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    Women in Prison

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    Women prisons have less population than male prisons. Two out of every three women in prison have children. One out of three are pregnant when being incarcerated. There are many debates between the citizens and the community that pregnant women should not be incarcerated. If the women commit the crime‚ they should to their time. But I also believe in people changing and learning from their mistakes‚ with the jail programs and rehabilitation to learn from their mistakes and not go to prison in their

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    Violence In Prisons

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    1. Dean Spade‚ The Laws Will Never Make us Safe. “Some people who are identifying prisons and boarders as some of the most significant forms of violence that need to be opposed and resisted by queer and Trans politics‚ are calling for an end to all prisons.” The article is addressing issues of violence among individuals who become easy victims of hate crimes with in the criminal justice system. Much like how Queer and trans individuals are working towards trying to dismantle the racial identity

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    Supermax Prisons

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    Supermax Prisons and Their Adverse Effects Introduction Due to increasing crime rates and the extensive belief that rehabilitative programs for inmates do not work‚ a new and harsher method for prisons is being utilized. Instead of scattering the worst criminals‚ they are being consolidated into Supermax prisons. Supermax prisons are state of the art penitentiaries meant to hold only the worst of the worst criminals and inmates that cannot be trusted in regular prisons. There are strict regulations

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    “The Border Patrol State” is an article written by Leslie Marmon Silko‚ a Native American writer‚ who also has written another book titled Almanac of the Dead. This article originally appeared “In the Nation” on October 17‚ 2014. Silko claims that the border patrol agents where racially profiling any white person traveling with a person of color‚ nuns‚ women with very long or short hair‚ and also white men with beards and long hair. I believe her intent of writing this article was to bring awareness

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    Despite the fact that the federal bureaucracy was never explicitly laid out in the constitution‚ was never instituted and planned‚ and was evolved by the gradual accretion of agencies and tasks over time‚ the federal bureaucracy proves to be one of the most influential and powerful departments in American government. The original bureaucracy of the federal government began as a small group of people from three departments: the State‚ Treasury and War departments. This group of people formed together

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    the “modern rhetorical presidency‚” with respect to their State of the Union speeches‚ in two distinct ways: 1) the speeches are relatively short‚ hovering around 5‚000 words‚ as compared to nearly 30‚000 in 1906 (Teten 2003‚ 340) and 2) the speeches consist of a relatively high rate of the words “we” and our‚” hovering around 2.5% as compared to below 1% before 1914 (Teten 2003‚ 342). Therefore‚ a brief overview of Barack Obama’s 2016 State of the Union address reveals that the speech conforms to

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    Alcatraz Prison

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    Alcatraz Island and Prison Alcatraz Island‚ also infamously known as “The Rock”‚ is located in the San Francisco Bay 1.5 miles offshore from San Francisco‚ Ca. It stands 121 feet above sea level and spans approximately 22 acres. The Spanish Lieutenant Juan Manuel de Ayala named Alcatraz Island for sea birds; he was reported to be the first known European to sail through the Golden Gate in 1775. It was named “La Isla de los Alcatraces” meaning the Island of the Pelicans. It later became home

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    emperor‚ Constantine (Matthews & Platt‚ 2014‚ p. 183). The book entitled The History of the Church covers many historical accounts of events that are important to the Christian faith‚ including the persecutions of Peter and Paul‚ the destruction of churches by Diocletian‚ the martyrdom of faithful followers‚ and the end of Christian persecution when Constantine became a follower of Christ. First‚ from an excerpt from The History of the Church‚ Eusebius writes about Emperor Nero’s many atrocities against

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    the United States Department of Labor  Ensures safe and healthy conditions for workers  Provides training‚ education‚ and assistance OSHA Regulations    Administrative Safety  Behavior and Attitude Exposure Control  Tools and Equipment  Facility Safety Personal Protection Department of Energy “Energy Department”  Created by Department of Energy Act of 1977  Current Head of DOE‚ Secretary Ernest Moniz  Successor to the Atomic Energy Commission  History traces back

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    Bruce Schneier seems to think so in this Article titled The Internet is a Surveillance State. In this article‚ Schneier believes that this big data will make all our deepest darkest secrets known to the world. However‚ it really is not the end of the world. For this article‚ it has some strong points such as its intro‚ showing that even the smartest internet users can still be caught. Schneier also goes on to state that this is the end‚ we’re done. Though he does have a point‚ the way he goes about

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