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    Women In Prisons Summary

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    women in prison and jail‚ Texas which held 21‚344‚ and Florida which had 14‚094. The female population had grown by 5% compared to the men with 3.3%. In the 1800s‚ women and men were being imprisoned in the same facilities. The living conditions were unhealthy‚ overcrowding‚ and the women suffered from filthy conditions. Also‚ sexual abuse was common issue reported with male offender raping the women and staff workers in prison. Elizabeth Fry was one activist who fought for women in prison‚ she was

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    Prison System

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    I don’t think one system is better than the other system both may have a positive effect on criminals. It just depends on what the crime is if is a less severe crime than prisoners should be put in the South Dakota system. Where they help prisoners find a good outcome out of the situation and lets them see that there’s so much more than going to jail. For criminals that have a severe crime than they should be put in the tent city system because they have to learn their punishment. Many of the people

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    criminal conviction‚ is called incarceration. Incarceration is one of the main forms of punishment for the commission of illegal offenses. Juveniles and adults alike are subject to incarceration. Incarceration is the detention of a person in a jail or prison. The federal‚ state‚ and local governments have facilities to confine people. Individuals awaiting trial‚ being held pending citations for non-custodial offenses‚ and those convicted of misdemeanors (crimes which carry a sentence of less than one

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    THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT One of the most interesting studies made in history was led by Philip Zimbardo‚ a psychologist and a former classmate of Stanley Milgram (who was famous for his Milgram experiment). He sought to expand on Milgram’s experiment about impacts of situational variables on human behavior by simulating a prison environment‚ in which volunteering students were randomly assigned as prisoners or prison guards. Many controversies have been elicited from this experiment‚ and it

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    Privatized Prison System

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    Public or Privatized Prison Systems Phillip Ishee American InterContinental University Abstract This assignment will discuss two arguments that the public sector prisons can make to keep prisons in the public’s hands‚ while also discussing two arguments the private sector can make to get the prisons in their hands. This assignment will also discuss any legal issues of privatizing prisons and the challenges both private and public prisons face. During the course of a prison and its lifetime

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    After the Civil War ended‚ the abolition of slavery created a controversy in the economic motivation of the South over work force and the penal system. However‚ during the 1800’s a new found free labor force known as convict leasing became most popular. Convict leasing allowed wealthy families who bid the highest to lease the convict and use their labor in exchange for food and clothing. The lessee could force the convict do whatever he pleased. Even though the convicts were paying the price of their

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    The Stanford Prison Experiment Following the American Psychological Associations guidelines Zachary Hudson Waterford District High School Abstract The Stanford prison experiment‚ an unethical experiment created to study human nature in the most hellish of environments. Regular students were deceived into applying for the experiment itself and later regretted the choice because of the events that occurred during the short time that experiment ran in. The experiment ran and

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    Alcatraz Prison Essay

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    Abstract Alcatraz Prison was one of the most secure prisons ever built in the United States. Alcatraz was erected in the San Francisco Bay and originally was a military facility during the late 1800s. Alcatraz has housed 1‚576 of the United States most dangerous criminals during its 29 year existence (Williams). Alcatraz has housed well known criminals such as Al Capone and George Barnes (The Rock). The prison was considered escape proof‚ so when prisoners from other federal facilities were causing

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    as juvenile prison and spending a day in an adult prison is ineffective and unhuman to juveniles. In t.v. shows such as Scared Straight‚ the children are forcible shown the harsh conditions in prison to prove a point that jail is bad but later on the children still end up getting into trouble and sent to jail. Which shows how ineffective the show is but every time a new set of children are introduced and most at the end has a worse behavior than before. In the terms of juvenile prison for the children

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    1. What are the significant political‚ scientific‚ and intellectual developments that occurred during the first half of the twentieth century (1900-1950)? (10 points) In the first half of the twentieth century‚ there were many significant developments that were political‚ scientific‚ and intellectual. The political developments that occurred in the twentieth century are fascism‚ liberal-democratic capitalism‚ and communism. Communism came into play during the Russian Civil War. Fascism took place

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