State and Federal Prison Systems CJS/230 May 13‚ 2012 University of Phoenix State and Federal Prison Systems The United States has the highest‚ documented incarceration rate in the world (Wikipedia.2012.) Approximately 2.4 percent of the United States populations are currently incarcerated. Recently‚ there has been an estimated amount of 2‚266‚800 adults currently in prison in both State and Federal Prison Systems. In this paper‚ I will be talking about a State Prison System‚ “Louisiana State
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In 1789‚ the United States established the United States Government. The government is also known as the federal government. The federal government is divided into three branches. The three branches are: executive‚ judicial‚and legislative branches. These three branches have different roles‚ duties‚ and citizens that help the branch to function properly. In the executive branch‚ the President‚ Vice President and The Cabinet are placed in the the White House which is the head of the executive branch
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STATE is a community of persons more or less numerous permanently occupying a definite portion of territory‚ having a government of their own to which the great body of inhabitants render obedience‚ and enjoying freedom from external control. Elements of State. The modern state has four essential elements. 1. People. This refers to mass of population living within the state. Without people‚ there can be no functionaries to govern and no subject to be governed. 2. Territory
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Daniel Duranceau Econ 1 Wegman 29 September 2012 The Federal Reserve System of the United States There are seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. Dr. Ben S. Bernanke (chairman) was born in December 1953 (age 59) in Augusta‚ Georgia‚ and grew up in Dillon‚ South Carolina. He received a B.A. in economics in 1975 from Harvard University (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. in economics in 1979 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ben S. Bernanke began a second term
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Chapter 33 Employment and Labor Law TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS A1. The employment-at-will doctrine is little used today. ANSWER: F PAGE: 673 TYPE: N NAT: AACSB Analytic AICPA Legal A2. Firing a worker who refuses to perform an illegal act violates pub¬lic policy. ANSWER: T PAGE: 674 TYPE: = NAT: AACSB Analytic AICPA Legal A3. Whistleblower statutes protect employers who retaliate against their employees for “blowing the whistle.” ANSWER: F PAGE: 676 TYPE: N NAT:
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The national and state governments work together to keep America’s federal government running smoothly‚ but the two often are in conflict over who has the final authority to decide policy in various areas. One example is which government should have the final say in whether or not a crime is severe enough to use capital punishment‚ also called the death penalty‚ which is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences (Cochran
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State and Local Government Paper POL/215 University of Phoenix January 15‚ 2006 Introduction The city of Fountain‚ Colorado is a full service municipality. Within the city‚ several actively responsive city boards see to the needs of the community and plan for the city’s future growth. One such board is the City Council‚ which holds regularly scheduled meetings on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month. Each meeting follows the same basic structure and allows for input from local citizens
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9‚ 2013 Eng.112-FJT03 Mr. Yokley Should The Federal Government Legalize Marijuana? This is a question that has been at the center of a very controversial issue. Marijuana is described by the National Institute of Drug Abuse as the dried leaves of the Cannibas Sativa plant. It has been used worldwide for its many benefits from medicinal to industrial up until the 1930s. Common misconceptions about marijuana have been established by the government‚ at times for personal and political gain‚ or
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Danielle Trubish 8-20-17 AP Government/Economics Mr. McKinnon Post Revolutionary War‚ American colonies created a federal government under laws called the Articles of Confederation. The colonies were unfairly treated by Great Britain and decided it was time to gain their independence. In 1786‚ at the Annapolis Convention‚ delegates from five states called for a Constitutional Convention in order to discuss possible improvements to the Articles of Confederation‚ but very few delegates attended
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State and Federal Prison System CJS/230 In our prison system today there are state and federal prisons throughout the United States. Our prison system is based on the created of the nineteenth century prisons that were used. Prisons confined felons serving sentences longer than a year and those sentence to
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