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    Minorities In Othello

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    Ethnic minorities in high positions of leadership are becoming the highest growing and highest earning individuals in business. Their growth is attributed to their success in running and operating their businesses with solid leadership. These ethnic minorities often rank higher in many leadership measures over non-minorities. In the play Othello‚ Othello succeeds as a general thanks to his contacts and performance in his position. He makes himself a great example when he leads his crew through a

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    The situation I opted to observe consist of two inmates fighting over the top bunk of a prison cell in a state Penitentiary. When the inmates entered the cell they both made comedic and derogatory comments towards one another‚ one inmate verbalized “you know I’m always top gun right” in replication to the opposing inmate who verbalized “no way could I survive being down that low”. I was cognizant that I had observed my first sign of a potential conflict over spatial matters. I understand that they

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    The Cost of Prison

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    would do well to turn to prisons. Prison reform must attain the lowest economic costs‚ lowering actual taxpayer dollars spent without giving up the benefits of attaining important social goals‚ which represent another form of cost when lost. Undoubtedly‚ the current prison system is doing little to separate the US from its international counterparts in minimizing such cost‚ yet prison privatization has yielded hopeful results‚ as private correctional facilities seem to have a striking advantage over

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    Introduction/Thesis Disproportionate minority contact reveals biased numbers of African American juveniles taken into custody. African American teens are thirty percent more likely to come into contact with law officials than their white peers. Studies have shown that African American youth have higher incarceration rates‚ only making up about sixteen percent of the youth population. Many analysts have posed that the juvenile justice system may process minorities and white offenders in different ways;

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    Prison Rape

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    Prison Rape is no secret in today’s society. The American media has portrayed prison rape as a joke (Don’t drop the soap) in countless films‚ television shows‚ and in music‚ but have not realized the extent of how dangerous this crime is. Some cops even use this method as a means to get a confession from a suspect. A major obstacle in solving Prison rape is the notorious under-reporting of the crime. Only 16 percent of prison rape victims report their victimization. Reasons for under reporting

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    Minorities and Policing

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    Minorities and Policing 1 Minorities and Policing: Unfairly Treated Dorothy J. Fells Criminal Justice 131 C. Thompson December 6‚ 2001 Minorities and Policing 2 Minorities and Policing: Unfairly Treated If we look at the past‚ we can see that there is no warm tradition of community cooperation between the African-American community and law enforcement. Minorities and Policing is an important topic because it deals with issues pertaining to how minorities are

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    Citozi Composition II Unfair America: Mentally Ill Inmates Individuals suffering from mental illnesses tend to fall victim to the criminal justice system due to their uncontrollable actions that result from their mental illness symptoms. Within the United States two to three hundred thousand people in prison suffer from mental illnesses such as schizophrenia‚ severe depression‚ and bipolar disorder. Sadly‚ the majority of prisons are deficient in providing the appropriate resources to treat

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    In Connecticut’s urban areas‚ ethnic-minority groups mortality and morbidity profiles demonstrate the disparity in outcomes primarily for Black and Hispanics residents. Black Americans have a death rate 1.2 times greater than white non-Hispanics. There is a higher rate of chronic illnesses in both ethnic groups including: heart disease‚ hypertension‚ and cancer. The incidence of respiratory disease and asthma for both children and adults was significantly higher Connecticut’s urban communities

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    Prison Privatization

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    Prison Privatization Privatizing prisons may be one way for the prison population to get back under control. Prisons are overcrowded and need extra money to house inmates or to build a new prison. The issue of a serious need for space needs to be addressed. “As a national average‚ it costs roughly $20‚000 per year to keep an inmate in prison. There are approximately 650‚000 inmates in state and local prisons‚ double the number five years ago. This costs taxpayers an estimated $18 billion each

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    Prisons and Jails

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    Prisons and Jails Final Essay Teketta Fleming Kaplan University CJ101-04 Professor McCauley 12-14-2010 How Does Our Correctional System Punish Offenders? The government has imposed punishment as a means to control crime. There are four key justifications for punishing criminals: retribution‚ incapacitation‚ deterrence‚ and rehabilitation (Seiter‚ R.P.‚ 2005). These four justifications serve as the goals of the United States correctional system. The other side of retribution can be simply

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