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    Confinement In Prisons

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    Pennsylvania, and the Auburn prison projects.This is done in order to help understand the progression of these experiments, and to compare them to the prison culture of today. Through evaluation, it is clear that while many practices in prisons have in fact change. Mostly due to discrepancies relating to cruel and unusual punishment. The end goal has till remained the same. That being to deter people from committing crime by using the fear of going to prison as a weapon. Modern prisons are a very complicated

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    Rape In Prisons

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    rape in prison and how much is it going unreported. Does the public like at rape in prison as seriously as maybe we should. With the ones that are getting reported what comes from it. What happens to the inmates, guards and the victim? Male rape in prison is somehow more except and joked about, some even see it as that you had it coming to you like you deserve whatever happens to you in prison because you are in prison for a number of reasons. What kind of person is coming out of prison after

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    Illness In Prisons

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    about the negatives of mentally ill in the prison system. I have also found information on the impacts of solitary or the impacts of the negative environment on the metal stability of those in prison. However, finding information on what is being done to improve conditions has been harder to find. While the Ted talk I found was not specifically focused on the improvement of the mentally ill but instead focused on improving overall conditions in prison. The speaker focused on giving the prisoners

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    The American Prison

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    The American Prison framework is coming up short us as a country. As exhibited by Brain Kincade the American restorative facilites framework is monstrous. The American Prison is enormous to the point that it's reviewed turnover of $74 million obscurations the GDP of 133 countries. The greater part of it needs to do with the way the American true blue structure works and how it has changed over the traverse of the most recent 40 years. The country detain masses has quadrupled to 2.2 million in which

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    The Death Of The Prison

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    Prisons have been around for many years. The prison was created as a punishment for individuals who broke the law. There could be many reasons for a person to receive imprisonment; ranging from homicide to fraud. Due to many law violations, there are more people in prisons and jails. From the year 2000 to the present, there was an increase. Jails and prisons house about 1.6 million individuals (Peak, 2012). There are many reasons why there is an increase in individuals going to prison. The first

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    Prison Population

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    The United States has the highest prison population and population rate compared to other countries. The total prison population in the United States in 2014 was approximately 2,217,947 prisoners. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there are 744,592 in local jails and 1,473,355 in state or federal prisons (United States of America ICPR). The prison population rate in the U.S. (per 100,000 of national population) is 693, also in 2014. In the United Kingdom, their total population and

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    Prison Treatment

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    criminal justice approach rather than with a public health approach has resulted in over-crowded prisons and offenders in need of treatment. The rise of the prison population began with enactment of the federal Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 and The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 (Olson & Lurigio, 2014). Highlighting the escalating prison population, Olson and Lurigio (2014) noted from 1990-2000 the state prison population had almost doubled. Additionally, Taxman, Perdoni, and Caudy (2013) indicated of

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    The Purpose of Prison

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    The Purpose of Prison Robert Lingo CRJ 303 Bridget Lott March 2nd, 2012 The Purpose of Prison Not everyone is model citizens within a society. Individuals cheat people out of money, murder, rob, and rape others within society. When people commit crime against others and not stay within the law they must be punished. This research paper will discuss the purposes for prisons, and analyze conditions of prison. There are programs in prison and out of prison to try to reduce an individual from returning

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    Confinement In Prisons

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    2.3 million people are in jail or prisons in the United States of America. America's incarceration rate is more than 7 times that of European countries. 84,000 people in our prison systems are in solitary confinement. From 1995 to 2005 solitary confinement increased by 40%. From 2008 to 2013 it increased by 17%. Although solitary confinement has been used since the first prison, it is detrimental to the mental health and rehabilitation of inmates, and therefore should be banned from use in America's

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    Gap In Prisons

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    Research gap (in Indian context) Prisons earlier known as "house of captives" have been the part of the Indian society since ancient period. It was believed that separation and isolated custodial measure under authority would change the wrongdoer. But the conditions of the prisons were inhumane. After many reviews of the various committees, with the appointment of All India Jail Committee (1919-1920), a comprehensive study was launched which proved to be landmark in the prison reforms of the country. For

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