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    Prison Reform - Case Study

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    In this 5 page case study, prison inmates are demanding adequate health care and isolation of HIV-positive inmates. The task is to use certain organizational development theories in devising a plan to address the issues. A study certified substandard quality in terms of healath care. The essay comments on the reason inmates want HIV-positive inmates isolated but this action has just been found unlawful in another state. The writer uses Maslow's hierarchy to explain the inmates' demands. A plan is provided. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

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    is inadequate, specifically, health care was described as being of substandard quality. Numerous theorists within the fields of organizational development and organizational psychology have addressed motivation in terms of what  people will work for. The most frequently cited theorist and the one that is specific to this case is Maslows hierarchy. Maslow offered a theory of motivation that has two  major categories: deficiency needs and growth needs (Huitt, 2004). Deficiency needs are those things the individual needs to survive (Huitt, 2004). These are basic survival needs (Huitt, 2004). Once these  needs are satisfied an individual becomes interested in growth (Huitt, 2004). Maslow presented his theory in the form of a pyramid to demonstrate that each need is progressive from the  last and the greatest drive or motivation occurs when a person needs the basics of survival like air, water and food (Huitt, 2004). The bottom of the pyramid reflects the  physiological needs of hunger, thirst, bodily comforts, etc. (Huitt, 2004). After these needs are met, the individual become driven by the need for security, to be safe from danger (Huitt,  2004). (Huitt, 2004). The needs continue up through the need for belongingness and the need for esteem, (Huitt, 2004). These are the deficiency needs. The prisoners demand for better health  care is a basic survival need. Without adequate health care, they could and sometimes do die. There is empirical evidence that the health care at this prison is substandard. That  rating would suggest prisons are not receiving life-saving medical attention when it is needed. The demand for isolation from HIV-positive inmates demonstrates the second level of Maslows hierarchy - the  need for security, the need to be free from danger. Prison is not exactly the safest place in the world to live. It is filled with dangers. The inmates in 

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