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It's a cold world . A person's rights are violated every second of
everyday. That person wants to see that justice is done! In corrections
the 'Justice Model' is a better system of justice then the 'Medical Model'.
Unlike the 'Medical Model' the 'Justice Model' holds a person accountable
for his/her actions, does not force rehabilitation, and provides fair and
just sentencing guidelines.
In life a person has to chose between right and wrong. The philosophy of
the 'Justice Model' is that when a person makes the decision to violate a
person's rights he/she made this decision of his/her own free will and is
held accountable for that action. In the 'Medical Model' when a person
makes the same decision, it is believed that there are forces beyond that
person's control that caused him/her to make the decision. For example, in
the United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, an inmate brutally stabbed a
correctional officer to death with a homemade knife. This inmate is not
allowed to possess or manufacture such weapons and has no need for such a
weapon. Under the 'Justice Model' this inmate is held accountable for the
life that he had just taken by receiving the death penalty, but the '
Medical Model' would have sentenced this inmate to a number of
rehabilitation programs believing that this decision to take human life was
caused by the environment that the inmate lived in.

Unlike the 'Medical Model' the 'Justice Model'' will not sentence a person
to rehabilitation, but it will provide rehabilitation programs and certain
incentives to participate in them. The belief of the 'Justice Model' is
that a person cannot be forced to rehabilitate his/her self. Statistics
have proven that if people are forced into rehabilitation they will do what
is necessary to get through ...