‚ and it
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of these agencies is to keep the peace and abolish crime‚ these poor minority men are thrown behind bars for an arrest far greater than what they have committed. The number and type of men thrown into prison indicate that there is a racial inequality and corruption within the penal system. Prison population increased dramatically in the early 1970s once laws became stricter. Drug laws became stricter and the law targeted young black men who dropped out of high school. Incarcerated drug offenders
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African Americans are incarcerated in state prisons at more than 5 times the rate of whites on average. For example in Oklahoma has the highest incarceration rate for African-Americans. Approximately 4.6% of all African-American males in Oklahoma are incarcerated compared to of only 0.9% white males. In California 1 out of every 22 African-American adult male is in state prison. The racial disparity is greatest in the category of drug arrests and indicates institutional discrimination against African-Americans
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