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    Mentally Ill individuals have been dramatically increasing inside the Corrections System of the United States and have become a great problem for all prison institutions. According to a piece of writing written by Roy Walmsley titled “[The] World Prison Population List” states that the United States holds approximately 2,239,751 prisoners in penal institutions including pre-trial detainees as of late 2011 (3). That’s almost 22% of people incarcerated world-wide, which is roughly 10.2 million…

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    In 2013, more than 4,200 Californians were arrested for nonviolent drug offenses. Meanwhile, criminal rehabilitation services are exceptionally poor, and often not offered to the majority of criminals. Proposition 57 gives parole opportunities to non-violent criminals, and offers merit points for criminal rehabilitation. It extends the freedoms of those who have been unfairly sentenced by the justice system, ensures public safety, and decreases prison population. Although many oppose this…

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    Three Strikes Law Cases

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    strikes off the streets? Due to the Three Strike Law judges have been given disproportionate sentences in years. For instance, hours after the law went into effect California had its first offender, arrested…

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    The Adult Probation Department then assumed responsibility for collecting data and updating these charts for subsequent reports, including Realignment in San Francisco: Two Years in Review, released in January 2014. Throughout the three years of Realignment implementation, San…

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    The purpose and the intent for this act is decrease crime and reduce recidivism. It also plans on increasing the threshold on certain misdemeanors and felonies. There is another act in place in California that has a completely different reform to fit its states purposes. I also found that the some of the committee members that helped create this act was not an involved in any criminal justice field. One of those organizations would be Memphis Tomorrow…

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    Correctional Facilities

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    The administrator of a correctional facility must build a relationship with the media especially with local media outlets. The best policy is be honest and forthcoming with media representatives releasing as much information as possible unless the information is part of an on-going investigation. If an administrator is ever caught in a lie, his credibility was be ruined. The first thing an administrator should do is to define what constitutes the media. With the growth of the Internet there…

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    county sheriff department. There are many types of jails, most jails are run by the county, and however, many jails are run by city or town which they are located. Few jails are privately…

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    Prison Population Problem

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    That means 40% of prisoners in the united stated return to prison within three years of being out. This not only serves as a problem with prison population rising, but also with prison costs on the taxpayer. Like the piece above states that the corrections system already costs the states $52 billion dollars annually and with prison population growing the number can only be expected to rise. When we talk prison costs we are not only looking at the cost to house a prisoner, but also the costs to…

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    Crimes Of Sex Offenders

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    facility (Arizona State Legislature, 2017). And in certain states like Texas the laws can be even stricter. According to The Texas Department of Public Safety (2017), many cities have created a “child safety zone”. This zone keeps child sex offenders from going near or living near such places as schools, parks, kids arcades or anywhere children may visit (The Texas Department of Public Safety, 2017). While the restrictions can make it tough for newly released offenders to find homes, the fact…

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    for 60% of the unauthorized immigrants. The six states that have been identified are California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois. From 2009 to 2012, several of the East Coast states saw an increase of unauthorized immigrants where the west coast began to decrease. Some of the states that had an increase were Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. While they increased we saw states such as California and New Mexico decreasing. (Krogstad, J., & Passel, J., 2015) It could be…

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