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    ail and prisons Jail and Prisons Comparison Kristofer Kem CJA/234 October 18‚ 2012 Luis Cintron Jail and Prisons Comparison Most people do not realize that there are differences between jails and prisons. Jails hold people awaiting trial or people that are sentenced for a short term‚ which is usually less than a year. That is jails place in corrections. Prisons hold people that are convicted of crimes and sentenced for a longer term. In the United States‚ jails are most often run by sheriffs

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    fight off the European oppressors‚ the attack is described as a “massacre.” The history of the Americas overall‚ is widely told from the perspective of the Europeans‚ those who conquered and settled. Rarely do we see the perspective and experiences of the Native Americans and the African Americans who were enslaved in Americas. However‚ historians now are working to reverse this pattern. In the film “The Hidden History of Haiti” historians do a good job at this. Here‚ the perspective of the African

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    Week 2‚ J. Wellhausen‚ Prolegomena to the History of Israel Julius Wellhausen discovered that a source of legislation is detectable in the Pentateuch among previous discoveries of JE and D sources. He argued that this source of legislation is called‚ the Priestly Code. The letter P is given to this view. In the chapter one‚ Wellhausen showed how he came to the conclusion that P source is in fact the youngest source among the sources of JE and D. He concluded that the arrangement of the sources

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    o Based on the ideals of a penitentiary‚ what should it be like? o What was the principal goal of a penitentiary? • What were the differences between the two prison models? • What were the benefits and the drawbacks of each model? • Which model was considered to be the winning model? The penitentiary was suppose to be a place that would be a humane punishment for people that had committed a crime. It was to be used as a place that people could get spiritual improvement as well as rehabilitation

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    SUMMARY HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE CHAPTER 3 : OLD ENGLISH * Old English is a first English language that spoken by Germanic tribes ( Anglo ‚ Saxons ‚ Jutes‚ Frisians ) from 450 S until 1150 S. (The period which full inflection because during most of this period the endings of the noun‚ the verb and the adjective are preserved more or less unimpaired) * Old English has 4 main dialects => Northumbrian ‚ Mercian ‚ West Saxon ‚ Kentish Northumbrian & Mercian are found in the region

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    Prof. Taylor Engl. 101 23 Oct. 2011 Economy Issues? Overcrowded Prisons Prisons throughout the U.S have been overcrowded with inmates who cause a problem for the system itself and the general population. This causes a problem for the reason that it is expensive when prisons are overcrowded and minor crimes like possession of small amounts of marijuana by offenders gets them sent to jail instead of going to rehab. That means the system has to provide alternative jail cells for inmates to stay

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    Jobless Claims in U.S. Drop to Three-Year Low Introduction The United States entered into recession in December 2007 when job losses began. The financial crisis is linked to reckless lending practices by financial institutions and the growing trend of securitization of real estate mortgages in the United States. The US mortgage-backed securities‚ which had risks that were hard to assess‚ were marketed around the world. A more broad based credit boom fed a global speculative bubble in real estate and

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    Prison Models There are three models of prisons that have been prominent in American since the early 1940’s: custodial‚ rehabilitative‚ and reintegration. Each model is designed differently based on its overriding goal‚ and this affects the physical design‚ policies‚ and programs that are implemented within each of the models. Custodial Model Archaic Purpose: Control‚ focus is on maintaining security and order. Goal: Punishment‚ this is the best way to provide deterrence against

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    Australia experiencing consistent rising imprisonment rates and the limited availability of public resources‚ efficient use of prison and criminal justice resources is imperative (Marsh‚ Fox & Hedderman‚ 2009). A cost benefit analysis (CBA) of prisons essentially measures how effective and efficient certain criminal justice interventions are. Marsh et al. (2009‚ p. 146) states that this measurement is done by assessing an intervention where the aim is for the benefit of a certain intervention to outweigh

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    by Howard Zinn. I found the article from "A People’s History of the United States". Howard Zinn claims to show a series of controversial facts about the Revolutionary war and Indian removal. Howard Zinn states the main historical facts of the early 1820’s and all 120‚000 Indians that lived east of the Mississippi. Jackson was a land speculator‚ merchant‚ slave trader‚ and the most aggressive enemy of the Indians in the early American history. Jackson soon established the tactic of promising rewards

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