RESEARCH PAPER

Juvenile Detainees Prison Life and Strategies to decrease recidivism



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Contents

Introduction3

Thesis statement4

Discussion4

Purposes for the prisons in US justice system4

Current conditions in US prisons5

Programs which seek to reduce recidivism in modern prisons6

Rehabilitative programs in prisons6

Re-introduction to society programs, or the lack thereof7

Current approaches to protect the public upon a prisoner's release8

New proposals to help protect the public and ensure that a prison does not re-offend upon release9

Conclusion9

References11

Juvenile Detainees Prison Life and Strategies to decrease recidivism

Introduction

The purpose of the paper is to rehabilitate an offender back to society and bringing awareness to the individual rights so that they cannot hurt anyone. The paper will discuss the purposes for the prisons, and analyze the conditions of prison. Many efforts are made to reduce the individuals from returning to prison by conducting different programs inside and outside the prison.

There are over two million people in the United States prisons (prison stats). This shows that the US imprisons more of their own people than anywhere else in the world. This is because Americans believe generally that they should and can rehabilitate their criminals. The concept behind this lies in the fact that they believe that the deviate can be molded in to being a productive member of their society. Whether this is possible or not; and that whether these traditional prisons are really the way to achieve this rehabilitation is a question, that is very much open for a debate (Andrews et al, 1998). In the united states each day the correctional system looks over these six million of its residents with two million in jail and over 4 million who are either on a parole or probation. With this much amount of people who are under its control the correctional system hopes to accomplish a central policy issue with those people who it places under community supervision or put them behind bars.

The American penitentiary since its inception in the 1820s, the corrections has clinched as a very significant goal the transformation of the law non abiders in to the law abiding which is treatment or rehabilitation. The goals at times of the reforming offenders have been prevailing, and at other times challenge has been brought forward towards its usefulness and legitimacy and its influence on the correctional policy being reduced. But even after years of its prolonged advocacy of getting hard on the criminals in the late 1900s, the rehabilitation maintains its integral part of the correctional venture and still continues to gain support by the public in the United States of America (Andrews et al, 1998).

In this paper we explore in detail the whole concept behind rehabilitation and use a historical perspective to evaluate the changing nature and the support as a correctional goal over the time for rehabilitation (Adam et al, 1994). We also discuss the current treatment models that could be found in the correctional system today. Perhaps the most useful consideration is the fact that whether the rehab is working to deduct ...