240 Search Results for Correctional Staff and Facilities
institutional correctional staff experience, particularly as it mirrors the experience of inmates confined to these institutions. Search the Internet for at least one personal narrative of a corrections staff member other than the three videos you w Continue Reading...
Job Satisfaction in Correctional Officers
Current Situation
One of the enduring problems in modern law enforcement is the high rate of job dissatisfaction among correctional officers, which, anecdotally is even higher than job dissatisfaction rates Continue Reading...
Correctional Officer
Life for a correctional Officer
The assigned section describes the responsibilities, duties and challenges of a correctional officer. A correctional officer is one of the most important and responsible employees at a correction Continue Reading...
Dangers of Overcrowding in American Correctional System
There are several central governments, state and local authority's correctional facilities in the United States. Over the past few decades, the rate of crime occurrence has significantly increa Continue Reading...
ARIZONA'S CORRECTIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
Prison Healthcare
Arizona's Correctional Healthcare System
The Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) is the agency ultimately responsible for providing healthcare to the state's prison population. Even th Continue Reading...
Correcting Corrections
Program for training correctional officers
The rehabilitative nature of incarceration depends to a great extent on the environment that an inmate experiences. If an incoming prisoner enters a world filled with corruption, dru Continue Reading...
The significance of ethical leadership in criminal justice and correctional organisations cannot be overemphasised. These organisations must put in place and enforce policies to ensure officers constantly act in accordance with the law and the expect Continue Reading...
Correctional Officers:
As an attorney working in the Office of the Inspector General in the State Bureau of Prisons, I have been asked to evaluate two major issues involving various correctional officers at the state prison and the behavior of the Continue Reading...
Constitutionality of a Postcard-Only Mail Policy
Postcard-Only Prison Mail Policy
Constitutionality of a Prison Postcard-Only Mail Policy
The Constitutionality of a Prison Postcard-Only Mail Policy
The state Department of Corrections (DOC) has re Continue Reading...
Drugs in Federal Corrections
Corrections issues
One of the issue faced by the criminal justice system is offenders with drug problems. Research has indicated that almost 70% of criminals entering the correctional institutions have injected drugs 12 Continue Reading...
Correctional Psychology
Duties of a Correctional Psychologist
An increasing rate of violation of crimes characterizes the current global environment. Different forms of violence and aggression, including drug trafficking and abuse, robbery, and rap Continue Reading...
Correctional Institutions Management
Correctional institution hierarchy
This normally includes the Unit manager, case worker, secretary, correctional counsellor, correctional officer, educator and psychologist or any other approved mental health wo Continue Reading...
Organization Models
Within the correctional system there are three different organization models which apply and are used in administrative and management purposes. These models include the authoritarian model, bureaucratic model and participative m Continue Reading...
Budget Cuts to the Correctional System
The country is still in the grips of a massive financial crisis. As companies and government organizations continue to feel the impact of the recent financial crisis, budgets are being slashed across the board. Continue Reading...
industrialized nation in the world has a higher percentage of its population residing in its prison than the United States (Liptak). This fact has witnessed a corresponding increase in the cost of housing and caring for the incarcerated which has co Continue Reading...
Corrections Facility
What contemporary problems exist within the U.S. corrections system? Explain.
The first issue that exits with the U.S. corrections system is that of priorities. The system is inherently reactive as oppose to proactive in regard Continue Reading...
Running Head: RESEARCH CORRECTIONAL SERVICES ISSUES (AUSTRALIA) Research on Correctional Services Issues in AustraliaIntroductionThe World Health Organization sounded an alarm regarding the state of affairs in prisons. The report warned that if there Continue Reading...
An inmate-to-staff ratio in direct-supervision pods of up to 50-to-1 (84).
Different communities and states have elected different facilities to provide direct supervision of prisoners as well. For example, direct-supervision dormitories have been Continue Reading...
Correctional OfficerCorrectional officers maintain safety and order within prison and jail facilities. A big part of their job requires that they be proficient with security systems, like electronic monitoring systems and surveillance cameras. Basic Continue Reading...
