Students will submit a 7-page research paper on a topic discussed in class or relating to corrections and the prison system. Topics include but are not limited to:
- Educational programs in correctional facilities
- Privatization of prisons
- Correctional personnel and consensual sex
- Correctional personnel and sexual assault
- Mental health care and services for inmates
- Drug and alcohol use in prisons
- Native Americans and incarceration
- Prison safety
- Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
- Prison overcrowding
- Inmate adjustment programs
- Female inmates on death row