Essay On Readmissions

The amount of mass incarceration in the United States as reached an all time high over the years. Mass Incarceration is the incarceration of a person or race based off of them being different and can be identified as a trend among law enforcements.These tensions have reached a certain extent and has received the attention of American citizens and the nation’s government. The laws of the United States seems fair, however with the enforcement of these laws, specific groups are targeted and abused by them daily.

Researchers and activists alike are concerned about the rate at which individuals with mental illness are incarcerated in the United States. Many consider that the increase in incarceration is a direct result of deinstitutionalization. In this essay, I will discuss how the solutions to the prevention of the incarceration of the mentally ill but ultimately lead to the common goal of improving the care of the mentally ill. This will be done by comparing and contrasting the key points of Knoll, Etter et al and Kincaid. The points discussed will be their views on the cause of mass incarceration, the way in which they approach solutions to the problem and the suggested role of law enforcement officers in this solution.

It is very appalling to hear how the health care system of this our great county has mistreated its military veterans. These men and women have given up everything to defend the rights, freedoms, and liberties of American citizens. As American citizens we owe our military veterans a huge debt of gratitude for their exemplary service on behalf of our nation, but instead the Department of Veterans Affairs has treated these brave and selfless men and women with dishonor and disrespect.

Incarceration rates have skyrocketed over the last forty years-- which could be interpreted as good or bad. There have been many questions surrounding incarceration directly being linked to a drop in crime rate: both positive and negative. One pair of economical authors, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, approached this concept from a mostly-positive outlook: the high incarceration rate was responsible for one-third of the crime drop in the 1990’s (123-124). The authors use high incarceration rate along with innovative police strategies, plummet of the crack market, and aging in the population to make a base argument of reasons for crime drop; however, the main argument they utilize is the legalization of abortions (Levitt and Dubner 120-121,

Despite the fact that all residential schools have closed, what thousands of aboriginal children experienced remain both terrifying to those who hear the stories and relevant to Canadian society. Glen and Lyna are two residential school survivors whose lives were greatly impacted by the government’s attempt to eliminate aboriginal culture. For example, “the system forcibly separated children from their families and “even siblings rarely interacted.” Consequently, the family ties between Glen and his family severely weakened through his years in residential school, making it difficult for him to find comfort in family even when he started his own. As a result, when Glen struggles with alcoholism, instead of confiding in family, he is driven

Federal Detainees are in the custody, or jurisdiction, of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the United States Marshals Service (USMS) and these people are different than prisoners because these detainees are waiting for their case to be taken to court to decide their fate (Mason, “Dollars and Detainees”). Immigrations and Customs Enforcement was created to replace the United States Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service following the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001. ICE is the part of the Department of Homeland SEcurity that does investigations. The detainees that ICE will hold include people who “(1) violate administrative laws by being in the U.S. without proper documentation; (2) overstay their visas;

America has the highest incarceration rate in the world, outstripping Cuba, Rwanda, Thailand, Costa Rica and Ukraine. The United States is the world’s leader incarceration. There are currently five-thousand prison facility, which in habit over 2 million prisoner. There has been a 500% increase over the past thirty years. These numbers include, federal and state prison, and local jails. . For decades the United States had a pretty stable prison population, but that changed in the 1970's from the rising concerns over crack cocaine and other drugs, resulting in huge increases in drug penalties; a move to mandatory minimum sentences; and the implementation of other tough-on-crime policies, such as "three-strikes" laws and policies to ensure prisoners served at least 85 percent of their sentences. These harsher sentencing law coupled with dramatic increase and drug penalties in the fear of crime, of and wanting to keep these menace to society in prison forever. Added up to a state and federal prison population of 1.5 million, up from 200,000 in 1973. These are some of the factors that lead up to mass

The population of the federal prison system has increased over 500 percent in the last thirty years. 2.2 million people are currently incarcerated throughout the nation. The cause of the growth of this population is the increase in African American and Hispanic imprisonment.

School-reentry is a major issue for children who have been hospitalized for an extended period of time or who have had intensive medical treatments, such as patients in a major pediatric cancer treatment center. A hospital-school transition program for children being discharged from the hospital is beneficial for both patients/families and the school systems.

It is so easy for minorities to take on the stance of a victim, it is equally as easy for them to take on the stance of the aggressor. With everything going on in this Country, and in the World today, it isn't hard to understand the reasoning behind some of the situations that have been going on. Cops are getting away with Murder, Literally, and the war on poverty is seeming to turn into something like a war on the poor people themselves. Mass Incarceration is becoming so frequent that people seem to graze over the realities that are plaguing our very existence.

Hospital readmissions are a prominent healthcare issue today. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are experiencing financial losses in the billions in regards to this patient population. Within the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Section 3025 passed the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. This program identifies hospitals with large-scale readmission rates for patients within thirty days of discharge related to congestive heart failure, heart attack, and pneumonia, and marked them liable for the penalties of the program. This program presents notable reimbursement cuts for

To ensure the safety of citizens, law enforcements all around the world use different techniques and methods to isolate the wrongdoers from the general public. America boasts technology, and Sweden takes pride in its low recidivism and crime rates. Sweden’s prison system is one of the world’s best, with the number of Swedish prisoners dropping from 5,722 to 4,500 out of a population of 9.5 million. The country has closed a number of prisons, and the recidivism rate is around 40%, which is significantly less than in the U.S. and most European countries. By furthermore improving America’s and Sweden’s prisons, it can greatly improve the prison system, lessen incarceration rates, and significantly reduce recidivism rates. Though the differences are obvious, the two countries’ excel at their own unique way of maintaining their prisoners. America boasts as the second most technologically advanced country, and by merging the two countries’ strengths, essentially one can create a powerful, secure, and effective prison system.

The disabled prisoner is considered the least taken cared for because no “special” rights were issued to them. Think about it a prisoner with no legs or no arms and they need assistance but the correction officer opens the cell doors he does not care at all. So around forty years ago president jimmy carter signed a document that stated “The Rehabilitation Act was created to apply to federal executive agencies “so in sort term that meant that disabled prisoners will receive care for all of those years with the disability. And now some but not “all” prisons give the prisoners assistance or give them prosthetics every day inmates who have this tragic disability are routinely denied their aid on a daily basis. Which makes that a nightmarish survival

The prenatal diagnostics and prenatal screening being routine procedures should be considered as advantage of modern medicine. It helps to reveal wide spectrum of fetus abnormal conditions, but not only congenital defects and malformations. Early detection of many of them could help to perform surgical correction and necessary management as soon as possible in order to save newborns’ lives. On the other hand, this method is widely discussed and it has many opponents, and in some countries prenatal diagnostic procedures is not considered now as a screening method. Main ethical issues are terminations of pregnancies in case of malformations, which may be supposed as eugenical abortion, inform consent and problem of decision-making process. This problem is closely related to moral status of fetus, ethical issue about the value of life and problem of what kind of condition should be tested for.