Over the past few decades‚ the prison population has increased dramatically in size. Statistically‚ prison populations consist primarily of undereducated individuals‚ many of whom suffer from mental health problems. Many incarcerated persons suffering from mental illness become aware of such conditions only after unfortunate encounters with the legal system. While others undiagnosed individuals continue to be shuffled in and out of various facilities before being labeled as criminals. Depending on
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Mental Health Treatment in Prisons This study emphasizes the fact that lives of prisoners are an understudied phenomenon in society. Researchers found that access into prisons for conducting personal interviews were difficult due to the increase of prison population over the past three decades. Researchers also realized that prisoners who were incarcerated or released preferred not to discuss their experiences behind bars for their personal safety and well-being. In the United Sates‚ prisons occupy over
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Discuss the differences between a substance abuse program (SAP) in prison and a program in the outside community. Discuss the differences between coerced and voluntary treatment. The readings address the use of coerced counseling in the prison system and that successes are dependent upon acceptance or willingness to adhere to the group’s counseling goals. What devices are available to ensure the success of counseling provided inside the institution? How do we judge the system’s effects on crime prevention
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Drug Treatment Programs PSY/425 January 8‚ 2013 Drug Treatment Programs There are many drug treatment programs available today. In this paper‚ we will identify Employee Assistance Programs‚ and Inpatient and Outpatient treatment programs. We will also examine treatment offered by programs (e.g.‚ individual therapy‚ group therapy‚ psychotherapy). We will attempt to explain characteristics of the most successful and beneficial for drug and alcohol treatment. Employee Assistance Programs
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Memo Date: March 27‚ 2013 To: Federal Bureau of Prisons From: Karrington C Norris Subject: Overcrowding of Juvenile Correctional Facilities Introduction Within the juvenile correctional facilities community‚ there are public and private institutions that both experience and suffer from similar problems. The problems that face these facilities are overcrowding. Through close comparison of the major issues with juvenile correctional facilities‚ the institutions are revealed to be ineffective
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Effective Treatment for Drug Addiction Introduction “Every year‚ hundreds of thousands of Americans undergo treatment for substance use disorder‚ also called addiction” (Hart & Ksir‚ 2013‚ p. 409). Drug addiction is a complex brain disease because the abuse of drugs leads to changes in the structure and function of the brain. It is a condition characterized by an overwhelming and uncontrollable desire or craving to continue taking a drug to which one has become habituated through repeated consumption
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Topic: Choosing adoption instead of abortion Purpose: To inform my audience about the many options there is instead of abortion. Introduction: Abortions kills as many Americans daily as the tragedy of 9/11. Every single year‚ abortion kills the same number of Americans as have been killed on all the battlefields in all of the wars in U.S. history combined. Central Idea: There are options‚ there are millions of childless couples who do not have the honor of knowing what it feels like to
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no one and it would be beneficial to remove them from the prison system‚ and into the parole system (D’Elia‚ 2010). Prison Cost Prisons are expensive to keep open‚ and most of the money to keep them open comes from the taxpayers. A study in 2012 showed that prisons cost American taxpayers approximately 5.4 billion dollars each year (Henrichson & Delaney‚ 2012). These cost include various expenses that include maintaining the prisons‚ employees salaries‚ educational training‚ providing benefits
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B CUSP 137A 10/28/12 Topic: Prison Treatments Laws in New York State Research Question: Have the prisoners’ rights in New York State been treated rightly after the Attica Riot? Annotated Bibliography Michael E. Deutsch‚ Dennis Cunningham and Elizabeth M. Fink ”Twenty Years Later — Attica Civil Rights Case Finally Cleared for Trial” Social Justice‚ Vol. 18‚ No. 3 (45)‚ Attica: 1971—1991 A Commemorative Issue (Fall 1991)‚ pp. 13-25 This is a journal uses the commissioner‚ the director
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The Main Treatment Options Oh‚ shit‚ Ramey‚" was the first thing I said when I walked in the door that morning. He’d been looking bad‚ but now one of his eyes was bugged out – probably twice the size of the other one. I’ve done a lot of reading about this since then. Usually it’s because the fish swims into something sharp‚ probably that ceramic decorative castle I had in there. Ramey’s fins had been disintegrating for a while; over a few months his velvety banner of a tail had succumbed to an
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