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The Commandant of the Andersonville Confederate Prison Camp Henry Wirz

Henry Wirz, an American Civil War criminal, is evaluated as to the truth of his criminality. Was he a scapegoat? Many details are ...

You Got Nothing Coming Notes From a Prison Fish by Jimmy A. Lerner

page and refuses to let go even after the final word has been digested. His writing talent far surpasses what one might readily e...

Twelve Step Prison Program in California

In five pages California's state addiction treatment program is examined with the overall plan included but concentrates on the tw...

Prisons and Women

placed in prison primarily for economic crimes (Anonymous, 2002). These crimes can include check forgery and illegal credit card u...

Prison Guard and How Respect is Earned

Sing Sing as a newjack."1 The life to which Conover was privy was not one he would choose for himself if he had fancied a positio...

Capital Punishment and Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison

that punishment is really nothing more than the stronger, and perhaps more popular, individual asserting his power and rights over...

Prison and the Problems Confronting Women Who Are Incarcerated

the same degree of health care as is the rest of the community. The article focuses on a prison medical care study that was done b...

Prison Numbers and the Canadian Criminal Code

In five pages this paper discusses the rates of incarceration in Canada in a consideration of the Canadian Criminal Code. Seven s...

Prison Systems of Germany and the US

has five percent of the worlds population and twenty-five percent of the worlds prisoners. According to Marzinsky (2000) more peo...

Prisons and the Importance of Education

This paper examines the social importance of educating prisoners in ten pages with critical thinking skill development a primary f...

Prison Inmates and Intelligence Testing

In twelve pages this paper examines what has been revealed in the intelligence testing of penal system inmates. Twelve sources ar...

Stanford Prison Experiment

In five pages this paper examines this 1970s' psychological experiment with group behavior commentary, 'The Lottery' by Shirley Ja...

Life in Prison and Redemption Found There

first released, but since its debut it has grown in popularity until it is now generally considered one of the greatest films of a...

Milgram’s Shock Experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment

Human interaction varies in accordance with a number of factors. Not surprisingly, this interaction is one of the favorite subjec...

Keeping Parolees Out of Prison

The number of prisoners that are currently incarcerated in our nations jails and prisons is growing more unmanageable by the day....

Wacquant's Prisons of Poverty

not realize that in part, the issue is attached to race, the economy, and social stratification. That is, the issue is not one per...

Stanford Prison Experiment

This is a controversial research study because of the trauma the participants experienced. On day 1, one participant had to leave,...

Prison Rehabilitation Program Evaluation

to the criminal justice system (SCP, 2003). The program addresses the roots of recidivism, which are drug addiction and lack of jo...

Mental Health Issues and Prison System Problems

1997, p.42). Mental health is not only something that is peculiar to an individual, but it is something that affects the entire c...

A Review of the Article Armies, Prisons and Schools

were obscene, food was atrocious, inmates wore what they wanted and they were unkempt; the cells were a mess and there were consta...

Parents in Prison and the Psychological Effects on Their Children

in either federal, state, or local correctional facilities in 2002 it is imperative that we try and determine just how the above f...

Women's Health and MRSA Infections in San Francisco Prisons

who were incarcerated at the San Francisco County jail showed a marked increase for MRSA in recent years.-- going from 29 percent ...

Prison and Juveniles

and as a result of this, there was a change in the way that the courts (read..judges) were to view juvenile offenders. For particu...

Rich Get Richer, Poor Get Prison by Jeffrey Reiman

laws would make people "criminals" for activities that they consider to be normal, while simultaneously increasing the need for se...

Minorities in Prison and Problems Experienced After Their Release

is in prison or jail" (The Human Rights Watch, 2000). Other minorities comprise a significant...

Life in Prison v. Death Penalty

for the criminal, and again, victimizes the families. Advocates of the Death penalty offer that it costs too much to keep s...

Increasing the Prison Term for Armed Robbery

Sciences reviewed all the existing research on deterrence and concluded that the evidence did not answer the question one way or t...

Mental Illness/Prisons & Recidivism

inmates is due to the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric services, which began in the 1960s, as this trend resulted in the rele...

Prison Facility Known as the Women Hope House

public proprietary facilities have been utilized as a means by which to house the additional inmates. Six of these facilities are...

Reiman's "The Rich Get Richer And The Poor Get Prison" - Drugs

also appear to be constantly fueling the social problem of illegal drug use and drug-based criminal behaviors. In essence, the s...