Conflict Resolution

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This paper examines and analyzes the situation in the prison system and the tensions created in such a system. It then applies a conflict resolution approach to addressing some of the problems in the criminal justice system and to deciding between alternatives offered for different criminal justice processes.

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"Officials in many jurisdictions have seen that even if harsher sentences are popular, they may be impossible to implement. Alternative sentencing has been suggested, explored, and implemented. Alternative sentencing is seen as a better approach than simply releasing large numbers of prisoners in order to make room for more. As more and more jurisdictions have released increasing numbers of minor offenders, effective probation-supervision methods have been needed. By the end of the 1980s some 45 jurisdictions had implemented intensive probation-supervision programs as alternatives to incarceration. Such programs usually included restitution and work assignments, curfews, and blood and urine testing for controlled substances and alcohol. Another program with a similar purpose is called split sentencing which combines probation and confinement in community corrections programs, with brief periods of regular imprisonment to emphasize the lesson (Sullivan 130-131)."

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