EClinicaWorks at Rikers Island
Rikers Island is a correctional facility that currently utilizes eClinicalWorks, which has emerged as a leader in medical software solutions. This paper examines the use of this electronic health records software at th Continue Reading...
2016 Most Violent Prison
Correctional facilities have the responsibility of holding convicts and ensuring that their character has transformed by the time they leave the correctional facilities. However, these correctional facilities often face sever Continue Reading...
Caught Up in the System
One get tough policy in particular that has had lasting effects in contemporary times is related to measures designed to keep sex offenders from pursuing more criminal transgressions of the law. Specifically, some of these m Continue Reading...
Court Management Policy Proposal
The retributive and rehabilitative approaches of justice are dominant, and research suggests that they have disappointed the juvenile legal system. The rise in youth crime and critiques of the juvenile legal approach Continue Reading...
The average felony sentence imposed upon federal and state offenders in 1996 was 62 months, or just over 5 years. On average these prisoners actually serve 45% of a state sentence for a mean prison stint of 2 years and 4 months, and 85% of a federal Continue Reading...
The fact that a guard was able to take information from a prisoner's cell, and give it to prosecutors is a clear violation of basic procedures. As a result, greater amounts of oversight are required to prevent these issues from becoming a problem in Continue Reading...
The less stable the identities of the individual on the outside, the more impact the routines of life on the 'inside.' The deprivations of the prison culture (as described by Sykes) intensify the effects of immersion. These losses include the "loss Continue Reading...
Inmate Classification in Iowa
Iowa Inmate Classification
The classification system used for prison inmates is primarily designed to stratify prison populations by their tendency to commit violent acts, either in public or in the prison system (revi Continue Reading...
Prison overcrowding is indeed a grave problem that many states face. It is a phenomenon that both the international and national parties have faced for decades (Howard,1996). Overcrowded correction facilities may lead to the failures of programs in t Continue Reading...
Prisons as an Area of Corrections
Throughout the years, prisons have become a major component of the criminal justice system since they act as institutions that help in punishment of convicted criminals and deterrent for crime prevention. This artic Continue Reading...
Race, Class and Gender and Correctional Settings
Today, the United States incarcerates more than 25% of low-income young black males, so it is reasonable to suggest that there is an inextricable relationship between race, socioeconomic class and ge Continue Reading...
Our findings show that social and psychological aspects of work situations are indeed significant risk factors for coronary heart disease, but not in the manner that might initially be supposed. While the psychological demands of work, along with t Continue Reading...
17). Therefore, the proper training of corrections personnel is left unfinished and unrealized which can result in leaving "members of the corrections community handicapped in their ability to address their functions" as corrections officers "in an Continue Reading...
Solitary Confinement Effects on Prisoners
There were two prison systems that were developed in the 1800s in the United States. These two prison systems were: the Auburn system and the Pennsylvania system. In the Auburn prison system the prisons had Continue Reading...
E-Clinical Works
Overview of the Institution/Organization
Corizon Health is the inventor and leading provider of correctional healthcare in the United States. It is a corporation constructed on more than thirty-five years of novelty and proficiency Continue Reading...
The sources provided background and reviews of published literature: Holmstrom (1996); Marcus-Mendoza (1995); and Osler (1991). Finally, three reports took on a narrower focus in investigating boot camps: Clark and Kellam (2001); Mueller (1996); and Continue Reading...
Should Prisons be Privatized?In recent years, there has been a trend toward privatization of prisons in the United States. Private prison companies argue that they can operate prisons more cheaply and efficiently than the government. However, there a Continue Reading...
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To date, there has been a great deal of reluctance to adopt a harm reduction approach in the United States for two fundamental reasons:
The first reason stems from the argument that if harm were reduced for users the result would be an incre Continue Reading...
Corrections
Gius, Mark. (1999). The Economics of the Criminal Behavior of Young Adults:
Estimation of an Economic Model of Crime with a Correction for Aggregate Market and Public Policy Variables. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. Oc Continue Reading...