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Therapeutic Communities: The Two Way Texas Utilizes The TC Modality and Their Effectiveness Therapeutic communities have been utilized in the criminal justice system, as the primary form of substance abuse treatment, for decades. The state of Texas utilizes two different forms of TC’s; SAFP and IPTC. Both are modeled after a traditional TC, however, they serve two distinct clienteles. Along with TC there are accepted “transition” tiers of treatment in order to realize the efficacy of treatment.…

In the correctional system in the United States, inmates are assigned to prisons based on a classifications systems that examines the inmate’s likelihood of attempting to escape, assaults on other inmates or correctional staff, and the likelihood of committing other infractions, such as possessing contraband. Typically, most inmates are placed in general population with minimal security measures. However, there is a population of inmates that are very dangerous that must be assigned to a special…

The privatization concept has been used as a solution to manage the congestion of prison population at a lower cost. However, the results of this approach fail to meet up with humanitarian and social problems which are present in these private facilities. One could argue that the private prisons rather perpetuate the vast increase of prisoners (Anderson, 2009). Nevertheless, this does have a negative impact on the care of these prisoners in rehabilitating and treating them effectively due to…

Johnson uses many arguments in his letter that he sent to British Lawmakers. He is anti debtor’s prison and wrote this letter to bring the prison’s troubles to the light. He makes a compelling argument. He states how the people are treated, how many people there are in prison, and how it ruins the lives of good people. “A debtor is dragged to prison, pitied for a moment, and then forgotten.” The people in prison get punished for not paying their debt. These people aren’t all bad, but get…

Hunter Rodriguez Wabash or Miami The Wabash County Jail was built in 1979 while the Miami County Jail was built in 2009. While both have many similarities, they also have their differences. The Wabash County Jail and the Miami County Jail are different in these three things visitations, recreation, and housing. First of all the Wabash County Jail and the Miami County Jail differ from each other in visitation because the Wabash County Jail has 4 visitation…

The text “Abolish prison” by Pascal Emmanuel-Gobry conceptualized the idea of how using prison as a place to punish criminals excruciates more than aids because: criminals flourish, the prison rape epidemic, and many structural political reasons. The author begins the essay with how unsuccessful prisons are at the reconstruction of criminals and how the offenders flourish instead. Therefore, “...prison becomes a graduate school for crime, a facility for turning mediocre criminals into hardened…

Ideas can vary from rehabilitation centers to help those who have an addiction to assigning an officer to just spend time with the individual especially if that individual is an adolescent. Children that are young tend to do actions before they think of the consequences. Reasons for this is they may be, they are raised in a single-parent household…

Mass incarceration is a term used to describe the increase in the number of incarcerated people in the United States over the past forty years. The number of people getting put in prison in the United States started to increase since the beginning of War on Drugs in 1982. “US is home to 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the world's prisoners”, states the documentary 13th. There are currently more people in jail for a drug offense than the number of people in jail in 1980. The number of…

Based on the given details about the Arab prisoner and Daru, the school master, The Guest's theme and ideas center around the worldview of existentialism and the human condition. In the beginning of “The Guest”, the story describes Daru’s refusal to take the prisoner to his destination. (pg. 30; Exile and The Kingdom) Albert Camus, the author of “The Guest”, emphasizes some existential traits in Daru’s character: Daru chooses how to handle the situation with the prisoner and declines Baldacci’s…

This is a state of being confined. An abnormal retention or imprisoned. This is one of the methods the government uses to punish people for an offense been committed, or sometimes offense not been committed. So many people from the community are in prison out of injustice. The high growth of incarceration rates in the United States for more than four decades has spawned commentary and an increasing body of scientific understanding; in regards to its cause and the after effects for those…