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In 7 pages, the author discusses three significant challenges confronting corrections in the 21st century. "The criminal justice system is comprised of the police, the courts, and the department of corrections. The criminal justice system is a checks and balance system, in that each component defines the others. These components work independently and together in order to ensure that laws are kept, that people tried for crimes are given their Constitutional rights, and that those found guilty are either punished or rehabilitated or both. The field of corrections has three significant challenges facing it in the 21st century: prison overcrowding, limited funds, and protecting society from criminals by imprisonment and/or rehabilitation." Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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corrections. The criminal justice system is a checks and balance system, in that each component defines the others. These components work independently and together in order to ensure
that laws are kept, that people tried for crimes are given their Constitutional rights, and that those found guilty are either punished or rehabilitated or both. The field of
corrections has three significant challenges facing it in the 21st century: prison overcrowding, limited funds, and protecting society from criminals by imprisonment and/or rehabilitation. 1) A brief discussion
of why you have chosen the component for analysis. All three components of the criminal justice system are important. Without any one of
them, the system would no longer continue to function. Corrections, however, is the end zone of the system. As that, it is the place where criminals wind up.
The police arrest the criminals. The courts adjudicate the criminals. It is the corrections department that houses them, feeds them, punishes them, and attempts to rehabilitate them
before they are allowed back into society. 2) Why you feel the challenges are important. The three major challenges that are
confronting corrections in the 21st century are prison overcrowding, limited funds, and protecting society from criminals by imprisonment and/or rehabilitation. These concerns are vital for corrections. When prisons
are overcrowded, many prisoners are released early. Some that would not have ordinarily been released are released. Plea bargains give criminals lesser sentences. Additional prisons must be
built in order to house the exorbitant number of prisoners. This falls under both the overcrowding problem, and the lack of money problem. The third challenge is also
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