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    Prison Sex

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    Sexual coercion in prison is a more polite way of saying prison rape or pressure to have sex and giving into the pressure. Prison sex is a topic not many‚ like to touch on. However it is estimated that thousands of men‚ mostly young‚ or incapable of defending themselves have been coerced into performing sexual acts in prison. Another less talked about topic‚ or less understood is the primal need for companionship. Homosexual activity happens in prisons through out the world and through out

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    Prison Sentencing

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    Prison sentences are too soft in New Zealand to the criminals who commit serious crimes and need to be harsher. In New Zealand criminals who commit serious crimes are handed a prison sentence. I strongly oppose the sentencing of criminals currently. I believe justice should be served more harshly. Presently the New Zealand court system is too soft on criminals who commit serious crimes. In 2012‚ there was approximately 376‚000 recorded offences. This resulted in 196‚000 convictions. That’s just

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    Mental Retardation

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    Mental retardation is a term used when a person has certain limitations in mental functioning and in skills such as: communicating‚ taking care of him or herself‚ and social skills. These limitations will cause a child to learn and develop more slowly than a typical child. Children with this disability may take longer to learn to speak‚ walk‚ and take care of their personal needs such as dressing or eating. It is likely that they will to have trouble learning in school‚ but they will learn. It just

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    Prison Design

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    Designing the ideal Prison Elizabeth Wong and Natasha Totonchian November 25th‚ 2013 CLN4U Mr Logan Architectural Layout and Physical Setting To begin‚ our prison is a male prison‚ located on an island on the East Coast of Canada‚ 5 km from mainland. The remote location isolates inmates from the outside world as a security precaution to minimize escapes. Our prison was designed for the safety of both our staff and prisoners. To ensure maximum security and rehabilitation‚ the architectural

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    Andersonville Prison

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    Research Project Andersonville Prison Meikle‚ Caleb Mountain View High School   Andersonville Prison‚ which was also known as Camp Sumter‚ was one of the Confederate Army’s largest military prison camps. It held over 45‚000 Union soldiers. Andersonville Prison was the most infamous of all the prison camps because of extreme overcrowding‚ unsanitary conditions and was commanded by Henry Witz. Infamous Andersonville Prison Out of the 45‚000 soldiers that were in the prison camp‚ 13‚000 died. Although

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    Overcrowding In Prisons

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    Latita Carter Cynthia Armes AIU ABSTRACT This paper will identify the issue of overcrowding inside of prisons. This paper will explain how prisons accommodate space for prisoners after all cells are filled. This paper will elaborate on how overcrowding inside of a prison could threaten the lives of inmates as well as officers. This paper will also analyze overcrowding inside of a prisons leading to health issues. Imagine yourself having to live in filth with thousands of complete strangers

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    The Purpose of Prison

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    The Purpose of Prison Robert Lingo CRJ 303 Bridget Lott March 2nd‚ 2012 The Purpose of Prison Not everyone is model citizens within a society. Individuals cheat people out of money‚ murder‚ rob‚ and rape others within society. When people commit crime against others and not stay within the law they must be punished. This research paper will discuss the purposes for prisons‚ and analyze conditions of prison. There are programs in prison and out of prison to try to reduce an individual from returning

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    Prison System

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    classification is in the prison system‚ I feel we have to look at the history of it as well. In the 19th century classification was hardly used. It was mainly used to control the prison system populations. Things like age‚ gender and number of offenses were used to classify them. During the medical model years of the prison system‚ they used medical reason to classify inmates. This helped control the mentally ill from regular offenders. It wasn’t until recently that prison system started classifies

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    Mental Retardation

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    Mental Retardation Liberty University Human Growth and Development Dr. James W. Eisenhower December 12‚ 2012 Abstract Mental retardation is generally understood as a condition that affects the mental and cognitive functioning of the individual and reduces social and learning skills. The prevalence of mental retardation is relatively high in developed countries and this can lead to various problems in terms of care and treatment. It can have far-reaching consequences for the healthcare system

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    Prison Reform

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    Three inmates could be released from prison today. Two of them will end up right back in the system within three years. This statistic should be enough to conclude that America’s prison systems are failing miserably with the rehabilitation of inmates. How is it plausible for every correctional facility to think isolation‚ segregation‚ and overcrowding could possibly benefit the crime rate? Instead of converting these inmates into proper citizens‚ the system has found ways to hold them down. To suppress

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