Boot_Camps

Boot Camps Thesis: Boot camp is a short institutional sentence designed to improve offenders self esteem and discipline. Since their inception, boot camps have been used as an alternative sanction to reduce prison populations. They are also designed to reduce recidivism and rising prison costs. In boot camps, offenders are subjected to military style training for a period of six months or more. The daily routine is very demanding and includes running, drills, marches, and manual labor. The hopeful outcome will be an offender who has learned a valuable lesson in self-discipline and a respect for authority. I. Introduction A. Origins of boot camps B. Purpose of boot camps C. Goals of boot camps I. Juvenile boot camps A. Florida’s model B. North Carolina’s model III. Women’s boot camp A. Overview B. New York’s model I. Male boot camp A. Louisiana’s model B. New York’s model V. Conclusion  Boot camp is a short institutional sentence designed to improve offender’s self esteem and discipline. Since there inception, boot camps have been used as an alternative sanction to reduce prison populations (Wells, 142). They are also designed to reduce recidivism and rising prison operating costs. In their original form, correctional boot camps are in prison programs that imitate the structure and boot, program, camps, programs, juvenile, prison, camp, inmates, offenders, dale, women, new, education, rate, phase, must, training, successful, goals, model, kennedy, time, reduce, physical, 16, wells, treatment, shock, same, recidivism, one, nick, months, each, correctional, abuse