In today society, there is more than 2.3 million who are being held in jail and prison. In 2010, there were 330,000 mentally ill patients in jail or prison (Hunt, 2011). In the last two decades the number of people incarcerated has been on an unprecedented rise. The number of people in prison, jail, and Federal Prison are on the rise due to gang violence, the war on drug, the stiff penalty they give first time offenders, and the number of mentally ill people who are in prison or jail. Instead of send these mentally ill inmates to a hospital or some form of mentally health place to help deal with these people. However, due to the jail and prison increase and the cost it takes to house these inmates. The purpose of this paper is to examine the
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The benefit of the program is well document threw it many success stories. One of the benefit of this program is it reduce the number of trail that have to be process though the court system. The program also helps ease the pain and suffering that the victim and the community had to go through. First time offenders have the opportunity to volunteer in the community so they can regain their trust and honor. The program benefit offenders by helping them repair their lives learn from their mistake, and to help them understand the justice system is not the path they want to go down. According to Vermont Court System (2012), they have an 84 percent success rate in the number of offenders who completed the program and did not commit a crime in a 2 year spanned following completion of the program. This Diversion program gives First time offenders and Juvenile offenders the alternative of something better than prison. It also relieves a lot of pressure on the DA office and the rest of the court system. These programs are very cost effective because, it cost less of a burden on the Criminal Justice …show more content…
Imprisonment works in two areas: these people who are committed this crime needs to be put away. Because, they decision not only affected their live, but the victim lives that they have put a burden on because of their lack care of the decision they though was right at the time to do. The other area is that it helps for short term outcome. According to Donohue, Siring & Hawking (2007), the country and world can benefit from ever further growth in the prison population. This industry has become a high demand one as many businesses try to tap into this 2 billion industry that has nearly 300,000 employee’s working all different aspects, in this booming industry with no hope of stopping the money from flowing into the Prison System. This system has to industry that are in near 1,500 facilities around the world the tire and license plate industry help these inmate have some to do to help ease the time. The prison system can benefit from First time offender, Juvenile offender, and repeated offenders. One way in which an inmate can benefits from being in Imprisonment is some time or a life time in prison is a better alternative to the death penalty. Because, it give the prisoner the opportunity to see their family and friends, they get to enacted with other inmate, also they rights to appeal their cases as many time as they want.
The benefit of the program is well document threw it many success stories. One of the benefit of this program is it reduce the number of trail that have to be process though the court system. The program also helps ease the pain and suffering that the victim and the community had to go through. First time offenders have the opportunity to volunteer in the community so they can regain their trust and honor. The program benefit offenders by helping them repair their lives learn from their mistake, and to help them understand the justice system is not the path they want to go down. According to Vermont Court System (2012), they have an 84 percent success rate in the number of offenders who completed the program and did not commit a crime in a 2 year spanned following completion of the program. This Diversion program gives First time offenders and Juvenile offenders the alternative of something better than prison. It also relieves a lot of pressure on the DA office and the rest of the court system. These programs are very cost effective because, it cost less of a burden on the Criminal Justice …show more content…
Imprisonment works in two areas: these people who are committed this crime needs to be put away. Because, they decision not only affected their live, but the victim lives that they have put a burden on because of their lack care of the decision they though was right at the time to do. The other area is that it helps for short term outcome. According to Donohue, Siring & Hawking (2007), the country and world can benefit from ever further growth in the prison population. This industry has become a high demand one as many businesses try to tap into this 2 billion industry that has nearly 300,000 employee’s working all different aspects, in this booming industry with no hope of stopping the money from flowing into the Prison System. This system has to industry that are in near 1,500 facilities around the world the tire and license plate industry help these inmate have some to do to help ease the time. The prison system can benefit from First time offender, Juvenile offender, and repeated offenders. One way in which an inmate can benefits from being in Imprisonment is some time or a life time in prison is a better alternative to the death penalty. Because, it give the prisoner the opportunity to see their family and friends, they get to enacted with other inmate, also they rights to appeal their cases as many time as they want.