to the society are shifting from not just maintenance of justice but also as a source of financial wealth. The new advancement is directed at allowing the straightening out of the contemporary faults that exist within the public prisons such as recidivism and overcrowding but there are some people who are opposed to this due to some possible negative results. In short‚ the process of privatizing the prison industry has both negative and positive effects and this paper seeks to address some of the
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“African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population” (N.D. ‚ 2016). In my opinion‚ If you grew up with going to visit parents and relatives at a prison‚ It will become your norm. Most African American children grow up with one or more parent or relative in prison or jail. I personally don’t understand how a child could have a fair chance at life under those circumstances. When I was a Correctional Officer‚ I have experienced an incident that I would
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A Broken System: The United States Prison System Abstract The United States prison system is not a suitable place for nonviolent drug offenders. The high rate of recidivism is caused by one thing and one thing only‚ prison sentences. Nonviolent drug offenders will have no choice other than to socialize with other inmates‚ some who have committed irreprehensible crimes‚ thereby greatly increasing their chance of becoming violent. The population of prisons in the United States is on a steady
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Prison Overcrowding Prison overcrowding is a problem largely attributed to the increase of drug convictions. Decades of tough-on-crime laws coupled with minimal financing for treatment programs have left prisons overcrowded and under funded. With the advent of crack cocaine and the response of a scared nation President Ronald Reagan declared a war on drugs in 1982 (Clear‚ Cole‚ & Reisig‚ 2009). In 1987 congress implemented mandatory minimum sentencing effectively increasing the time
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prison to be effective in terms of preventing re-offense. Rehabilitation is a goal that all prisons should try to achieve. Education and job training for prisoners can result in positive outcomes‚ including greater stability‚ independence‚ and lower recidivism. Prison education and rehabilitation are necessary in order to protect and prepare offenders for community living. There are various types of education programs that include academic‚ drug and alcohol treatment‚ employment training‚ and physical
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Plea-bargaining has been practiced in the criminal justice system for over 300 years. Controversial cases have brought plea bargains to the forefront and have created bias towards this practice. However‚ if plea bargains were not implemented‚ a chaotic and expensive justice system would be created. With such cases bringing a negative view to plea-bargaining‚ this research paper aims to show the positives and negatives of plea-bargaining. Critics of plea-bargaining believe that sentences demonstrate
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They cannot find structure‚ so they turn to crime. They need help but they do not know where to turn. Think of how our world might be if there were better programs focused on reforming out prisoners while they are serving their time. The prison recidivism rate would decrease. Crime rates would lessen over time. Prisoners will have the opportunity to move on in their lives after they are released. While some states have reform projects for prisoners in place‚ the Government needs to look into providing
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The ideal approach to creating change in any organization is to apply a realistic and deductive method of planned change. Within the realm of planned change‚ there is an eight-step process to implementing a program. However‚ there are four elements that are fundamental to any plan of action that will allow for an environment conducive to planned change. Planned change requires that those responsible for making decisions are not only rational‚ but must also have access to specific information pertaining
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org/4/3/3.php History of Parole in New York State . (n.d.). New York Division of Parole. Retrieved February 20‚ 2011‚ from https://www.parole.state.ny.us/introhistory.html Langan‚ P.‚ & Levin‚ D. (n.d.). Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) - Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 1994. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) . Retrieved April 25‚ 2011‚ from http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=1134 Missouri — Right on Crime. (n.d.). Right on Crime —. Retrieved April 20‚ 2011‚ from http://www
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education while incarcerated reduces their risks to recidivate. Although‚ the experts also found that inmates who received vocational education and training program had improved the opportunities of obtaining employment after release (Mohammed & Mohamed‚ 2015‚ p. 273). Mohammed & Mohammed restated that correctional education improves inmates’ chances of not returning to prison. Likewise‚ the research Evaluating the effectiveness of correctional education by Davis et al.‚ explained that in order
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