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agencies that include adult, juvenile, intensive and juvenile intensive supervised programs. The Intensive Supervised Probation program traces its roots back to the prison systems. Prisons populations were increasing in numbers increasing causing it to become overcrowded. Alternatively, the state wanted to find ways to spend less money for prisons and at the same time effectively rehabilitate offenders. To accomplish such measures, the intensive supervised probation system was established to…

The history of correctional system Before the 18th century, the concept of incarcerating offenders in prisons as a means of punishment didn’t exist in American colonies. In this era, criminal offenders were held temporarily in jails until their time of trial. Only the felony offenders who saw their stay in jails extended due to the seriousness of the act committed. This didn’t means that the criminal justice in the American colonies took the offences lightly. All civil, religious, and criminal…

Is the American economics and the prison system a positive or negative impact on the system? The United States currently has 2 million people incarcerated more than any country in the world. This is a big issue because most countries don 't hold more than 2 million incarcerated inmates behind bars. According to Fitzgerald J (2015) “(bop) Bureau Of Prisons housed 214,149 inmates roughly 298 percent over its rated capacity”. The bureau went over its rated capacity when imprisoning new inmates to…

could help us delve deeper into the subject could be “why are so many people being put in prison”? or “is there something we can do to lower these numbers”? With the number of people who know someone or are affected by someone in prison, it is an important matter for us to be educated on. On the topic…

Under the U.S. Constitution, individuals who are sent to prisons are entitled to certain rights and liberties. Incarcerated individuals are guaranteed the rights to sustain a reasonable way of life. Some of the familiar rights afford to these incarcerated individuals include free from cruel and unusual punishments, access to the court, voices complaint about prison conditions, practice of free speech, press, and religion, free from discrimination and sexual harassment. Even though not stated…

for a much more reformed drug policy. She argues that while it should be almost statistically impossible to have this unprecedented level of racial bias in the United States justice system and prison community, America still finds itself putting a disproportionate amount of blacks and Latinos into the prison system every year, when in fact on average white males between the ages of 12 to 25 years of age are more likely to experiment with, sell, and become chronic users of illicit drugs and…

Deinstitutionalization refers to the policy of closing public hospitals and moving the mentally ill to private community-based mental health service providers (Torrey 1997). However, community-based mental health service providers are few and far between, and the development of deinstitutionalization has had severe impacts on the criminal justice system. Through the movement of deinstitutionalization, jails and prisons have been forced to accommodate those with mental illness.…

Despite solitary confinement being widely accepted and practiced among most of the prisons in the United States, there are several Supreme Court case precedents that help prove the use of this punishment is unconstitutional. In the Supreme Court case Trop v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86 (1958), U.S. Army private Albert Trop escaped from his punishment in a military stockade for a disciplinary violation. Even though he decided to go back he was still court martialed for his actions, and as a result he had…

Prisons Overcrowding and How it Happened “Get Though on Crime” The state of the overcrowding in the United States prison can be traced back to the 1970’s when the “Get Though on Crime” movement started in hopes to give harsher punishments for severe crimes in hopes it creates a deterrent for individuals to commit violent crimes. The 38th President of the United States, Richard Nixon stated “Doubling the conviction rate in this country would do more to cure crime in America than quadrupling the…

Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, is the tale of young school boys turning into savages. A similar situation to Lord of the Flies, known as the Stanford Prison experiment mimicked this. These two cases are similar but also differentiate from each other. Both cases differ in some major ways. During the Stanford experiment, grown men volunteered to be part of the experiment. In Lord of the Flies, little boys, ages six to twelve are left to find their rank on the totem pole. At the…