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    Prison Pipeline

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    Research Question: What is the “school-to-prison pipeline‚” and what steps have various reform groups taken to halt the funneling of students into the criminal justice system in major U.S. cities over the past five years? Relevance: The school-to-prison pipeline plagues schools and youth across the country‚ specifically minority and disabled students in urban areas. Due to policies employed in elementary and secondary schools across the United States‚ students are funneled directly from

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    Andersonville Prison

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    Research Project Andersonville Prison Meikle‚ Caleb Mountain View High School   Andersonville Prison‚ which was also known as Camp Sumter‚ was one of the Confederate Army’s largest military prison camps. It held over 45‚000 Union soldiers. Andersonville Prison was the most infamous of all the prison camps because of extreme overcrowding‚ unsanitary conditions and was commanded by Henry Witz. Infamous Andersonville Prison Out of the 45‚000 soldiers that were in the prison camp‚ 13‚000 died. Although

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    Female Prisons

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    affects both females and male prisoners are pretty common across the board. Prisons all have three things in common: they are overcrowded‚ underfunded‚ and unfocused. Both woman and male prisons are overcrowded due to the growing crime rate in America. Therefore‚ many prisons have different practices and levels. There are three particular types which are maximums‚ mediums‚ and minimums. Maximum prisons are the most secured prisons‚ they have both exterior and interior security. One of the biggest pains

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    Privatization of Prisons

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    threat to justice everywhere” Martin Luther King (Famous Black Quoations Janet Cheatham Bell. Prison Privatization is a broadly defined term for the privatization of prisons and prison-related services. In some cases‚ this may include transferring control of existing public sector prisons to private companies. However‚ more commonly private companies are contracted to design‚ build‚ and operate new prisons and jails by federal‚ state‚ and local governments. In still other instances‚ private companies

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    Prison Gangs

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    Prison Gangs Michael Dooley Aiken Tech CRJ 242.013 Prison Gangs Prison gangs are flourishing across the country. Organized‚ stealthy and deadly‚ they are reaching out from their cells to organize and control crime in America’s streets. Law enforcement personal began to systematically monitor gang activities in the 1970’s. Working together‚ their initial attempts were to identify only gangs which had some semblance of formal structure‚ a constitution‚ bylaws‚ mission statement‚ or some identifiable

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    Life in Prison

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    Life in Prison Willie Lee Clark University of Phoenix Institutional and Community Corrections CJA383 Sherri Webster April 25‚ 2011 Life in Prison Prison life in most society is not considered a life worth mentioning. When a person decides to break the law and take up a life of crime‚ he or she should be aware of certain circumstances that lie ahead. When individuals break the law in our society‚ the pathway to a life in jail or prison is almost certain. Life simple freedom that most

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    Gangs in Prison

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    Gangs in Prison The Aryan Brotherhood The Aryan Brotherhood originates in the CDC (California Department of Corrections) and BOP (Federal Bureau of Prisons). The Aryan Brotherhood was founded in San Quentin‚ California in the 1960s. The founders were members of other gangs from the 1950s called‚ “Bluebirds”‚ “Diamond Tooth Gang”‚ and the “Nazi Gang”. Barry Mills and Tyler Davis are now the leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood. Their basic beliefs and mission is they believe in the betterment

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    Women In Prisons

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    Prison reformations that were made during the nineteenth century were centered around the dedication broght on by the superintends. The main issue for the convicts at this time was that there was no separation of genders; reformations to the prison system changed that and the environment these women had to sustain. “For fifty years prior to 1875‚ no women had been committed to the state prison at Charlestown‚ but were confined in jails and houses of corrections” (MCI-Framingham). From the year that

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    The Legitimacy of Prisons

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    From coast to coast in America‚ prisons have become a growing concern; the concern being how well prisons actually work. Over time‚ the amount of people being caged in our country is increasing. Right now there are approximately seven hundred fourteen out of one hundred thousand people that are imprisoned. Some may argue that prisons keep the criminals off the streets‚ but did they happen to think that prison is actually teaching them to become a better criminal and hardening their hearts to make

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    An Effective System

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    20‚ March 2013 2nd Assignment: “An Effective System” “Specifically‚ the growing threat that sexual predators pose to our Nation’s children and their families represents an area where our criminal justice system has failed the American people‚”(Unknown) is a quote by an American politician of the Republican Party‚ Paul Gillmor that illustrates the failures of the current American criminal justice system. According to The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes‚ the purpose of the criminal justice

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