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    Private Prisons

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    advantages that private prisons have over public prisons in today's society: 1. One advantage for private prisons is that is creates jobs for people in or around the community. This is an advantage because it’ll make the community happy and the prison happy. This is a good balance because the prison needs guards, cooks, receptionists, and nurses. This works out for people who need the money to help support themselves and their families. Research also shows that private prison help build up the community

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    Offenders In Prisons

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    There are three different types of offenders in prison. Among the prison population are special offense inmates, special needs inmates and special population inmates. Special offense inmates are prisoners with substance abuse history, sex offenders and terrorists. The Bureau recognizes sex offenders as a vulnerable population within a prison setting. Some sex offenders are designated to facilities where they receive specialized services. Drug offenders accounted for more than half the total increase

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    Privatized Prisons

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    Privatized Prisons Our country's criminal justice system is not nearly perfect. Imagine being in a jail where you must worry about being assaulted twice as much, you’re more likely to come back to after finally leaving, and they use your punishment for their profit. In our country, private prisons make this a reality for many inmates. The United States is faced with a broken criminal justice system due to privatized prisons; these greedy, for-profit prisons, are of lower quality and are a reason

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    Radicalization In Prisons

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    Radicalization process in prisons in not a new phenomenon. Prisons have served as a school for criminals throughout history. The education the inmates receive in these institutions can be either positive and allow them to progress once they are out, or very negative and lead to radicalize inmates with extreme ideologies. It is crucial to understand the definition of radicalization, which is a process by which an individual or a group comes to adopt increasingly extreme political, social, or religious

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    Forms Of Prisons

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    Allen all have in common? They have all been to prison. Whether it was for attempted murder and assault, or armed robbery and kidnapping, they all have been in prison for different reasons. Through the first forms of prisons in the US, to the rise in the number of prisoners, today’s prisons are so much different than what they used to be. According to easternstate.org, on July 27, 1776, in the state of Pennsylvania, the first United States prison was built. It was originally called Walnut Street

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    Life in Prison

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    imprisonment. As times past by the prison has taken on various shapes and forms. The quality and most conditions of prisons have changed in order to provide better living conditions for the inmates, but the main purpose of the prison has never changed, the online article Welcome to Stop the Crime states that “ a prison have four major purposes, these include retribution, incapacitation, deterrence and rehabilitation” (stoptheaca.org). This shows that the prison is there to ensure that criminals pay

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    The Prison System

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    Final Exam Essay Question #2 Question: Discuss the history of the prison system in the United States. Be sure to identify the various stages that the American prison system has gone through. Also identify what problems were present with each stage as you see them. Response: American prison system incarceration was not officially used as the main form of punishment in United States (U.S.) until around the 1800’s. Before that time criminals were mainly punished by public shaming, which involved punishments

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    Overcrowding In Prisons

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    spend on federal prisons alone (Eisen 2). Rather than being used to pay for new roads, bridges, public schools, and to better the community, tax payers’

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    Jails And Prisons

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    Jails And Prisons Adam Putnam CJA/204 February 18, 2014 Leroy Hendrix Jails And Prisons In the following paragraphs comparisons between the Rappahannock Regional Jail in Stafford County, Virginia and Federal Corrections Institution Petersburg Medium in Hopewell City, Virginia. The types of prisons will be identified. The major differences between the Rappahannock Regional Jail and FCI Petersburg Medium will be examined. Jail and prison culture and subculture as well as the violent behavior that

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    Private Prisons

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    Privatization of Prisons As state budgets throughout America become tighter because of rising costs, many are looking at private prisons as a way to reduce the cost in detaining inmates. Just like everything else in America there has to be a debate about it. There are those that are for the privatization of prisons and those that are against it. James A. Fagin introduced this topic in his text book CJ2013; he discussed the major selling point of private prisons, and the problems that states are

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