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Analysis of "Are Prisons Obsolete?"

10). The fact is that we do indeed lock away two million American citizens and in so doing have come to be the...

Research Proposal; Success Factors in Rehabilitation in Ugandan Prisons

understanding of the way in which the current system, is failing to serve not only the prison population, but the total population...

Conducting Drug-Use Research/Texas Prisoners

first institution listed in regards to male offenders, which is the James V. Allred prison unit, located just outside of Wichita F...

Life in Prison from the Inside

are not always paragons of virtue; they may use methods of unfair intimidation against certain inmates while allowing the actions ...

Prison Gangs and Their Effect on Prison Populations

recent national-level data reveal that gang members account for a very small proportion of any individual prison system" (Trulson,...

Prison Industries

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...

Law Enforcement, Prison Overcrowding and Privatization :

While the region was relatively rural and it ultimately existed on the outskirts of the county, with many dirt roads and limited a...

Issues of Concern to Prison Inmates

a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...

Did Bradwyn Intend to Escape?

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...

Criminal Justice Issues

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...

Solving America's Prison Problems

deterrent because the electronic monitoring devices place the criminals at crime scenes that practically guarantee a conviction (Y...

Overcrowding in Florida Prisons

properly! In 1968, the Nixon administration declared a "war" on illicit drug use and by 1972, the prison populations experienced...

Possible Solutions for Overcrowded Prisons

Problem Exists In 2007, a survey showed that there were roughly 1,775 jails in U.S. towns with less than 100 beds, and this is do...

Model A’s, Model T’s, and the Changing Face of America

few weeks later, the company sold its first automobile, to a doctor in Detroit (Davis). As noted above, the company produced 1,700...

The Potential benefit Of M&A's in Supporting Nigerian Economic Growth

During the early 20th century merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the United States provided one of the tools for economic gr...

Prison Overcrowding

This research paper pertains to overcrowding in prisons and asserts that this constitutes the most significant challenge facing th...

Prison Riots

people were injured (James, 2009). The suspected cause racial tensions between Blacks and Hispanic inmates. More than two decades...

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...

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...

Criminal Justice System and Discrimination

fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...

Violence in U.S. Prisons

In fourteen pages this paper considers the causes and possible solutions to U.S. prison violence. Eight sources are cited in the ...

Frivolous Lawsuit Filing by Prison Inmates

In ten pages this paper discusses prison inmate filing of frivolous lawsuits in the U.S. in a consideration of statistical data an...

Alfie Kohn's The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...

Reform Movements in Chinese History

In five pages the various historical movements of Chinese reforms and the reformers views on culture are examined in a considerati...

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...

Inmate Luxuries and U.S. Prison System Problems

nature. Many of my friends inflict a common punishment on their young children of not allowing them to watch television for a cer...

U.S. Southwest Prison System

This paper consists of eight pages and examines the problems associated with the Southwest's system of incarceration. Six sources...

Union History and Reform Legislation

Union history is the focus of this paper consisting of ten pages in which the Wagner Act, the Taft Hartley Act, and the Labor Mana...

Overcrowding in US Jails, Prisons

This essay offers an argument that it is a moral and ethical outrage that overcrowding in the nation's jails and prisons has been ...

Mexican Broadcast History

ever built one man, Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, invented a kind of camera that was monochromatic which means it was a camera that...