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Introduction4

Discussion4

Rehabilitation after Imprisonment5

Medical and Mental Health Care7

Work7

Educational Programming8

Substance Abuse Programming8

Negative Impacts of Prison Rehabilitation8

Conclusion10

References11

Persuasive Argumentation

Introduction

Prison Rehabilitation can be defined as the programs and projects that work towards the improvement of the conditions in a prison and create a penalty system that proves to be more efficient for the society as a whole. It is seen that, in a prison, a person experiences the economic and social effects of imprisonment that leads them to recidivism. The purpose of the prison rehabilitation is to provide rehabilitation to the prisoners that would prevent them from repeating the same crime or getting re-engaged in other criminal activities after completing their sentence in prison.

Discussion

The prison rehabilitation is primarily targeted towards inmates who would be released from the prison one day. There are also programs for the inmates, who are sentence for life and will never become part of the society again, there is rehabilitation for these inmates that make sure that they are given the basic rights and are also treated in an altruistic manner. There are programs for the inmates who are not so violent, they may involve in the rehabilitation program facility that provide them with different types of therapies, assistance and training (Lin, 2000).

Rehabilitation after Imprisonment

Despite the centrality, inmate programming to the fate of prison rehabilitation, the trends of rehabilitation for inmates has not been documented over time. In large part, this omission is due to the fact that research efforts are focused elsewhere, for example, on the framing of inmate programs by prison administrators and the relationships between staff and inmates (Cummings, 1994).

The efficacy of coalition building on influencing public policy is contingent on the existence of a set of actors who share a similar vision and possess the resources that are necessary to contribute to the coalition's agenda. For prison rehabilitation issues, this issue is especially challenging. As discussed earlier, classic prison rehabilitation groups lack the political capital to promote legislative action. In addition, attracting capital rich advocacy groups are willing to undertake the issue of prison rehabilitation is an arduous task. Thus, the question becomes, “Where can advocates turn to build a coalition capable of advancing prison rehabilitation issues onto the legislative landscape?” For PREA, the answer came from a source that has historically championed prison rehabilitation and at modern times has emerged as an entity with tremendous political clout evangelicals (Currie, 1998).

In the United States, the earliest efforts to improve prison conditions can be traced to the formation of the well known Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons in 1787, an influential Quaker organization committed to the humane treatment of criminal offenders. Efforts to rehabilitation America's prisons in the 1800s were part of a broader social rehabilitation movement that encompassed issues such as abolition, temperance, and women's suffrage. The capacity of evangelicals in moving their agenda forward during this time period can be attributed to a variety of factors. Membership in protestant-based religious organizations grew exponentially ...