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Essays 31 - 60
home (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2001). Those who live in poverty have always been the victims of the most violenc...
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...
offender and his history at the time of his arrest. Protection of society. This goal of sentencing is to remove the offend...
economic and historical issues surrounding the problem of HIV in prison. Perhaps one place to start is to look at the overall pro...
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 ...
executive officer (CEO) of a small corporation (Dennis, 1999). For example, a "typical medium security prison houses 1,300 inmates...
these miscreants. However, it is often the case that the punishment is not enough. Sexual predators-until more credible research i...
the federal courts to mandate minimum rights for prisoners" (Platt, 1999, p. 237). But by the 1990s, prison reform had died out a...
first institution listed in regards to male offenders, which is the James V. Allred prison unit, located just outside of Wichita F...
are not always paragons of virtue; they may use methods of unfair intimidation against certain inmates while allowing the actions ...
understanding of the way in which the current system, is failing to serve not only the prison population, but the total population...
largely attributable the "War on Drugs," which has tripled the number of inmates held since the 1980s (Foster, 2006). However, sin...
roots. Prison labor offers a way for prisoners to earn money while learning a trade, but with these prisons profiting on such chea...
prisoners at Guantanamo is allowed to sit outside in the sun and interact with other prisoners through a chain-link fence for four...
10). The fact is that we do indeed lock away two million American citizens and in so doing have come to be the...
system is the easier it is to accomplish that goal. In some way, prison is a deterrent in and of itself, but that is debatable. If...
a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...
he were tidying up and cleaning his cell, it is unlikely that he would strew items about. Rather, it is quite likely that he woul...
recent national-level data reveal that gang members account for a very small proportion of any individual prison system" (Trulson,...
Ron Wiebe (2000) flatly states that the major security problem that prisons face is "contraband control and the management of drug...
accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...
This paper examines the very first prisons in America, and discusses the drastic differences between early and modern prison facil...
considered weak and pathetic. In particular, those who are pedophiles stand a very real chance of being killed, maimed, raped and ...
This research paper adresses the fact thaty it is far more costly to house and feed criminals for life than it is to sentence them...
This paper pertains to the subject of private prisons and their effects, which include large penalties to state if the prisons are...
This 4 page paper gives an explanation of how young people are affected by the prison industrial complex. This paper includes how ...
and overlook the possible social benefits associated with alternative sentencing...If federally imposed mandatory minimum sentence...
For and Against Public Correctional Administrator Prisons, jails, detention facilities and all other entities that comprise...