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Prisons and Improvement
Drug and alcohol problems for prisoners are treated so as to reduce the rate of relapse and recidivism as well as to lower prison misconduct and better relationships. Effective treatment consists of Drug Abuse Education, Nonresidential Drug Abuse Treatment (which focuses on cognitive behavorial therapy (CBT) and is helpful for prisoners with a short sentence or who are transitioning back to a community), Residential Drug Abuse Treatment (which also uses CBT), and Community Treatment Services, which offers a network of providers to released inmates.
The employment policies for prisoners in the U.S. differs from prison to prison, but prisoners can be employed by private companies while incarcerated; however, they will not be paid a fair minimum wage in most cases but will instead earn the kind of wages that their Asian counterparts earn, which is next to nothing. These policies have been described in some detail by journalists like Chris Hedges who has found this to be the case in for-profit prison systems. Arguments can be made that this type of employment at least keeps prisoners busy, but the implication is obvious as this is a type of slave labor that corporations like Chevron take advantage of. In prisons that are not for-profit, there is less risk of being taken advantage of by corporations in this way, and employment policies are a little fairer. Here the implications are that prisoners can participate in a trade, can learn skills...
Education classes are available to help with reintegration and with finding employment. This consists of learning to read, learning social skills, and learning trades. This is similar to the treatment programs and the employment policies: everything is geared towards helping the inmate become a productive and contributing member of society. Thus, this type of training has the goal in mind of lifting the inmate out of his or her problems and giving him or her the tools to be competitive in the workplace.
Effective correctional programming is based on identifying risk/reward motivators, identifying appropriate interventions for individuals and groups, removing offenders from antisocial belief systems, providing psychological treatment and CBT to help get the prisoner to think more positively, providing positive stimulation and reinforcement as well as on-going support.
Research indicates that this type of correctional programming is most effective in reducing recidivism and helping inmates to turn their lives around upon re-introduction into…
Correctional Services of Canada says that these programs are the result of acknowledge the woman as "her own beset expert," and are built on the premise that "earning to make informed choices and then accepting the consequences of them will enable these women to take control of their lives." There, a Literacy and Numeracy Program created just for female inmates aims to foster skills required for basic employment and
Prison Reduction of Prison Population Current impact Population affected Government Policies. Effectiveness of Policies Efficacy of the strategies This paper highlights the prison system and relates multiple factors to it. It gives a brief background of the topic and then describes the U.S. crises of prison system. In addition to this, it highlights various factors related to the prison population of Indiana. After that, this paper focuses on the present situation of the prison system and then
Prison Life and Recidivism Generally, recidivism in the justice system context entails the tendency amongst former prisoners or criminals to go back to their criminal lives mainly upon release from prison. In this case, recidivism rates are measured by having a look at the number of former prisoners re-incarcerated within a given time period. It can be noted that in basic terms, high recidivism rates are in most cases associated with
Education in the Community A major issue currently effecting culture, population, and demographics is that of wealth inequality. As the global economic downturn continues throughout the world, wealth disparity is increasing rapidly. This affects culture, population, and overall demographics in a litany of ways. First, due primarily to lower wages, families are postponing child birth. The uncertainty surrounding the future creates an atmosphere of fear. Families are now waiting until the
Prisons An analysis of the purposes for prisons in the U.S. justice system. The corrections system in America has historically fluctuated between being dedicated to incapacitation, rehabilitation, and to being punitive in nature. They can serve all three of these functions at the same time. Current trends in criminal justice remain focused on punitive justice that fosters prison environments lacking rehabilitative services, but recent scholarship and public policy have indicated a slight
Employment Law Early in 1978, Ed Harbour picked up a seventeen-year-old female hitchhiker on his truck driving route throughout the state of Indiana. Once he picked her up, he performed some very heinous crimes as he brutally raped and beat her. After he performed his business on this woman he left her in the sleeping compartment of his truck. Before this crime, Harbour was recently released from prison as this violent