The articles, “Improving the mental health care of prisoners”, by Alexis Warrilow and “Improving access to psychological therapies in prisons”, by Andrew Forrester, Frances Maclennan, Karen Slade, Penelope Brown and Tim Exworthy both address the issue of mental health care in prison. The perspective of both clearly states that is measures were improved in prison to deal with mental health problems; we would have least reoccurrences when prisoners are released from jail. The research problem being
The prisons population is a group of people I was taught to stay away from as a child. The mentally disabled people population was categorized as a group of people that were dangerous too. My mother was extremely protective over me, her youngest daughter; and through these primitive assumptions by her, it seemed to me that she was afraid of these groups of people herself. Coming out of my comfort zone, and choosing the “prisoners with mental illnesses” group for my Model for Change assignment, I
For the most part, probation and diversion have a positive purpose. They both give an effort to give offenders, who commit lesser crimes, a chance to turn their lives around and avoid incarceration. According to Schmalleger and Smykia (2015), even though probation and diversion have a good purpose, there are small issues that can be found in them (p. 93). One of the small issues is that some believe offenders can be motivated to offend again if they feel like they can get off with something like
The prison boom of the past three decades has caused prison populations to skyrocket. One statistic wrote there more prisons built in during this time than schools. Each year thousands of people are incarcerated for drug convictions receiving outrageous sentences. Many of these inmates will be stuck in a perpetual cycle because of the major issues concerning how this war is being waged. With the alarming growth rate of US prison, many inmates will be unable to receive the treatment necessary
In the Essay “Probation and parole are good alternatives to incarceration” the author is stating that prisons are in a need to shut down because of alternatives to incarceration. The author thinks that probation and parole are good alternatives to serving full sentences. But in contrast the essay “There are high cost to incarceration alternatives” the author states that there are high costs to letting criminals back into society on probation. In this society I am a firm believer that a criminal should
in part, imprisoned because they are a danger to society, but time in prison is not changing that. Once released, recidivism for American inmates is very high, “Within three years of release, about two-thirds (67.8 percent) of released prisoners were rearrested.” and “Within five years of release, about three-quarters (76.6 percent) of released prisoners were rearrested.”(Recidivism) The rehabilitation programs in place help reduce that amount; “The Bureau of Prisons cites a 2000 study finding that
In the last few decades, the prison population has undergone a massive expansion. The United States is the world's leader in incarceration with 2.2 million people currently in the nation's prisons and jails — a 500% increase over the last forty years. Changes in sentencing law and policy, not changes in crime rates, explain most of this increase. There is increasing evidence that large-scale incarceration is not an effective means of achieving public safety or lowering the crime rate. The proportion
2.1 INTRODUCTION This chapter is aimed at giving and overview of the National Parole Board. In Zambia, the National Parole Board is tasked with the mandate of coordinating activities related to parole. The Board also has the duty of recommending the release of prisoners on parole to the Commissioner of Prisons. It also performs other functions related to parole that are prescribed by the Minister of Home Affairs in a statutory instrument. This is a great responsibility placed on the National Parole