drug addiction‚ such as poverty‚ trauma‚ and lack of healthcare access‚ the focus has been on punishment and imprisonment. This has resulted in a punitive stance that labels drug users as recurring cycles of addiction and corruption. The War on Drugs has also taken a significant economic toll on society. Billions of dollars are expended annually on law enforcement‚ prosecution‚ and detention related to drug offenses. Moreover‚ the pledged consequences of mass custody‚ such as lost productivity and
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WHEEL OF TORTURE Ten (10) Philippine National Police officers have been discharged after revelations that they played a game called “wheel of torture” at a secret detention facility. The Commission on Human Rights is looking into the supposed maltreatment of up to 41 detainees in the Philippine National Police facility in Biñan‚ Laguna. The facility is a 200-square-meter bungalow being rented by the Laguna police intelligence branch first district unit composed of 12 staffs. At the kitchen area
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want my loved ones safe in the community at all times? Absolutely. Community members are entitled to be protected. If this protection is attainable through the legislation of sentencing laws and indefinite sentencing laws‚ then surely the use of detention is justifiable? Trend 2: The question to be asked is this: How‚ in an age when community safety is so dominant‚ can we retain the integrity of Mental Health offenders? By integrity we mean how can we care for the mentally disordered when the tendency
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Tillian Stokeling November 10‚ 2010 Criminal Procedures Mid- Term Probable cause does not rise to the level of proof beyond a reasonable doubt but must be beyond a mere hunch or guess. The legal standard to a probable cause arrest is when an officer finds evidence during a valid stop and frisk search that confirms the reasonable suspicion of an officer that a crime has been or is being committed and would lead to the arrest of and offender. There are a variety of sources to establish probable
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Gerald Scarpelli‚ pleaded guilty in July 1965‚ to a charge of armed robbery in Wisconsin. The trial judge sentenced him to 15 years’ imprisonment‚ but suspended the sentence and placed him on probation for seven years in the custody of the Wisconsin Department of Public Welfare. At that time‚ he signed an agreement specifying the terms of his probation and a "Travel Permit and Agreement to Return" allowing him to reside in Illinois‚ with supervision there under an interstate compact. On August 5
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first prison opened in the United States in 1790‚ incarceration has been the center of the nation’s criminal justice system. Over this 200 year period many creative alternatives to incarceration have been tried‚ and many at a much lower cost than imprisonment. It wasn’t until the late 1980’s when our criminal justice systems across the country began experiencing a problem with overcrowding of facilities. This problem forced lawmakers to develop new options for sentencing criminal offenders. Unlike jail
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The four main purposes of punishment in the criminal justice system are: Deterrence - this is something intended to discourage someone from commiting a crime through instilling fear as to the consequences for their actions. There are two types of deterrence - specific deterrence and general deterrence. Retribution - its purpose of punishment is to administer justice - a deserved or morally right consequence to the offender that committed the crime. Rehabilitation - this punishment aims to reform
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Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) controls more than 47% of all private prison and jail beds nationwide and produces a 13% to 15% return annually on investment. This company is the nation’s largest owner and operator of privatized correctional and detention facilities and one of the largest prison operators in the United States‚ behind only the federal government and three states. They specialize in owning‚ operating and managing prisons and other correctional facilities and providing inmate residential
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At 26 years old‚ she was abducted from the western Sydney suburb of Blacktown‚ and raped and murdered at nearby Prospect‚ on the evening of 2 February 1986. Five men‚ including three brothers‚ were convicted of her murder and sentenced to life imprisonment‚ without any possibility of parole.[1] The murder caused much outrage within the community and Australia at large‚ who subsequently campaigned for justice and the reinstatement of the capital punishment. Cobby worked in Sydney and commuted daily
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JUVENILE JUSTICE ASSESSMENT TEMPLATE To Conduct an Assessment of the Juvenile Justice Systems in the Republics of Serbia and Montenegro in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia October 2001 Prepared by Carol Conragan Attorney at Law [pic] INTRODUCTION The Aim and Objective Sponsored by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY)‚ the following template
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