Milwaukee County House of Corrections

As Dubik-Unruh (1999) noted, despite the fact that there is an increase of HIV and other infectious diseases in prisons, and that the population is a mix of infected and high-risk individuals in crowded living conditions, nationally funding for prevention and education programs has actually been reduced or eliminated.

For Dubik-Unruh (1999), one answer is to use nurses' knowledge and access to the prison population to influence prison policy toward the development and implementation of more educational and prevention programs for both prisoners and staff. She noted that nurses can serve as advocates for prisoners, since they are more likely to gain the trust of the prisoners than corrections staff and also likely to retain the trust of prison officials, because of their education and status.

Her recommendation was the development of inmate peer educat

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and is sufficiently popular to be the second choice of citizens for Best County Official (Local heroes, 1999). Not all trends tend toward warehousing prisoners, however, although the funding seems to be more readily available for that option. For example, criminal justice officials and judges supported the development of an alternative pilot project directing nonviolent offenders into a program of training and rehabilitation, rather than warehousing in jail cells. This pilot project, termed the Benedict Center, is a day reporting center designed to deal with the issues that often bring people into the criminal justice system, like drug and alcohol abuse. The effort was supported by the Sheriff, House of Corrections Superintendent, County Supervisor, Chief Judge, and Deputy District Attorney (Morgan, 1998). However, more funding was available for the jail expansion which proceeded to add the additional 1,000 beds. Economics In the meantime, the business community actually expressed some concern about the government's get-tough stance and increasing criminal justice load. Businesses in Milwaukee County were having difficulty filling their jobs and were expressing concern about the amount of money being poured into crimina
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