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    Contraband in Prison

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    contraband‚ the most commonplace items seized are drugs‚ tattooing equipment‚ electronics‚ and weapons. Contraband‚ as defined by US Legal‚ refers to property that is illegal to possess or transport. The Arizona Revised Statues define the promoting of prison contraband as a person‚ not otherwise authorized by law‚ who knowingly takes contraband into a correctional facility or the grounds of a correctional facility‚ conveying contraband to any person confined in a correctional facility‚ or by knowingly

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    Federal Trade Commission

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    The Federal Trade Commission is an independent agency of the U.S. government that was established in 1915 and charged with keeping American business competition free and fair. The FTC has no jurisdiction over banks and common carriers‚ which are under the supervision of other governmental agencies. It has five members‚ not more than three of whom may be members of the same political party‚ appointed by the President‚ with the consent of the Senate‚ for seven-year terms. The act was part of the program

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    Controlling gangs in prison is not and has never been an easy task. No strategy is possible to eliminate the vice totally. However‚ some strategies have proved to control prison gangs to a large extent. The main strategy is the one that was applied in the state of Texas in 1990s. In the strategy‚ confirmed gang members were isolated in separation wings and/or prison units‚ along with other intransigent inmates who balked at the institutional regime. Through intelligence-gathering and suppression

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    Poverty has always been a problem throughout history and despite being one of the most prosperous countries in the world‚ the U.S is not immune to it either. There are many approaches when it comes to poverty measure‚ although the most up to date measure of poverty in the U.S is based on the model that was established in the mid-1960s by Mollie Orshansky‚ an economist at the U.S SSA at the time. This model consists of ‘’a set of thresholds for families of different sizes and composition that are

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    Jails and Prisons

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    Jail and Prison One of the key cornerstones of the criminal justice system is the correctional system‚ specifically the correctional facilities. Prisons and jails are examples of correctional facilities that help keep the criminal justice system running smoothly and efficiently. Without these facilities‚ there would be no place for criminals to serve their sentences‚ and no one would really be safe. Although prison and jail seem to be interchangeable words‚ they actually mean two different types

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    Federal Express

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    INTRODUCTION Federal Express‚ is a packaging and mail delivery company that had evolved 20 years ago. The company’s strongest feature is its Human Resources department that had seeked to follow and concentrate on its mission statement throughout its growing years: "The Personnel Division is dedicated to maintaining a global environment consistent with P-S-P‚ quality standards‚ local culture‚ and relevant laws and regulations in which employees are motivated to high levels of achievement of corporate

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    Prison Environment

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    PRISON ENVIRONMENT Prison Environment By: James Thomas University of Phoenix Prison Environment Prison environment is cramped and confined and a dangerous environment. There are many inmate customs‚ etiquette or rules to abide by‚ or a convicted individual may be subjected to physical harm or death. The most obvious characteristic of the prison environment is the absence of privacy. The absence of privacy is a deliberate punishment‚ lavatories

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    is not afraid to share his opinion about prison in his article‚ “Abolish prison.” Right from the start he throws his opinion in his reader’s face by saying prison is possibly the “most astonishingly stupid and inhuman way to punish crime.” Pascal’s article not only expresses his opinion on why prisons are so inhumane‚ but it also provides alternatives that could be taken in case all prisons did fall off the face of the Earth. According to Pascal‚ prisons are the “enemy of rehabilitation” and are

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    Andersonville Prisons

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    The prison camps of the American Civil War were terrible due to the falling apart of prisoner exchange programs‚ the decline of paroles available for officers‚ and poor war strategies by both sides. Camps were scattered across the country in both the North and the South. The best known of the Union camps were; Fortress Monroe‚ Virginia; Ohio State Penitentiary‚ Ohio and point Lookout‚ Maryland. The better known of the Confederate camps were; Danville‚ Virginia; Libby Prison‚ Richmond‚ Virginia and

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    allegiance to the Union. However‚ on July 2‚ 1864‚ Radical Republicans from the House and Senate considered Lincoln’s Ten-Percent plan to be too lenient on the South‚ passing down the Wade-Davis Bill that required 50 percent of white males in rebel states to swear a loyalty oath to the constitution. Instead‚ Lincoln pocket-vetoed the bill‚ and as a result the Wade-Davis Bill was never

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