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 the many editors in American Decades
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These people‚ who live in the American ghettos‚ are socially excluded and for this reason they end up falling into illicit branches like smuggling and other forms of crimes for being in a fragile situation and lacking options capable of giving them a dignified life. Incarceration is a
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We see that the Latinos‚ individuals with lower income and African Americans are more likely to be imprisoned than white Americans or face longer sentences than white Americans. As they are weak and have inequitable access to resources such as education‚ healthcare lack of awareness in these people lead them to crimes. The resources like Education‚ employment‚ alternative
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Today in my generation I have noticed a huge amount of incarcerations that I’ve seen publicly on television and in the media. The Smarter Sentencing Act does not repeal any federal mandatory minimum sentences‚ but instead reduces prison costs and populations by creating a fairer‚ less costly minimum terms for nonviolent drug offenders (). The 4 main things it will do will be to save billions spent on incarcerating nonviolent drug offenders‚ save expensive prison beds for more dangerous offenders
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does not attempt to disguise of lessen the harsh reality but instead expresses it in a more “abstract” way fitting of a metaphor. 30. One can infer from the passage all the following EXCEPT: Wrong answer: B. The speaker considered himself superior to his African American peers. Right answer: A. The speaker considered himself inferior to his white peers. I believe my mistake resides in not reading the question properly and attempting to look for the statement that COULD be inferred from the passage. My answer is wrong because the
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2. John Wesley is associated with the founding of what religious sect? I chose to omit this question because I couldn’t remember with which “ism” John Wesley was associated. The correct answer is c. Methodism because in the “Impact of the Enlightenment” PowerPoint‚ a parenthetical mentions John Wesley in the description of Methodism. 6. Romanticism changed the direction of the Enlightenment by emphasizing… I answered a. skepticism which is incorrect because skepticism was more of
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Criminals are Valuable Resources It’s no surprise that the United States prison systems are overcrowded. With the elimination of the death penalty in many states the population of incarcerated Americans has quadrupled since the 1970’s. The average cost of keeping an individual behind bars is $50‚000 a year. And we wonder why the government is going broke. Prisons are realistically criminal training grounds. If you put a bunch of car thieves in a cell together for three to five years‚ what
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In modern America‚ prisons have become a controversial topic that is prevalent throughout various forms of media‚ political debates‚ and social discussions. During the numerous debates of the 2016 presidential primaries‚ politicians argued about how the prison population has grown rapidly to approximately two million people. In news programs and newspapers‚ there are extensive reports about the quality of the conditions in various prisons. In several popular television shows and movies‚ there are
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Soc 310 Cook County Jail Reflection Paper Autumn 2009 Our visit to Cook County Jail was very stimulating to say the least. The community that the jail system is located in is primarily filled with Mexican Americans and seems to be very poor. I think that the jail is located there with no consideration of lowering property level due to the fact that it is already a poor neighborhood. I think that it further harms this community because the youth are exposed to jail system unnecessarily. I
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The United States‚ with only 5% of the world’s population‚ holds 25% of the world’s prison population. There are currently 2.23 million juveniles and adults incarcerated in American jails‚ prisons‚ detention centers‚ and the like (Wagner and Rabuy 2015). With record-high rates of incarceration‚ it is not surprising that there is a great deal of controversial debate around the subject‚ including the ways in which incarcerated individuals are treated within prisons. While inmates all face different
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