Prison and the Mentally Ill
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RUNNING HEAD: PRISON AND THE MENTALLY ILL 1 PRISON AND THE MENTALLY ILL 9 Prison and the Mentally Ill Tiffany Ellis Psy 230 March 17, 2014 Michel Harris Argosy University Introduction
Prison
RUNNING HEAD: PRISON AND THE MENTALLY ILL 1 PRISON AND THE MENTALLY ILL 9 Prison and the Mentally Ill Tiffany Ellis Psy 230 March 17, 2014 Michel Harris Argosy University Introduction
Prison and the Mentally Ill
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RUNNING HEAD: PRISON AND THE MENTALLY ILL 1 PRISON AND THE MENTALLY ILL 9 Prison and the Mentally Ill Tiffany Ellis Psy 230 March 17, 2014 Michel Harris Argosy University Introduction
Overcrowding
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Alleviate Overcrowding America?s federal prisons are in trouble. They?re so crowded they?re endangering the lives of inmates and?corrections officers, the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Charles Samuels Jr.,?testified at a Senate hearing?on Wednesday. And the immense cost of confining so many people is draining vital resources from from other public safety endeavors, includinginvestigations and prosecutions. Politicians across the political spectrum, from Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) to Rand Paul (R-Ky.), increasingly agree that something has to be done. Send fewer people to prison for?drug crimes. The problem:?There are 219,000 inmates in the federal prisons system -- compared with 25,000 in 1980. About half are there for drug offenses.
Prison Reform Movement
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Mia Gore AP US History Mrs. Dellinger 21 February 2013 The Prison Reform Movement The prison reform movement, led by Dorothea Dix, sought to improve three major flaws in the jailing system: Overcrowding, ill treatment of inmates, and failing to separate those inmates with mental illnesses and give them proper care. Dix is quoted saying to the Massachusetts legislature: ?The sick and insane are confined in this Commonwealth in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, beaten with rods, lashed into obedience.?
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