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    Memo Date: March 27‚ 2013 To: Federal Bureau of Prisons From: Karrington C Norris Subject: Overcrowding of Juvenile Correctional Facilities Introduction Within the juvenile correctional facilities community‚ there are public and private institutions that both experience and suffer from similar problems. The problems that face these facilities are overcrowding. Through close comparison of the major issues with juvenile correctional facilities‚ the institutions are revealed to be ineffective

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    | | | The parole system began after enactment of legislation on June 25‚ 1910. By legislation of May 13‚ 1930‚ a single Board of Parole in Washington‚ D.C. was established (Chase‚ 2000). Parole procedure starts with the inmate’s eligibility for parole which is determined

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    Jails and Prisons Grace Melendez CJA 490 December 24‚ 2012 Kevin Perry Jails and Prisons In the world of Criminal Justice‚ jails as well as prisons play an extremely important role in society. These facilities serve the purpose of housing individuals who have committed a crime. This paper will focus on the various types of prisons‚ the comparison of jails and prisons in the United States correctional system‚ the advantages and disadvantages of probation and parole‚ the role of community-based

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    Reflection on American History X After watching American History X‚ I swore to myself that this would be one of my favourite movies of all time. It changed my view on racism‚ violence‚ abomination and change. These four were all exposed in the movie. Those three were very much shown in the film even at the beginning of the story when Danny told his brother‚ Derek‚ that a group of black guys were breaking in to his car. Their father‚ Danny and Derek‚ was killed by a black man that caused Derek’s

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    American History X This is my favorite movie. One would think that America as a more modern society is moving forward with affirmative action‚ equal rights‚ and government laws. Differences in skin color and cultural beliefs are the visual characteristics that have caused various hate crimes. Laws that give non-white ethnic groups the rights to share in education and form businesses add a new frustration to white America. Danny Vineyard‚ played by Edward Furlong‚ young life has seen its share

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    American History X is clearly a film dealing with racism. The interesting thing about this film is the way in which the subject is treated. First of all‚ it is obvious that‚ though racism is always a difficult subject to deal with‚ American History X presents it without any reservations or dumming down. Second‚ the film’s figurehead for racism‚ Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton)‚ is not an unintelligent redneck racist as films often portray them‚ but is in fact well-spoken‚ charismatic and intelligent

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    poor and black or Hispanic or Native American‚ you won’t get a fair deal; and the basic contentions that there are biases at every level of the system are well founded (Simpson‚ 17). Awards for black victims in civil suits are a third or sometimes half the amount of those given to white plaintiffs. Other studies show that sentences for black criminals tend to be longer than those handed down to whites convicted of similar crimes. Defenders of the existing system say that sentencing decisions are based

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    cultural connections of the film American History X and analyze the important rhetorical of my findings. I went about choosing American History X by placing a poll on Facebook listing out the films that I had any slight interest in considering for this assignment and American History X won by a landslide. I was actually somewhat disappointed‚ because I wanted to do The X-Files‚ but I chose to stick to my promise and go with whatever text won. I watched American History X some years after its release

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    AMERICAN HISTORY X American History X (1998) illustrates how segregation is aggravated by missing father figures as well as the herd mentality of the characters in the film. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ’s concept of the herd mentality states that people need a concept or a worldview to adopt in order to give meaning to their lives. This herding of people who choose to adopt this certain ideal or ideals in effect causes the stifling of individual thoughts or creativity because everyone

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    Danny’s history teacher (Elliot Gould) explaining to the principal‚ Dr. Sweeney (Avery Brooks)‚ that Danny wrote a book report on Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. The teacher tells Dr. Sweeney that he is offended by Danny’s gesture and he wants to see him punished‚ declaring that Danny was pressured into writing the paper by his older brother Derek‚ although Sweeney assures him that Derek was not involved. Instead‚ Sweeney asks the teacher to leave and asks Danny to step in.Danny then puts an American flag

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