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A US Prison Reform History

"prisons" from where people never emerged; the most famous being the Bastille of Paris, France, scene of the French Revolution. Th...

Prison Violence

home (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2001). Those who live in poverty have always been the victims of the most violenc...

Overcrowding, A Principal Prison System Challenge

This research paper offers an overview of literature relating to overcrowding in the US prison system. The topics covered include ...

The Importance of Prison Reform

Indeed, the law is not perfect, which is why the average citizen should care about the prison system. Even if they do not break th...

Overview of Reforming Campaign Financing

In five pages the history of U.S. campaign finance reform is examined in terms of contributor limitations now being set at $1,000 ...

Voices from the Cell Block

the federal courts to mandate minimum rights for prisoners" (Platt, 1999, p. 237). But by the 1990s, prison reform had died out a...

English and U.S. Prisons

Sasse, 2007). Type of system/Management: One of the most important differences between the two countries, and once which has a di...

Penal Injustices and Morality Theory

This paper contends the US prison system is a moral hubris and deserved of significant ethical reform. There are three sources in...

Overcrowding in German Prisons

one third during this period ("Where is"). While this increase differed in severity between German states, all states experienced ...

Lies My Teacher Told Me by Loewen and A People's History of the US by Zinn

by such elements as patriotism and mindless optimism rather than a desire to set out the facts and analyse them with any degree of...

Prison Overcrowding

judges who rule that jails are overcrowded create a situation there the county or jurisdiction must act quickly. Overcrowding is q...

Recidivism and Prisons

prisoners at Guantanamo is allowed to sit outside in the sun and interact with other prisoners through a chain-link fence for four...

US Reasons for Entering Word War I

were formed as a direct result of Nationalism. Tensions in Germany in particular before the outbreak of war were phenomenal (Arth...

Reconstruction Period and Social Welfare

total disregard toward the Southern people and their hardships as a result of the war"(Jennings, 2002). In such an atmosphere, it ...

The UK and Civil Service Reform

This research report looks at reform in the United Kingdom and the history of civil service is discussed. Reform is the focus of a...

Two Parties, PACs and Campaign Finance Reform

In a research paper consisting of twenty pages campaign finance reform is broken down into party categories of Republican and Demo...

Past, Present, and Future of Bail Reform

In a paper consisting of six pages bail reform is examined in terms of history, a trend from liberalism to conservatism, pretrial ...

Criminal Justice V

offender and his history at the time of his arrest. Protection of society. This goal of sentencing is to remove the offend...

HIV in the California Prison System

economic and historical issues surrounding the problem of HIV in prison. Perhaps one place to start is to look at the overall pro...

Reforming Health Care

the fact that Americans demand extraordinary health care but refuse to pay for it; that medical science is now able to extend life...

Integrating Information about Violence in Prisons

2009). During this incident, 32 inmates and 11 guards were killed. In 1980 there was a riot in a prison in New Mexico that took ...

Prison Overcrowding, as a Flaw in Criminal Justice

This paper focuses on prison overcrowding as an ethical issue that affects the American criminal justice system Three pages in len...

Overcrowding of Prisons

Building the new prison was supposed "expunge a stigma" from the state, and "Maine officials expected the savings in operating exp...

Challenges for the Criminal Justice Administrator

executive officer (CEO) of a small corporation (Dennis, 1999). For example, a "typical medium security prison houses 1,300 inmates...

Austin H. MacCormack and Thomast Mott Osborne

hesitate to say what he believed and never compromised" (Thomas Mott Osbornes Within Prison Walls). In 1913, Osborne "was appoi...

Case Study on Prison Reform

care is a basic survival need. Without adequate health care, they could and sometimes do die. There is empirical evidence that the...

Different Perspectives on the Prison System

prisoners when they went into the courtroom resulting in the death of the judge, the main perpetrator and others (CACC Newsletter,...

Reform and Prisons

This paper consists of six pages and considers the lack of success with reforming the prison system in a consideration of perpetua...

Prison Issues as They Pertain to Female Prisoners

This research paper consists of six pages and considers abuses in the prison system with regards to women's treatment with such is...

Prison Reform and the Confusion of Conflicting Laws

In five pages the ways in which conflicting laws contribute to confusion regarding prison reform are examined within the context o...