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So the families or the victim and the "killers" family go watch?

They usualy have a couple witnesses to it as well as direct family members of the victim if they request to be there,

In some countries there is different law about drunkenness.In Turkey if you don’t do anything wrong after you drink; police can’t take you to jail,but sometimes religious cops will take you to jail.One night it happened to me and I resisted them and they attacked me with their billies.

I’d be grateful that I’ll be returning home when I’ve sobered up instead of being jailed for decades like in some other countries.

Depends… where is the inmate? County jail, state prison? What state? Try doing a Yahoo or Google search for "[your state] inmate information" and see what happens. Many county jails or sheriff’s depts have inmate information available online, just gotta search.

My best friend might be going away to a correctional facility and is on methadone treatment and has came a very long way in her recovery. I heard it’s the law but they don’t do it anyway. I am scared my bff will have severe withdrawls and maybe go back to using. I will state I live in New Hampshire because laws vary from state to state. If anyone has info that would be so appreciated. Even advice. Thanks!

"" * In New Hampshire, a judge ordered the County jail to allow an inmate to continue MMT during his 270-day sentence. However, the State Supreme Court overturned that order, claiming it was too costly for the jail to transport the prisoner for methadone treatment.
Therefore, with relatively few exceptions, it appears that DTCs do not welcome the participation of MMT programs. There is untapped potential, but also an ongoing need for the education of court personnel by MMT programs. ""

It seems only a few to no places support Methadone Treatment, your friend better make sure she brings up the MMT problem before she gets sent there. The probability she will may increase, since it’s a correctional facility, and depending on how close to a recovery clinic it may be.

I wonder why they call a county jail, or a state prison "Dept. of Corrections ? They used to be called so and so county jail, or so and so state prison, or bureau of prisons or penitentiary. But now everything is corrections this, or corrections that. A county jail corrects nothing, it’s usually just a holding facility for those that haven’t gone to any kind of trial yet, and can’t make bail, or they’re in there for some short sentence for some piddly offense. The state prison doesn’t actually correct anything either, as all it does is hold people for a much longer period of time, as a punishment for a more substantial offense. Do they use the word corrections, to just try to clean it up and make it sound better ? Why not just call it what it is ? Anybody have an opinion ? I’m looking for serious answers here, not wisecracks from the teenagers. Thanks.

Pretrial jails are most often termed detention centers or jails; state prisons are generally termed penitentiaries, prisons or correctional centers.

The stated goals of most people working in the prison business are rehabilitation (correcting bad behavior), incapacitation (keeping them from harming society for the duration of the sentence), retribution (punishment or vengeance), restitution (making them pay victims or work off their debt to society) and deterrence (scaring people so that they will avoid criminal activity because they do not want to go to jail).

The single best sounding goal from a political stand point is rehabilitation, so they go with the somewhat deceptive title of corrections.

Nobody took the old phrase penitentiary serious because the only thing that people in prison regret is that they got caught. They are no longer dwelling upon the error of their ways in silence as was once required in the dungeon days. It is hard to get community approval to build a prisoner in their neighborhood.

There is also the old theory of labeling which was taught years ago that you were not supposed to give them the bad self image, so the terms of convict or prison were avoided. Pretty silly, but true.

The prison personnel generally try to come up with plans to give the inmates some career options because they want to believe that redemption is a possibility, but the odds are not good at all.

On the other hand, can we as a society abandon any hope of redemption of some of these people? Also, there are still some prison industries which do make money and teach skills. I know of products being made for government use and also that call operator systems work from jails. These permit inmates to make money; learn skills and they can make restitution payments on schedule.

I am not blind — I have done a lot of work in this area, but surely, we must make some effort to provide some training, education and skills beyond the criminal skills that they develop while trading notes in the jails. If they are disposable, why are we keeping them alive? If they are worth feeding, are they not worth spending some effort to educate and train?

Think about this as the designer of an ethical society? In that light, what options do we really have?

Not knowing your state, I will add some program resources from the federal side…

It is something were you look up the people who are in jail and see their date of birth tatoos and what they did to be in there and when do they get out and it also show a picture of them.

http://www.idoc.state.il.us/subsections/search/default.asp

That beautiful man would be Sgt. Samuel Provance

May 21 — A witness who told ABCNEWS he believed the military was covering up the extent of abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison was today stripped of his security clearance and told he may face prosecution because his comments were "not in the national interest."

Sgt. Samuel Provance said in addition to his revoked security clearance, he was transferred to a different platoon, and his record was officially "flagged," meaning he cannot be promoted or given any awards or honors.

Military intelligence analyst Sgt. Samuel Provance told ABCNEWS the sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib began as a technique ordered by military intelligence interrogators.
ABCNEWS.com

Provance said he was told he will face administrative action for failing to report what he knew at the time and for failing to take steps to stop the abuse.

"I see it as an effort to intimidate Sgt. Provance and any other soldier whose conscience is bothering him, and who wants to come forward and tell what really happened at Abu Ghraib," said his attorney Scott Horton.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0522-06.htm

http://au.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=abu+ghraib+prison&sp=1&fr2=sp-top&ei=UTF-8&fr=slv1-msgr&ei=UTF-8&SpellState=n-3334952667_q-QqvF.fkRtk2fKk/BRYxyZAAAAA@@

I’m doing my own research…I’m shifting gears in my career and seriously considering returning to the Juvenile Justice System…just wondering what others would have to say about this question.

All opinions are welcome.

This age old question applies to all delinquents–young or old. Does incarceration reduce crime?
However, to answer your question, perhaps you should take a look at Bill Sanders’ book entitled "Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City". He’s a Sociologist who primarily focuses on street ethnography.
My opinion is that the only way to reduce juvenile crime is to fix the "broken windows" within society. This is a multi-tiered approach that focuses on the community as it relates to the youth.
I took a course in Criminology during my Grad school experience and I’d be glad to enlighten you on some theories. Jeff Ferrell, a Cultural Criminologist {an emerging theory within the sociological discipline} looked at juvenile delinquency in regards to the construction of crime and crime control issues. I have his article saved if you’d like to see it. Just send me an email, and I’ll forward it to you.

I heard the upon release an inmate can be immedialtly entitled to money to help with clothes and money for a car to get back and forth to work. Then they said that the social security office will give checks because inmates are considered disabled for the time being. And also they had a paper that said where to go and who to see. Does anyone know where this web site is. Where can I get this information. My husband is due to be released on parole June 5. I need help now so I can give the info to him. Thank you.

He should check with the prison officials. If this is true, they will arrange it.

I don’t understand what this does. Were closing a controversial prison and moving the remaining inmates that we haven’t already released back to their terrorists organizations, to another soon to be controversial prison. Why do we need to move them? and why does it have to be outside the US?

We can’t have the prison on US soil, because we have a charter of rights and freedoms that conflicts with torturing PoWs.

We’re trying to reestablish trading with Cuba (since we didn’t have a valid reason to embargo them to begin with) and moving Guantanamo is part of the negotiation.