Monday, December 1, 2008

Prepare For Boot Camp

Boot camps are private or government-owned correctional facilities where people are sent in the hope that they will mend their erroneous ways.A boot camp is designed with the basic concept of military training camps, with a lot of emphasis on physical labor. The concept of guilt is maximized with psychological tools such as humiliation, degrading rhetoric and building a fear for authority.Boots camps were first introduced in the states of Georgia and Oklahoma and have become an enduring feature of United States justice. In the United States, depending on the court sentence, even a sentence of ten years can be exchanged for three months in a boot camp. Moreover, once juveniles have been sentenced with a term in a boot camp, their only way out of it is to go to jail. In recent years, boot camps have evolved and now most provide educational and recreational facilities along with vocational training and counseling. Special arrangements are also made for the rehabilitation of substance abusers.

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