Corruption is a common occurrence in prisons in this country and around the world. The reason for this is because prison environments provide for the combination of individuals with lost rights and individuals with full power‚ plus minimal monitoring. This equation produces inevitable corruption. The antidote to corruption is exposition. Corruption happens under the cloak of darkness. Once light is shed on the wrong-doing‚ a sort of purification process occurs and wrongs are righted. Hence‚ the
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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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In Jacksonville Florida there lived a couple whose names were Bob and Rebecca Jogger. They both were very avaricious and stole money from each other all the time. The relationship they had was very corrupt in many ways. One day while when Bob was driving past a car dealership‚ he felt the impulse to look around in their parking lot. He parked in a spot and walked around for a few minutes. As he walked around a car caught his complete attention. It was sleek‚ fast‚ and just what he wanted. Bob day
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Running head: PRISON PRIVATIZATION 1 An Assessment of Prison Privatization Sharon Baumann-Heller ORG 8575 Michael Mills August 12‚ 2012 PRISON PRIVATIZATION 2 Abstract Over-crowding in our federal‚ state‚ and local prisons‚ along with a depressed economy‚ has resulted in a trend toward privatization of these facilities. This paper examines the core issues surrounding private prisons in the areas of cost-effectiveness‚ recidivism
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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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PRISON ENVIRONMENT Prison Environment By: James Thomas University of Phoenix Prison Environment Prison environment is cramped and confined and a dangerous environment. There are many inmate customs‚ etiquette or rules to abide by‚ or a convicted individual may be subjected to physical harm or death. The most obvious characteristic of the prison environment is the absence of privacy. The absence of privacy is a deliberate punishment‚ lavatories
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who behave in prison and stay infraction free should be transferred to minimum-security prison. As Santos describes toward the end of his book‚ people respond to incentives more than threats it makes more sense to reward them by sending them to minimum security prisons. I do think that this should apply to those who commit violent crimes‚ such as Crip Tank and Frank. Frank was brought in for running one of the largest drug distributions in his small town. Once he was brought into prison he remained
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Distinctively visual texts are able to manipulate the emotions of the audience to influence the responses of a collective group. John Misto‚ the person behind the play The Shoe-Horn Sonata‚ uses his distinctively visual text as a memorial for the Australian Army nurses who died in the war‚ as they were refused one by the government. “I do not have the power to build a memorial. So I wrote a play instead.” This drama illustrates the way the women were treated in the Japanese prisoner of war camps
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“Overcrowding in Americas Prison System” ABSTRACT In the early years of this country flogging‚ exile‚ branding‚ and the “stocks” were some of the ways used to punish a guilty offender. Today‚ though‚ these types of punishments would quickly be labeled as cruel and unusual forms of retribution. Since we can no longer utilize such forms of punishment‚ the criminal justice system has turned to; imprisonment‚ probation‚ fines‚ and even the death penalty to help and deter offenders from a life of
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Prison Issues [pic] While prisons house a number a social outcast‚ misfits and some all around dangerous people‚ they face a number of problems as well. The prison agencies are taking steps to deal with health threats from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The Justice Department reported that twenty-two thousand four hundred eighty state and federal inmates were infected with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)‚ the virus that causes AIDS. Another issue prisons are facing is dealing
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