Alternatives to incarcerations drug offenders
You have graduated from the AIU Online Campus, and now you are working for Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) within the long-term planning department of private prisons. As a Private Prison Design Specialist, you have the authority to conceptualize future prisons around the prison issues of today and tomorrow, so your supervisor has turned to you to discuss some issues in a paper of 2–3 pages to be submitted for review. You have a reputation for thinking outside of the box while being realistic and because of this, your supervisor feels you can properly address alternatives to incarceration. Now you are to make the changes, as outlined below, based upon today’s resources and prison systems.
Prisons are overloaded with inmates who are incarcerated for drug offenses. What is an alternative to incarcerating them? Describe how you would handle this type of problem without incarceration, and give reasons supporting why your solution would be more cost-effective and prone to rehabilitation. Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
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Most of the prisoners in jails are arrested for nonviolent offenses. The offenses are mostly drug-related. However, jail does not serve to reduce the criminal offenses. It also does not prevent rearrests after the initial release. In many cases, after inmates leave prisons, they return to their communities but their life is fraught with problems. Imprisonment has effects on individuals and research shows that incarceration harms an individual more. Examples of the negative effects on individuals may include emotional trauma……………………………..
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