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    King’s Letter from Birmingham While in Jail for peaceful protesting for civil rights‚ Martin Luther King Jr. wrote‚ Letter from Birmingham Jail. He wrote it to a group of clergymen who did not support his civil rights movement in order to try and gain their support. King adopts a tone of controlled anger in order to create a logical yet emotional argument. When talking about the suffering of his people‚ Kings tone holds restrained anger. King displays that; “it is easy for those who have never

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    Design Of Jails Essay

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    Section 1 The purpose of jails is to deter‚ punish‚ and reform inmates. Jails help in deterring those who are apt to commit more crimes than they have already committed. Those found guilty are housed in jails to serve a punishment sentence and hopefully they are acceptable to being reformed by programs and self-help groups. There are several designs of jails including the linear design which the guards can observe inmates through bars by walking up and down the corridor. This design consists

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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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    Section Number: XW Topic Number: 12 Student Name: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Topic: 12- There are currently many computational problems that require large amounts of computer power to solve. Many groups working on these projects have no way to provide the power needed to solve these massive problems with their own computational resources. Many of these groups have turned to Grid Computing to help solve this problem. What is Grid Computing and how does it work? Research Report Essentially grid computing

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    Money In Jail Essay

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    The amount of money we have has a big effect on the kind of life we can live‚ but should it determine whether or not a person stays in jail due to financial equalities? Money should not be the factor in a person spending a few hours in jail to a few days‚ or weeks. When it comes to one’s ability to be free or to be with one’s family‚ sleep in one’s home‚ or go to work‚ should money really be the sole decisive factor? It is for most people who can’t afford bail. Whether you are rich or poor it is

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    Jails and Prisons Response Jails and Prisons Response Prisons and jails may both confine offenders but they have their differences. Jails are for offenders that have short term sentences or for holding until the offender is transferred to a prison. They are also used to hold a criminal during their hearings until

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    authority. Some of these places include prisons‚ concentrated camps‚ mental hospital‚ seminaries‚ and other facilities in which individuals are cut off from society forcibly or willingly. Jails play an important role in the criminal justice system because they keep offenders that have committed a crime off of the streets. Jails also help our community to be safe by holding the inmates who are charged with crimes‚ and making sure

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    Prisons and jails are somewhat similar to each other but are different in some ways so let me tell you a little about jails and prison‚ and those places are for people who have commited a crime or have broken the law. Jails are usually run by law enforcement or local government‚ and are to hold inmates who are awaiting trial or serving a short sentence ‚ jail even often operate work on release programs and boot camps‚ and some offer educational or substance abuse but‚ these programs are created

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    continue your bad ways and continuously go to jail. People who do wrong can make their lives better and do the right thing to become something. But some people choose to go back to jail and make nothing of their life. Going down the path of good can result in you becoming free‚ making money‚ and having a family. There is so much good that comes when you are on the right path. But going down the wrong path again and again can result in you having more time in jail‚ little to no freedom‚ and being unable

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    in is corrections. In corrections you have jails‚ state prisons and federal prisons‚ but there are different security levels within them. I will be briefly discuss the history of corrections and also give your insight to an employee who works in a prison system here in Atlanta‚ Georgia and get some personal views in his field of work. First I would like to start off by talking about jail and it is used to house criminals for short periods of time. Jails usually have people who have been convicted

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