When the death penalty was no more the jail suffered overcrowding which led to riots, escapes, and prison guards were attacked. The Pennsylvania Prison Society and the Philadelphia Society for Alluarting Misers of Public Prisons stepped in to solve the overcrowding issue by building Pittsburgh Western Penitentiary and Cherry Hill Prison. Today there are 1,200 prisons in the United States and overcrowding is still an issue. Lawmakers believe in three main goals of the correctional system: 1. Punish those who are found guilty of the
But I must say that parents are a huge and irreplaceable difference in the lives of children in terms of education, abuse, physical and mental health, drug use, pregnancy and nearly every other social indicator. Despite this, I do not think that prisons are a type of replacement for parents. Persons who do not learn to develop at home can hardly develop in jail. For single parents maybe the raising of the kids is not perhaps as with both parents, but education has the same purpose. Prisons can never give the same education or love from a single parent home.
A licensed practical nurse is below a registered nurse level and not even an RN can do this. Jerry knows that with his training he is not allowed to refill a prescription medication. Jerry knows that Valium is an antidepressant and addictive drug. Jerry is not allowed to refill this prescription because he is not a medical doctor, dentist, or a psychologist. He has training for a LPN and knows that no matter what type of medication a patient is asking him to refill he is not allowed to.
And prisons don't have the right resources for treatment of all these diseases. They are designed to rehabilitate and release prisoners back to society. Prisoners are required to follow-up with parole officers and receive other types of non-medical support to rejoin society. However, when a mentally ill patient gets released from prison, they are not provided any support groups or counselors to follow-up on their care. This can cause a relapse of the behavior and ultimately, a return to prison.
Serious offenses include all of the same offenses defined as violent offenses, and also include other crimes such as burglary of a residence and assault with intent to commit a robbery or rape (Prosecutors’ perspective on California’s three strikes law, 2004). In this paper, I will analyze and discuss the issues involved with “three-strikes” or habitual offender legislation. I will also discuss if the legislation should strengthened, cancelled, or modified in my state. For instance, since the placement of the Three Strikes Law in 1993, there has been a trickle effect on the criminal justice system due to the ineffectiveness of the Three Strikes Law. There has been a negative impact on public safety, county jails and state prisons, judge & juror as well as the cost that will be seen by tax payers now and in the future.
Jails were managed by the local sheriff department they housed individuals convicted of misdemeanors, and crimes from small infractions to severe crimes like murder. Jail and Prison Comparison King Henry II who demanded that these buildings needed to be built introduced the first jails in England in 1166 they were first called “gaol”. Originally these jails were going to be used for detaining offenders awaiting trial. Between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries vagrancy started to become a huge problem. Jails were now used to displace people like the poor or the mentally ill.
How can someone simply a blind eye to the idea that we might be not only harming our youth in the prison system but many upon many adults as well! This little statistic says so much about how our legal and prison system is run without saying much at all! From watching
When a criminal offence has a minimum sentence, the sentencing judge has no discretion but to give the person convicted at least the minimum sentence (MacIntosh, 1952, pg 47-56). Judges of all ideologies have felt that mandatory sentences unduly restrict judges' discretion and lead to unjust sentences (MacIntosh, 1952, pg 47-56). Judges facing harsh mandatory sentencing regimes have admitted to using "'a variety of methods to expand their discretion, including refusing plea bargains, assignment of offenders to probation and community service, creative interpretation of statutes, and recommendations to the probation department to allow alternative placements for mandatory sentences (Greenblatt, 1997). As stated by Robert Batey (2002) in “Mandatory Minimum Sentencing: A Failed Policy,” mandatory minimums take sentencing power away from the judge and give it to the prosecutor, who decides whether to charge the defendant with a crime carrying a long minimum sentence or some lesser offense. In exchange for exercising this discretion in favour of the defendant, the prosecutor expects something from the defendant, if not substantial assistance (by giving testimony, informing on others outside of the courtroom, or participating in dangerous undercover activities), then at least by pleading guilty to the lesser charge (Batey,
Prison Environment Shelly Collins CJS/230 5/15/2013 David Foltzer Prison Environment A prison environment is a place where inmates are physically confined and deprived of a range of personal freedoms. It is cold and unfeeling place to be. There are many levels of conflict and tension. The prison environment influences the institutional management and custody by the growing population and the gangs within the facility. Overcrowding aggravates the natural conflicts that rely within the prison walls which then escalate violence.
It causes overcrowding which is a one of growth in the state prison system. Overcrowding is best defined as housing Along with overcrowding; the war on drugs has tripled our prison population. Once the population exceeds the capacity, it becomes more difficult