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The Effectiveness of Prison Counselors

13 counseling teams, comprised of a "psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, nurse and secretary" (Younkman, 2003). Each team h...

Wrongful Imprisonment in Colorado

under the Constitution as well as the U.S. Code. In Colorado, however, false imprisonment may be a misdemeanor or a felony, depen...

The Psychological Consequences of Prison Life

available through the work of the well known psychologist Phillip Zimbardo. During the 1970s, he conducted experiments with a mock...

Faith-Based Prison Programs/Constitutionality

offer "equitable access to 31 faiths, including Baptist, Jewish, Native American and Rastafarian" (Padgett, 2004, p. 50). Neverthe...

Prisoner Psyche: The Stanford Prison Experiment and Abu Ghraib

prisoners are noncitizens being held in the course of military operations outside the United States" (Savage, 2009). The ...

Prison Overcrowding

the prison is not supposed to be a box for the miscreants to fester, but a real place for them to learn to become better people. H...

The Psychological Aspects of Prison

brought forth by the Stanford Prison Experiment. There have been many ideas bandied about regarding prison. Angela Davis for examp...

Health Care in California Prisons

health problems than the general population," meaning that health care is a priority even before the individual enters the facilit...

Leadership Styles of Nelson Mandela

arrest in 1956 along with more than 150 other passive-resistance protestors, all of whom were charged with treason (Brink 1998). T...

Drug Rehabilitation v Prison

pockets of those buying. Incentives exist for each of these groups. For one group the economic incentives are a positive factor ...

Social Institutions and Criminology

gangs, organized crime families, and crime in general, sometimes the family is what instigates it. Travis Hirschi for example cl...

African-Americans and Recidivism Rates

(Taylor, 2009). Most of the prisoners are from poor backgrounds and most have little education (Taylor, 2009). There are seven tim...

Keeping the Lid On the Prison Population

todays correctional facilities are failing everyone: the inmates, the guards and staff, law enforcement and society in general. In...

Education for Prisoners Is of Vital Importance

locked up while the other half watches it. Prison populations all over the globe are exploding, with the United States as one of t...

Prison Demographics

Criminal justice in this country has been the focus of considerable criticism in recent years. The costs associated with apprehen...

Cabanatuan, a Textbook Operation

mission and saved the American prisoners of war (POWs) being held by the Japanese at the Cabanatuan internment camp in the Philipp...

Stanford Prison Experiment

people with violent tendencies as they used the words "wanted for prison experiments" which could well have attracted particular t...

Overcrowding in Florida Prisons

properly! In 1968, the Nixon administration declared a "war" on illicit drug use and by 1972, the prison populations experienced...

Prison Programs - The Challenge of Political Interference

all areas of society. Not only does the incidence of crime detract from the quality of life of all citizens, but citizens must als...

Solving America's Prison Problems

deterrent because the electronic monitoring devices place the criminals at crime scenes that practically guarantee a conviction (Y...

California's Young White Males

one more campus for the University of California system (Malveaux, 2001,p.32). The prison building has disturbed the sensibilitie...

Three Strikes Law in California

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

HIV Positive Assessment Findings Summarized

can symbolize aspects of society that a community would just as soon forget, such as prison inmates. When social ills as poverty,...

America's 'Super Maximum' Prison Security

held in similar conditions of extreme confinement" (pp. 26). Abramsky details those numbers further by adding that, as of 2000, Te...

Social Control Problems

three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed into the cultures mainstream. They manipulate this so that the...

Aggression in Prisons

family and friends tend to be more involved in violence. The structure of the prison has been found to have an effect on the amou...

Prison Riots

people were injured (James, 2009). The suspected cause racial tensions between Blacks and Hispanic inmates. More than two decades...

Review of 2 Lectures

of factors, including socio-economic status and ethnic background; for example, 40% of African Americans have a fear of being murd...

Correctional Institutiones go Hi-Tech

RAND corporation (Bulman, 2009). It will be an empirical study that will reveal before and after incidents of violence. Prisons h...

Obtaining Information for Violence

250 people injured (James, 2009). Racial tensions between Hispanic and Black inmates were identified as the cause (James, 2009)....