Assignment 2: Improving
Corrections Facilities
Due Week 5 and worth 150 points
Go to the Department of Corrections’ Website for
your state, and research two (2) of your state’s correctional facilities. Next,
use the Internet and Strayer Library to research the budgetary constraints that
correctional officials must adhere to in order to operate correctional
facilities.
Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which
you:
1. Determine whether diversion programs are only beneficial to offenders
charged with misdemeanors and non-violent felonies or whether they are also
beneficial to offenders charged with felonies and violent crimes. Recommend
whether or not the two (2) correctional facilities that you researched would
benefit from diversion programs. Provide a rationale for your response.
2. Take a position as to whether or not privatized correctional facilities are
better alternatives to public correctional facilities. Support your position
with one (1) successful example what you believe to be the better alternative.
3. Examine the budgetary constraints that correctional officials work with as
they operate correctional facilities. Determine the major trade-offs made
between the policy for proper funding and the practice of proper funding to
prevent recidivism. Provide a rationale for your response.
4. Use at least four (4) peer-reviewed sources.Note: Wikipedia
and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting
requirements:
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Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font
(size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must
follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any
additional instructions.
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Include a cover page containing the title of the
assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the
date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required
assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated
with this assignment are:
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Recommend improvements to selected areas of
corrections.
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Analyze various issues in corrections, including
effective community corrections programs, probation and parole, and reentry
strategies.
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Analyze the operational components of prisons,
jails, and alternative correctional placements.
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Propose specific components of an institutional
facility model based on effective management policies and procedures for a
specified group of inmates.
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Use technology and information resources to
research issues in correctional facility policies.
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Write clearly and concisely about correctional
facility policies using proper writing mechanics.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer
quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills,
using the following rubricfound here.
