crimes, leading to more people spending time incarcerated because of nonviolent drug crimes. However, the time has come to compare the effectiveness of incarceration versus rehabilitation as a means of managing the problem of drug use. At the same time, considering the factor of one 's socioeconomic status as a contributor to incarceration for drug use. Effective change is needed to reduce the expanding rates of incarceration in the United States through the legal reform of punishments for nonviolent drug crimes, increasing funding…
Cramer, H., Lauche, R., Azizi, H., Dobos, G., & Langhorst, J. (2014). Yoga for multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PloS one, 9(11), e112414. The purpose of this study was to systematically analyze the effectiveness and safety of yoga on patients with multiple sclerosis. This study reviewed articles from various sources including but are not limited to those studies who have conducted randomized controlled trials (RCT). The trials the have been included on this study were…
Kataria, Rastogi and Garg (2013) explain the benefits of employee engagement as productivity, profits, growth, quality, customer satisfaction, employee retention, low absenteeism and job performance. How does this employee engagement, in turn, work to improve organizational effectiveness? The assigned article set out to answer just that question. It constructed evidence linking the relationship between employee engagement and organizational effectiveness; the long-term ability of an organization…
Mangino of The Washington Post, discusses the current situation in prisons and jails due to the high rate of recidivism among parolees in the American corrections system as well as the failures of corrections in prisons and jails because of the lack of rehabilitation programs available to inmates. For example, according to Mathew T. Mangino, of The Washington Post, "Inmates in federal prison who receive residential drug treatment are seventy- three percent less likely to be re- arrested" (The…
Unfortunately, until evidence based drug rehabilitation treatment becomes available to all Americans, societal costs associated with drug abuse will continue to escalate with millions falling into the “treatment gap.” The current costs and the limited availability of drug rehabilitation/treatment eclipse all opportunities for the majority of addicts desiring such services (National Institute on Drug Abuse 2012, 15). Therefore; drug abuse rehabilitation funding, availability, and quality of care…
corrections programs are varied. According to our text, the goals and objectives of community corrections mainly do include operational effectiveness that serves the fundamental needs and ensures the protection and safety of the public. Because of general overcrowding, one important objective of some corrections programs is to reduce the prison system population (Clear, 247). The corrections environment implements various goals to provide protection and safety to the public. The intervention…
Some states, like California, have found significant success in the implementation of drug court systems. Reductions in drug use, intensive supervision, and reductions in recidivism are some of the advantages listed by The Superior Court of California. Also listed by the Superior Court, less than four perfect of graduates from the drug court system return to jails. Through recovery based systems, drug courts allow addicts to receive the help needed to rid themselves of the addiction. Although…
The Program provides therapies to help patients regain self-care, mobility, communication, and cognitive and social skills to become as independent as possible. Pineville Rehabilitation Center offers Stroke Recovery Program, Joint Replacement, Cardiac Care, Dementia Care, Palliative, Comfort and Hospice Care, and Rehabilitative Services. A variety of health care professionals work with patients during their rehabilitation stay. These professionals include case managers, physicians, dieticians…
prisons the correction facilities that they should be. One suggestion that has been put forward by many experts, including psychologists, is the use of rehabilitation approach in prisons. Instead of forcing non-criminal drug offenders to serve long years in prison, they should be placed under a rehabilitation program. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the ineffectiveness of the American prisons and give suggestions on how to fix the system. In particular, this paper presents a suggestion…
because many inmates, especially those with a mental disorder, reject the help due to fear of being seen as weak or just simply no knowing how to get the help they desperately need (Manchester). The recidivism rates of these individuals when they have not received proper mental health care are much higher than other offenders. In fact majority of reoffenders are those with problems with substance abuse or another mental illness (Anestis et. al). If recidivism rates are affected by the mental…