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'Decarceration' Proposals by Prison Activists

embracing an "enlightened, free society" (2000, p.212). It does seem somewhat archaic to simply round up and keep people behind ba...

Prison Privatization

run by private enterprise and is not in direct control of the government. In many domains, private companies have taken advantage ...

An Overview and History of the Penitentiary at Alcatraz

venues, inclusive of Alcatraz in San Franciso Bay, California (86). The design of such facilities radically altered the advent of...

Economics of Crime Problems and Solutions

because of their greater medical needs (Himelstein, 1993). A survey by the Rand Corporation found that longer jail terms cannot e...

Nonviolent Drug Offenders and Incarceration

(32%)" (Anonymous Drug War Facts: Prisoners, 2002; prison.htm). Another study indicates that, "As a result of increased prosecutio...

Criminal Justice System and the Importance of Societal Understanding

give a greater equality to those who do not have the political or economic power (Reiman, 2000). The role if position is im...

Drug Offenders and Modern Day Prisons

incarcerated for a drug offense accounted for the largest percentage of the total growth (59%), followed by public-order offenders...

Truth in Poetry

truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...

Economic and Social Benefits of Marijuana Legalization

to make changes to the society. this becomes more evident when we note that "While the number of offenders in each major offense c...

'Cruel and Unusual Punishment' and the 8th Amendment

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...

Prisons Should be Privatized

controlled by government. Questions in respect to government involvement and authority loom large. However, questions are even mo...

State of California and the Problem of Prison Overcrowding throughout the United States

p. 3569). Privately subsidized prisons have become a popular consideration as a means by which to offset the exorbitant amo...

Three Strikes Law in California

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

HIV Positive Assessment Findings Summarized

can symbolize aspects of society that a community would just as soon forget, such as prison inmates. When social ills as poverty,...

America's 'Super Maximum' Prison Security

held in similar conditions of extreme confinement" (pp. 26). Abramsky details those numbers further by adding that, as of 2000, Te...

Social Control Problems

three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed into the cultures mainstream. They manipulate this so that the...

Prison Privatization Argument

Seligman states that, "Perhaps 20,000 prisoners a year are getting out under early release programs....The criminal justice system...

Outline of Management Values

front-line jobs entail in todays environment. D. Shared visions of the future 1. Managers are not currently "selling" new versions...

Electronic Monitoring Devices/Parolees and Prisoners

in prison (Biniok, 2004). They contend that the costs of electronic supervision are unacceptable, even that such supervision viol...

The War on Drugs in Arizona

per year, while public safety is not enhanced ("Mandatory," 2002). Non-violent offenders in Arizonas prisons comprise half of the ...

Marxist Views on Continued Existence of the Prison System

the long haul. And while there is one way of viewing prisons, at least by the majority, there is another way of looking at it. The...

Films Yol and Raise the Red Lantern Uses of Prison Metaphors

of Yol. This story, instead of focusing on four wives as in the Zhang film, focuses on the choices that will be made by four commo...

California's Young White Males

one more campus for the University of California system (Malveaux, 2001,p.32). The prison building has disturbed the sensibilitie...

Probation Service and Ethics

absolute, or to take the view that killing an enemy to defend ones country is not "covered" by the ethical imperative....

Prearrest and Program of Diversion

solve the problem of offenders like Jack, saying the country is still in the throes of determining the best methods for "dealing w...

Society, Crime, and the Assistance Offered by Prerelease Programs

to become productive citizens upon their ultimate release back into society. Advocates of these programs have long argued how the...

Justice and Ethics V

Theories of punishment indicate that the above is an invalid association. Certainly murder is serious, but it also - by definitio...

California Correctional Peace Officers Association

terms and conditions of employment, including representation of CCPOA in arbitration disputes arising from the collective bargaini...

Overview of Prison Violence

in the prisons is blindly accepted. Clark (2003) states that "Prison administrators and guards have witnessed the violence--or at ...

Overview of Incarceration

to incarceration, and how effective those are as well. But before we begin, there are a few things we need to address...