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    In the United States, 1 of every 2,000 residents is serving a life sentence due to the crime they had done in their lifetime. Inside the walls of the prison, One in every nine prisoner is serving a life sentence in due to chargers they have. United states hold the world largest population of offenders serving a life sentence. California holds a quarter of the 49,000 thousand offenders serving a life sentence followed by Florida (12,549) and New York (10,245), Texas (9,031), Georgia (7,938), Ohio…

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    Prison Population: The growing business “They speak about school system being used to feed young people into youth detention, jails, and prisons where those bodies are suddenly worth a fortune. People say that the criminal justice system does not work” (Bonnie Kerness). America has captured and controlled the population by putting our people in prisons while private prison companies like Corrections Corporations of America and The GEO group celebrate the fact that they gain more money as the…

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    there are a variety of individuals who interact with mentally ill criminals on a daily basis to make the rehabilitation process as speedy as possible. Police teams initially diagnose mentally ill criminals and send them to hospitals or jails and prisons; mental health professionals and correctional officers spend countless hours with them on the inside; parole and probation teams continue the process if those…

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    a prisoner in New York was $15,050 while the cost of maintaining the prisoner was $602,000. Similarly in Florida, the expense of death row and execution is estimated to be six times more. The prisoners, condemned, are not permitted to work in the prison to repay the state for the costs of his or her confinement. . A single death penalty case ranges from $1 million to $3 million. The state of California has the largest and costliest death row amounting to 714 inmates. Between 1980 and 2012,…

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    which makes it nearly 1885 participants a day. Those individuals venture plenty of barriers when they come out from the prison. They do not have any precise plan and different choices as a substitute than going back to their households. Leaving the jail and take a look at to keep up with the actual world could be very annoying and emotional. After getting released from the prison, nobody wishes to return to that location and check out to live out their lives as so much as feasible. The…

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    Should state prisons pay for prisoner health care? What changed the health…

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    Since the early 1970’s, overcrowding in prisons has been a major problem throughout the whole United States correctional system. The boom in prison population came from various movements going on in the United States in the middle to late 20th century, which led to police officers arresting criminals for even the pettiest of offenses. The overcrowding in prisons was derived from the very costly War on Drugs, the Get Tough on Crime movement, which encouraged the state of California’s three…

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    well prepared for their return into the community. There is a high risk of recidivism among parolees and they are not used to life outside of prison. In the year 2000, forty-two percent of parolees were returned to incarceration (Maruna & Lebel, 2003). Inmates need to deal with many issues once back in society that they did not need to worry about while in prison. They need to find a place live and somewhere to work or a means of legally acquiring income. Finding a job is hard enough, and for a…

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    If a juvenile commits an adult crime like murdering a family or multiple others should he be sentenced and sent to prison like an adult or just be sent to juvenile hall until the age pf 18? I personally think if you do a crime like any other criminal would I believe you deserve to go to prison for life like any other. Juveniles cant get away with everything just because of their age or because of their parents no! If they do a crime any adult criminal…

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    juvenile that has committed a heinous crime, such as murder or rape, could not be sentenced to death or to life in prison. I am against the death sentence because I feel that taking ones life to justify another’s is morally repugnant. Even if all teenagers grow and mature at a different pace, I agree with the minority who argued to retain the nullification of mandatory life in prison. Not all minors that have committed murder are guilty, but those who are guilty should be qualified to receive a…

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