Our justice system shows more sympathy for criminals than it does victims and this should be altered. It’s time we put the emphasis of our criminal justice system back on protecting the victim rather that the accused. We need justice for current and past victims, longer sentences and the death penalty is the way to achieve this. Death sentence provides a deterrent for prisoners already serving a life sentence. Nothing is to stop people who have been sentenced to life imprisonment to kill in prison; to escape and kill or to kill when their life sentence (minimum of 15 years) has been
It also backs up my other sources with the same research results; by removing the sentencing discretion of judges, and replacing it with mandatory jail sentences, we are sending more offenders to prison instead of programs designed to rehabilitate. Information in this article also supports my argument that mandatory laws violate the Constitution. Taking power away from judges is a violation of the 10th amendment “separation of powers.” As a result, our prison population has quadrupled and is filled with the wrong people. Mandatory sentencing applies so broadly that they sweep minor criminals and drug users along with the major ones, “drug kingpins,” who are the real targets of the statutes. Bender, David L. “America’s Prisons Opposing Viewpoints”4thed.Minnesota.
one of these major shifts spurs from the decision made in 1950 to close many of the mental hospitals throughout the nation. the initial goal was to move the patients from the hospital to a community based mental health care system. the belief was that these individuals would do better in a care setting that that focuses on and can hand their specific needs. the idea fell through the gutters mainly due to lack of funding and commitment to the cause. the second major shift in the rise of mental ill inmates was due to stricter sentencing laws implemented in the 1980's and 1990's.
School to Prison Pipeline September 4, 2013 In the video Attorney General Eric Holder Announce Major Changes to Criminal Justice System, he talked about how the Criminal Justice System is broken. He further more even talks about how children now a days are exposed to crime more than ever before. In his speech about the broken Criminal Justice System. He went into more details to talk about how we need to change why people are in prison. Attorney General Eric Holder says that prisons should only be to punish, deter and rehabilitate, not for the pedi crimes that people are in prison for now.
These types of clients need a different type of program or plan from a case manager. They need to develop skill to deal with what has happened in their lives to bring them to their current state in that moment in time. Within the corrections, it is believed that all need the assistance. All inmates or clients in this type of setting have wound up here in some sort of manner that needs to be evaluated and corrected. The idea behind corrections facilities is to take a criminal and rehabilitate them so that they may reenter society a better person and as one that may become a contributor to society instead of taking from society.
Sanctioning a person means that they are locked up in a centre (jail) taken away from the general populations so they cannot commit any further crimes. The aim of locking them up is to rehabilitate the criminal so that when released they can go back into the community and live a productive, crime free life. A quotation from a policy paper published by the British Government (1988) when Margaret Thatcher was prime minister. It defines three principles of punishment for serious crime: 1. 'Restrictions on the offender's freedom of action - as a punishment' (retribution, incapacitation?
Historical Events that Framed Juvenile Justice System Name Class Date Professor Historical Events that Framed Juvenile Justice System The juvenile justice system developed out of the Progressive Era’s push for reform in every aspect of society but especially in how criminal offenders were housed and treated by the criminal justice system. Before the Progressive Era male, female, and juvenile offenders were housed in the same prisons and subject to inhumane conditions. Through the influence of the reformers the light of the prison inmate began to change and a new prison system emerged that separated men and women prisoners and most importantly established the juvenile justice system. The fact that juvenile crime was becoming a real problem in American society during the latter part of the 19th Century was another important factor in the decisions of reformers and the criminal justice system to develop a juvenile justice system that would respond to the needs of the juvenile instead of treating them like criminal offenders (Cox, 2007). During this era members in society began to recognize the developmental difference between the juvenile delinquent and the adult criminal offender.
20th Century Penitentiary Systems Jessica McKittrick 12/16/2011 CJS/230 Josephine Kerr One major change in the penitentiary system was the elimination of solitary confinement as a primary form of punishment. Removing solitary confinement allows prisoners to socialize with other inmates, guards, friends, and family members. The inmates were allowed to be a part of groups like recreation, education, and work programs. Another positive impact on removing solitary is it made room for prisoners to be punished by incarceration due to cell sharing. Cell sharing allows local, state, and federal funding to focus on security
Over the course this study we will break down the different effects and try to figure out why our nation has increased prison inmates fourfold. One of the main phrases that is commonly used for the association of reintegration back into the free world is recidivism. Recidivism is the behavior that occurs when an ex-prisoner breaks the law again. There are many other problems and effects that lead to this behavior, some of the issues that they may go through are finding employment, reintegration, psychological effects and the effects of being institutionalized. One of the problems the prisoners face coming out of prison is finding employment.
Reintroduction to society II. Conclusion: Recidivism in the United States has tremendously grown and the reason for its criminal or antisocial behavior is due to its treatment program, or detention program. As many of us find it hard to cope with the real world, inmates is struggling to live from day to day basic. Prison is supposed to reform inmates however due to the traumatic environment; the possibility of rehabilitations is not likely. However, the implementation of; Prison improvement program has made it possible for prison to preserve the basic human rights of inmates.