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to a lengthy prison sentence. From the arrest, to the trial, to the sentencing, your tax paying dollars are at work going towards what some call the never-ending cycle of the criminal justice system. Proposition 47, an attempt to reduce…

this second chance. However, according to the National Institute of Justice study performed in 2005 it tracked over 400, 000 prisoners in thirty states and found that within three years of their release 67.8 percent of those individuals returned to prison and jail (Durose, Matthew, & Cooper 2014).…

Introduction There is a significant problem with crime in the United States. Prison sentences are long, harsh and damaging to inmates and prison sentences do little to deter criminal behavior. Furthermore, a portion of criminals, in the prison environment, either enter the prison environment with a mental illness or they develop a mental illness while incarcerated (Steadman, Osher, Robbins, Case, & Samuels,2009). A significant way to reduce criminal behavior in the United States is to prevent…

ready and secure at all times (Callisto,2004). When it comes to the work release program, there will be a screening process. Those who have less disciplinary actions around the prison, those who are working within the prison and showing improvement will be able to go. This gives those who are working on the inside of the prison more control over the inmate who are still in there while the other are on work release. Inmates who aren’t usually the instigators will be away from those who do…

attention, but they also need more medical services, welfare, treatment, and more. In prisons, “prisoners tend to experience accelerated aging, causing them to have health issues that usually happen to ages higher than they currently are, meaning they may be 55, but might be suffering from health issues of 65 year olds” (Kim, KiDuek). So because of accelerated aging, prisoners are aging faster than someone outside of prison. This cause more problem as health issue is showing up in 55 year olds…

By only using prison as a punishment it does not allow the offender to see the implications of their actions. Restorative justice should be used more to reduce recidivism, according to a study in the United Kingdom after using restorative justice. The recidivism rates were down by 27% after two years. (Taylor and Thorpe.…

The two sources I will be analysing and comparing are both in favour of a de-crease in capital statutes but for very different reasons and together they are repre-sentatives of a change in mentalities towards capital punishment in the first half of the nineteenth century. The first primary source under study is an extract from the Report of the select committee on criminal laws. This committee was set up in 1819 by the House of Commons and was expected to publish a report on the state of…

19-years-old Singleton sentencing was, death for a capital felony-murder and life imprisonment for aggravated robbery; Arkansas’s Supreme Court affirmed conviction and sentence on October 30, 1979 (Charles Laverne Singleton #887, n.d.). In 1997, a prison psychiatrist diagnosed Singleton with paranoid schizophrenia; in this same year a medication review panel ordered Singleton to take antipsychotics because they believed that he was a threat to himself and others. Singleton was on death row for…

The primary goal of prisons is to keep criminals away from our community, and to rehabilitate inmates. We as society want to be protected, and safe in our jobs, homes, and cities. Eventually offenders will be released after they serve their sentence; thus, they will be part of our community soon. The process of leaving the prison can be very hard, especially for a felon cases, that they spend a long time in prison, so they do not know what challenges would they face outside in the community.…

In the early 1990’s, negative perceptions of the prison system brought about the “Nothing Works” doctrine, which argued that rehabilitation programs are a waste of the public’s time and money when concerning criminal behavior. Therefore, the Nothing-Works doctrine was the beginning, and brought about the truth-in-sentencing laws that were enacted to reduce the possibility of early release from prison. The primary goal of the truth-in-sentencing laws was focused on retribution and was implemented…