YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :History of the Famous Prison of Alcatraz
Essays 211 - 240
headline: "High-Risk Sex Offenders Identified: Post Reporter, 2 Ridge Residents on List" (Sheppard, 1997, p. 37). On July 7, Mei...
prison although no threats have been made on her life. In other celebrity cases, Texas saw singer David Crosby of Crosby, Stills,...
of homosexual behaviour in male prisons is not something which necessarily reflects the sexual orientation of the participants in ...
What could possibly be good about stress? It is a natural motivator as well as a barometer of life. If an individual lives each ...
"California Governor Pete Wilson proposed adding 2,900 correctional employees to the California Department of Corrections -- more ...
(ABC News, 2002). The national average daily cost of care, per prisoner, is $58.00 (Prewitt, 2002). The basic assumption behind ...
becomes the victim. By restricting the options and freedoms of the individual, control is thought to be maintained. The student ...
one more campus for the University of California system (Malveaux, 2001,p.32). The prison building has disturbed the sensibilitie...
fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...
embracing an "enlightened, free society" (2000, p.212). It does seem somewhat archaic to simply round up and keep people behind ba...
punishment.iv It was a close vote of 4 to 3, which means that not all justices on that court believed electrocution to be cruel an...
controlled by government. Questions in respect to government involvement and authority loom large. However, questions are even mo...
p. 3569). Privately subsidized prisons have become a popular consideration as a means by which to offset the exorbitant amo...
treatment of prisoners at that particular time. As well as our usual prisoner survey, we also carried out structured interviews w...
three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed into the cultures mainstream. They manipulate this so that the...
Seligman states that, "Perhaps 20,000 prisoners a year are getting out under early release programs....The criminal justice system...
held in similar conditions of extreme confinement" (pp. 26). Abramsky details those numbers further by adding that, as of 2000, Te...
because of their greater medical needs (Himelstein, 1993). A survey by the Rand Corporation found that longer jail terms cannot e...
run by private enterprise and is not in direct control of the government. In many domains, private companies have taken advantage ...
(32%)" (Anonymous Drug War Facts: Prisoners, 2002; prison.htm). Another study indicates that, "As a result of increased prosecutio...
population. The figure had been in line with a previous literature review which suggested that about 6 to 15% (1999, p.210) of peo...
incarcerated for a drug offense accounted for the largest percentage of the total growth (59%), followed by public-order offenders...
of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...
can symbolize aspects of society that a community would just as soon forget, such as prison inmates. When social ills as poverty,...
truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...
to make changes to the society. this becomes more evident when we note that "While the number of offenders in each major offense c...
give a greater equality to those who do not have the political or economic power (Reiman, 2000). The role if position is im...
brings up the question as to "What kind of society could justify locking up so many of its young men," who are the principle demo...
in the abuse at Abu Ghraib. Although attempts have been made to blame this abuse on "low-level personnel" at the facility rather ...
executed in the United States in 1995, the most since 1957. With more than 3000 inmates on death row nationwide -- more than any t...