Hampton Regional Jail/Virginia

It is generally understood that the United States is home to the highest prison populations in the industrialized world. In fact, an examination of official statistics reveals that at any given point in time there are approximately 1.5 million offenders imprisoned in U.S. state and federal correctional institutions with an additional 700,00 + in the custody of locally run jails. These high incarceration rates demonstrate both the importance and significance of the role of corrections within the criminal justice system specifically and society generally. The impact of legislative action and policy decisions along with institutional day-to-day decision making influences the manner in which the correction institution successfully (or unsuccessfully) punishes, supervises, rehabilitates, and hopefully reintegrates those accused and convicted of criminal offenses. For this assignment you will prepare a proposal for your case study research assignment that will examine and assess corrections institutions from two perspectives: effective and ineffective practices with an emphasis on contrast and comparison. Your case study should carefully compare and contrast institutional practices that have informed both effective and ineffective corrections’ practices and subsequent outcomes. Your ineffective analysis will examine the Hampton Regional Jail/Virginia in the context of worst practices incorporating course study material into your analysis. Your proposal will also identify a corrections institution of your choice for the purposes of examining best practices. (For example: Western Virginia Regional Jail). INSTRUCTIONS • Your case study proposal should be 1 to 2 pages in length. • Should clearly identify the best practices corrections institution chosen for assessment. • Should include integration of biblical principles while also identifying relevant Scripture. • Should list a minimum of 5 scholarly sources including a brief annotated bibliography for each source identified. o Acceptable/required sources: textbook, assigned readings, professional resources, scholarly articles published within the last 10 years. (special emphasis on discipline specific professional resources) Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.