However, does the dramatically increased number of prisoners necessarily verify that the prison system is not working? Is it possible that the growth resulted from the changes of the laws as more things become illegal, the federal government passes minimum mandatory sentences? Perhaps many crimes for which a person would not have been sent to prison now require a prison term. That could be the reason for the increase. Then, can we literally say that the
Some cities and counties also have a department of corrections, to operate their jails or probation services. Most states retain discretionary parole release, under a statewide parole board; most states also have some sort of board that reviews requests for pardons, commutations, and other extraordinary relief for convicts”. (Frase, 2012) In conclusion all components of the criminal justice system work together to serve and protect citizens while protecting the innocent. Chains of command and rules are put into place to ensure that certain guidelines are followed to ensure the safety for all.
Organization values and structure ORGANIZATION VALUES AND STRUCTURE This paper will cover the organization and structure of Turning Point Community program. TPCP located in Sacramento County, including five other counties in northern California. TPCP services the population that suffers from mental illness and homeliness, such as [families, men, women, and children with more than 10 programs though in northern California to meet the need of this vulnerable population. It will cover a brief background history of the organization, organizational culture of the agency ,the administrative staff and their function, how the structure and power relationships influences the decision-making within the organization, the physical, behavioral, and verbal manifestation that affect the culture of the organization and how the organization collect, manage, and use information to implement their program. Background History Turning Point Community Programs (TPCP) is a community-based organization nonprofit company rapidly evolved throughout the years.
Reentry programming’s that consist of outside agencies have a need of more accommodating and consensual approach that varies from the strict decision-making processes of correctional institutions. Additionally, “entangling” institutional operations with social services can tax the patience and capacity of these institutions in ways not easily anticipated or resolved. The fact that the inmate population have considerably enlarged, the changed legal and political environment for corrections, and the disinvestments in prison programming that have occurred over the past three decades exacerbate these old challenges and also give rise to new ones. Correctional agencies have changed radically in response to the vast increase in the prisoner population and have become more bureaucratic in nature, which in turn affects their ability to implement reentry programs (Gorton 2002). In the past, researchers studied prisons as individual enterprises imbued with the characteristics of their wardens or superintendents (DiIulio Jr. 1987).
This has also had a big part in the current overcrowding of the United States prisons. I believe it would be a disservice to adopt other country’s prison systems. I believe that although it is costly and the largest in the world the United States prison system is fair and justified. I would rather pay more knowing criminals are kept out of society than to save a few dollars
The majority of probationers were white (64%); African-American represent more than a third of probationers, and Hispanics, who may be of any race, made up 16 percent of probationers. Almost all probationers have conditions placed on their freedom. The conditions imposed most often are fees, drug testing, employment and treatment. By the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the probation success rate is 62%. Most probation programs are designed to (1) protect the community by assisting judges in sentencing and supervising offenders, (2) carry out sanctions imposed by the court, (3) help offenders change, (4) support crime victims, and (5) coordinate and promote the use of community resources.
''Increasing the risk of arrest and the likelihood of going to prison produces modest reductions in property and violent crime,'' Dr Weatherburn said. ''But increasing the length of prison sentences exerts no effect at all.'' The effect of income on property crime was more than 14 times larger than that of arrest, while its effect on violent crime was nearly five times larger. ''The best crime prevention tool in the long run is not tougher penalties or more police or better rehabilitation programs, it's a strong and vibrant economy,'' Dr Weatherburn said. If governments wanted to spend less on prison without suffering an increase in crime they needed to look for ways of stopping people reoffending and returning to prison.
Moses Gueyger Husr 111 COMMUNITY RESOURCE PAPER For my Community Resource Paper I targeted the homeless population of Uptown Whittier in the County of Los Angeles. The City of Whittier has a population of 85, 331. according to a representative of Whittier First Day, the homeless population in Uptown Whittier can vary from 50 to 100 at a time. Some homeless find shelter in alleys in Uptown,while others go through the various programs in the area, like Whittier First Day, St Matthis Church, and some of the Christian based recovery homes in the area for help. Many of the homeless population of Uptown Whittier suffer from Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, and or Mental Disorders. Others have fall victim to the current economy, and just have no where to turn.
Jails are the watershed of the correctional system. They are locally operated correctional facilities that confine people before or after adjudication. The function of jails today are used for individuals pending arraignment and waiting trial, conviction, and sentencing. The United States currently incarcerates 1 in nearly 100 American adults. Reasons for people being in jail could be for probation, parole, bail bond violators and absconders.
Prison became the biggest profit making industry in this country. Like the military/industrial complex, the prison-industrial complex is an interweaving of private business and government interest. Its two- fold purpose is Profit and Social Control. It public rational is the fight against Crime. (Transition)Now that I have enlighten you a little, let me go more into details I The cost and profit of overcrowding prison annually (A) Non-violence and longer sentence, account for sickness and older inmates.