This model of mass incarceration has become too trendy, especially for the state of California. In the past decade the state of California has spent more money on building prisons than it spent for school and university funding. We should rely on alternatives modes that prove more effective in deterring crime. Introducing more effective modes of rehabilitation and possibly excarceration altogether serves as a much better strategy. Amongst many others, some of these goals include the following:
Reentry programs are designed to assist prisoners that are about to be released with a successful transition to their community. Specifically, the focus of these programs aims to support post-incarceration re-entry efforts by helping with housing and …show more content…
The agency focus is still reintegration and resettlement (1) their concept is very similar to BRI (assist people are in or coming out of prison), however they work with all types of offenders. Span provides intensive support services and starts working with offenders six month before they get out of prison. The program is different for every offender based on their individual needs in order to ensure that he or she has the tools needed to build a new life, and achieve their goals (span). Span offers a variety of direct services as well as access services they may need at other agencies and programs, procure entitlements they are eligible for, such as Mass Health, Social Security and food stamps (2). Span also helps their clients who need health and/or mental health care, substance abuse treatment, education or work and other critical services by assisting clients to access collaborating providers (3). By assisting our clients to avoid returning to criminal behavior, we make our communities safer and provide a fiscally responsible alternative to repeated incarceration. Span 's average annual cost to help one client stay on a path of self-sufficiency and out of prison is $4,000, compared to the $46,000 annual cost to incarcerate one Massachusetts state inmate. (4) We believe that breaking the cycles of addiction, unemployment, crime, and imprisonment benefits everyone - victims, offenders, families, and …show more content…
Utilizing a community justice model that gives priority to the community can help prevent crime and enhance the quality of life in the community. A community justice initiative much like a court can be funded by diverting dollars from less effective, contemporary expenditures to more effective, community –oriented initiatives. One idea is that the offenders work in the community they victimized. David carp and Todd Clear suggest that the community should come together to realize common values in which citizens and professional superiors come together to influence the local practice of justice. Many disputes can be handled humanely in the community by the community, discarding the traditional adversarial approach of arrest/court/fine-or-prison approach. Generally speaking, the problem-solving movement represents a gathering of good ideas and interesting strategies borrowed from other disciplines, including meditation, the victim’s movement and therapeutic jurisprudence. For instance, community meditation is a process in which two conflicting parties come together to discuss their differences and agree on a mutually acceptable resolution with minimal intervention by a third person whom serves as a referee. Community meditation earns high points from disputants because it is fair and fairly quick, compared to court proceedings. Another form of community justice is restorative justice where the victim is brought to the
Reentry programs are designed to assist prisoners that are about to be released with a successful transition to their community. Specifically, the focus of these programs aims to support post-incarceration re-entry efforts by helping with housing and …show more content…
The agency focus is still reintegration and resettlement (1) their concept is very similar to BRI (assist people are in or coming out of prison), however they work with all types of offenders. Span provides intensive support services and starts working with offenders six month before they get out of prison. The program is different for every offender based on their individual needs in order to ensure that he or she has the tools needed to build a new life, and achieve their goals (span). Span offers a variety of direct services as well as access services they may need at other agencies and programs, procure entitlements they are eligible for, such as Mass Health, Social Security and food stamps (2). Span also helps their clients who need health and/or mental health care, substance abuse treatment, education or work and other critical services by assisting clients to access collaborating providers (3). By assisting our clients to avoid returning to criminal behavior, we make our communities safer and provide a fiscally responsible alternative to repeated incarceration. Span 's average annual cost to help one client stay on a path of self-sufficiency and out of prison is $4,000, compared to the $46,000 annual cost to incarcerate one Massachusetts state inmate. (4) We believe that breaking the cycles of addiction, unemployment, crime, and imprisonment benefits everyone - victims, offenders, families, and …show more content…
Utilizing a community justice model that gives priority to the community can help prevent crime and enhance the quality of life in the community. A community justice initiative much like a court can be funded by diverting dollars from less effective, contemporary expenditures to more effective, community –oriented initiatives. One idea is that the offenders work in the community they victimized. David carp and Todd Clear suggest that the community should come together to realize common values in which citizens and professional superiors come together to influence the local practice of justice. Many disputes can be handled humanely in the community by the community, discarding the traditional adversarial approach of arrest/court/fine-or-prison approach. Generally speaking, the problem-solving movement represents a gathering of good ideas and interesting strategies borrowed from other disciplines, including meditation, the victim’s movement and therapeutic jurisprudence. For instance, community meditation is a process in which two conflicting parties come together to discuss their differences and agree on a mutually acceptable resolution with minimal intervention by a third person whom serves as a referee. Community meditation earns high points from disputants because it is fair and fairly quick, compared to court proceedings. Another form of community justice is restorative justice where the victim is brought to the