CRM 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Substance Abuse, International Classification Of Health Interventions, Sex Offender
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Prison has always shone a spotlight on the problems and inequalities of the larger society. Office of the correctional investigator, 2014-2015 annual report. Power relation; prisoners face abuse, hierarchy of groups. Over the past decade, safe custody indicators have deteriorated. The number of use of force incidents have almost doubled, admissions to administrative segregation increased by 15. 5%, incidents of prison self-injury have tripled, prison crowding hit all-time highs and parole grant rates bottomed out. The average cost of keeping a federal male inmate behind bars is ,376 per year and nearly twice that amount to keep a woman inmate locked up. By contrast, safely maintaining an offender in the community is 70% less. Amendments to the corrections and conditional release act now make it clear that the sentence is to be managed according to the nature and gravity of the offence and the.
