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campaign contributions, and lobbying power, while attempting to alter the rhetoric of justice into the dialect of the marketplace. With this, they accuse government agencies of having a monopoly on prisons and espouse the need to downsize. These Private Enterprises claimed that they can manage prisons more efficiently and cheaper while saving the taxpayers money. Studies, some moderately funded by the industry, regularly conclude that states can save money by using for-profit institutions.…

that the longer a sentence for an offense, the less likely a person would re-offend. The researchers found that longer sentences resulted in a three percent increase in recidivism. Offenders who spent 30 months in prison had a 29% recidivism rate and prisoners serving a 12.9 month prison sentence had a 26% recidivism rate. They also found that being incarcerated rather than performing community service resulted in a 7% increase in recidivism. When sentences are shorter, offenders are more likely…

1. An article “Responsible Prison Reform” falls under conservative on the political spectrum. The reason, I believe this article falls under conservative is because in the article Eli Lehrer talks about how once again, they are leading the way toward the strengthening the sentence rules and other strategies that augmented incarceration rate. Therefore, they should lead the way in rationally reducing the prison population where the incarceration should be changed. For example, in the article, Tom…

Other important factors include immunization of the population as well as isolation of infected persons, universal precautions, education about hygiene, and preventing the spread of HIV, hepatitis. According to Forde (2015), “The system of jails and prisons that holds those individuals has become the largest provider of mental health care in the country, with rates of psychotic illness many times higher than in the community.” Nurses in the correctional setting assess individuals for existing…

the CCA and other private prison 's profits were skyrocketing. Private prisons have no incentive to decrease crime because it would decrease their profits. They would even compromise the safety of inmates, staff and the community by minimizing cost of staff, security and services if it meant they would profit from it. The most important thing for private prison corporations is money, they see prisoners as an opportunity to make money and not a human being. Private prisons motives are purely to…

have thought of. However, historically work camps have gained a negative connotation do to the tragic events of the holocaust and other tragic cases. Cases such as the events at a Texas work camp that resulted in the injury and improper treatment of prison workers have led to work camps being looked upon negatively (Walter). In the Texas work camps, conditions were deemed unacceptable but could have easily been avoided if the appropriate inspections had taken place and if the prisoners were…

There has been an argument between rehabilitation and retribution. The juvenile justice system focused on two principles: the individual assessment of juveniles and rehabilitation (Guttman, 1995). Some feel that juveniles are denied their due process in the juvenile system, they put thir focus on rehabilitation and treatment. Individual treatment was the guiding principle for the juvenile. The juvenile court was based on a social service entity that "provided intelligent assessments of…

for every 7 persons executed.” These 87 people were saved, but there are also others who have been killed and were innocent. Bringing these innocent people so close to death for a crime they didn’t commit doesn’t progress our society. With a life in prison sentence, people who are proven innocent can at least be justified . The death sentence doesn’t allow for this…

Prison is a place no one willingly wishes to be in. Although many people do enter into this world, few actually tell their tale to the public. Stephen Reid is a criminal; a stone cold gang member and bank robbing criminal. He is also a father, devoted husband, friend and a writer. For those of us who have never been on the inside, Reid tells a story in his book A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden of how he was sentenced to many years in a maximum security prison and what life in prison is actually…

Because prisons are extremely labor intensive, with approximately 65 to 70 percent of the costs of operating a prison going to staff salaries according to a Global Investment and Business Center report, reducing expenditures associated with operational costs would in turn lead to a more cost effective operation. This is possible as private firms typically use cheaper nonunion labor. The Adler School Institute on Public Safety and Social Justice reveals that the average private prison employee…