"A summary of the history of state and federal prisons" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 27 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Nation Following the Civil War‚ the United States was a country that had experienced great loss and had gone to great lengths to either maintain or abolish slavery. As a nation‚ they were given the difficult task of repairing the damaged country as a whole‚ but especially the south and its economy. Their job was to not only to restore the country‚ but to modernize it and make it stronger compared to other nations. The task presented to the United States‚ its president‚ and its government as a whole

    Premium American Civil War United States Southern United States

    • 2129 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    that will maintain law of order and state of nature to the new American after the declaration of independence. Since the constitution was written‚ the politics of the state and the federal government have fought to establish their power over the other. Some people believe that the state should have more power over the federal government and others believe the Federal government should have more power over the state. People who believe in and support bigger federal Government argue that it has been

    Premium United States United States Constitution President of the United States

    • 1134 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Prison Sex

    • 552 Words
    • 3 Pages

    coercion in prison is a more polite way of saying prison rape or pressure to have sex and giving into the pressure. Prison sex is a topic not many‚ like to touch on. However it is estimated that thousands of men‚ mostly young‚ or incapable of defending themselves have been coerced into performing sexual acts in prison. Another less talked about topic‚ or less understood is the primal need for companionship. Homosexual activity happens in prisons through out the world and through out history. Sex-segregated

    Premium Criminal justice Prison Sexual intercourse

    • 552 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Andersonville Prison

    • 4639 Words
    • 19 Pages

    someone? In society and in the United States since its founding‚ there has been a need to place blame. Imagine how the person being blamed would feel. Henry Wirz did not have to image it; he lived through it and died for it. Someone is always to be blamed‚ even if they were just following orders. Orders which can only go so far until humanity takes effect. Henry Wirz was used as a scapegoat for war crimes committed during the Civil War at Andersonville Prison‚ however that does not justify his acts

    Premium American Civil War Confederate States of America

    • 4639 Words
    • 19 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Overcrowded Prisons

    • 1091 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Millions upon millions if Americans have been sent to prison without a victim ever claiming damages. It is important to look at the burden this mass level of incarceration places upon our society. Viewing the statistics‚ demonstrates just how the destructive mass of incarceration of victimless crimes have been high not only in women but in men as well. Drug offenses are self-explanatory as being victimless‚ but so are public order offenses‚ which also follows the victimless crimes. Public order

    Premium Supreme Court of the United States Cocaine Drug addiction

    • 1091 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    different dates of transition to agriculture (Neolithic revolution) and with the associated history of state-level polities‚ (b) geographic proximity to the colonizing powers‚ and (c) the disease environment faced by the colonizers. In the second part‚ we analyze the developmental consequences of colonization taking the endogeneity of colonizations occurrence and timing into account. We find evidence that history of colonization does not have a direct affect on recent levels of income and recent rates

    Premium Regression analysis Colonialism Europe

    • 12410 Words
    • 50 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Better Essays

    Summary of "A Study of Prisoners and Guards in a Simulated Prison" by Dr. Philip Zimbardo Introduction Have you ever wondered why some institutions succeed while others fail? Dr. Philip Zimbardo‚ a Professor of Psychology‚ insists that America ’s prison system is a failure because of the assumed responsibilities that come with certain positions and not because of the previously assumed dispositional hypothesis which claims the very nature of the prisoners and/or guards constitutes failure in

    Premium Prison Stanford prison experiment

    • 1044 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Community Prisons

    • 1150 Words
    • 5 Pages

    single day to a year” (BJS‚ 2016). Prisons are the types of facilities where criminals are held for much longer sentences because the crime the suspect committed was much worse than one being in a community corrections facility. The prisons get ran by each states government and also the federal Bureau of Prisons. All of the other correctional facilities whether they are private or not fall into this category such as the U.S. Armed Forces‚ U.S. territories and federal agencies such as Immigrations and

    Premium Prison

    • 1150 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Prison and Rehabilitation

    • 1051 Words
    • 5 Pages

    behavior to accept the programs. Rehabilitation comes from inside a person. The person must want to change his behavior and make use of the programs available to them. Intentions of rehabilitation Rehabilitation is specific programs applied within a prison setting intended to bring about the end of criminal behavior called desistance‚ meaning to cease or stop. It is supposed to be a simple formula: prisoner classification X appropriate programming X positive participation = probability of desistance

    Premium Prison Penology

    • 1051 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Overcrowding In Prisons

    • 880 Words
    • 4 Pages

    14 December 2013 Overcrowding in American Jails and Prisons: An Overview of the Issue and Possible Solutions The issue of overcrowding in American jails and prisons is not unheard of. It is frequently discussed amongst politicians and American citizens alike. This is a controversial issue considering the large number of different opinions many people have. Though the issue is certainly acknowledged‚ it is rare that a feasible solution is discussed. According to Vincent Tompkins‚ one of

    Premium Prison Criminal justice United States

    • 880 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 50