Custodial Model Of Incarceration

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International Corrections is defined as any corrections intuition that is located outside the United States and should be a great interest in the discovery of what works and what don’t work. The three models of incarceration currently used in the United States is the custodial, rehabilitation, and the reintegration models. The first of the three is the custodial model which is based on the assumption that prisoners have been imprisoned in order to protect society. The second of the three is the rehabilitation model which emphasizes treatment programs such as drug and alcohol programs to reform the offender. The third of the three is the reintegration model which focuses on issues such as the lack of education and poverty. This paper will compare

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