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    Prisoner Testing The years 1965 & 1966‚ Dr. Albert Kligman gave 75 prisoners a dosage of dioxin‚ a chemical used in Agent Orange‚ 468 times greater than protocol. Agent orange was an herbicide used by the US during the Vietnam War to clear its dense vegetation. Those who came in contact with this herbicide had horrible side effects such as birth defects‚ cysts‚ swollen body parts & etc. According to Keramet Reiter‚ a UC Irvine graduate in the department of criminology‚ the prisoners faced such

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    Treatment and punishment towards prisoners during the 1900’s for their beliefs was extremely unfair and some unnecessary. Men chose to fight for what the belief in and do what they thought was right but received endless jail time and cruel punishment. Three men specifically whose names are Philip Grosser‚ Robert Lipscomb‚ and Morton Sobell. They all had their way taking action in what they believed in but were punished. Standing up for what you believe in should never come at cost where you lose

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    CORRECTIONS AND TREATMENT There is a wide choice of correctional treatments available for juveniles‚ which can be subdivided into two major categories‚ which are community treatment and institutional treatment. Community treatment refers to efforts to provide care‚ protection‚ and treatment for juveniles in need. Institutional treatment facilities are correctional centers operated by federal‚ state‚ and county governments. These facilities restrict the movement of residents through staff monitoring

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    II. TREATMENT MODALITIES FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA Management of schizophrenia depends largely on medications and on psychosocial interventions. No single approach is widely considered effective for all patients‚ though in the United States and most Western countries‚ psychiatric medication is often the primary method of treatment. Currently‚ there is a movement towards utilizing a recovery model that emphasizes hope‚ empowerment and social inclusion‚ though this is not yet a mainstream mental

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    of the European Prison Rules Deprivation of liberty does not mean a loss of contact with the outside world.1 Communication of prisoners with the outside world is essential as it serves the important purpose of preventing the prisoners from being isolated‚ decreases the likelihood of staff abuse and promotes reintegration into society.2 Maintaining links between prisoners and the outside world‚ especially with their families‚ is seen as a vital aspect of their preparation for release and regular contact

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    In “Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History‚” Art Spiegelman evokes German expressionist wood-cut drawings‚ similar to Lynd Ward‚ to convey and suggest depth and weight through his use of heavy and jagged lines. This strategy in turn helps the viewer embrace the emotional anguish Artie is feeling after finding out his mother had passed. Spiegelman sets the shockingly confessional tone of the piece in the first two frames by wasting no time describing his mother’s method of suicide. The 1972 story’s

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    purposes inside the criminal justice system. As already stated‚ jail is an imprisonment facility functioned by law local prosecution interventions to house prisoners for a many of reasons. Commonly‚ imprisonment in a jail survives less than a year. In the previous few time jails have progressed consequently enhanced circumstances for prisoners expending new expertise and administrations charms to harvest an additional flexible jail population (Schmallager 2011). The drive of a jail is to embrace

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    Behaviour Therapy and Brief Therapy. These three treatments have been successful with someone with an eating disorder but there are many more which in addition to the predominant approaches used by therapist and other members of the treatment team have been adapted and are often used to provide adjunct forms of treatment‚ including‚ but not limited to‚ any of the following to find the right therapy techniques for the individual person. Adjunct Treatments Nutritional therapy – meal plans‚ nutritional

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    Comprehension of Prisoners without Trial Roger Daniels’ book Prisoners without Trial is another book that describes the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. This piece discusses about the background that led up to the internment‚ the internment itself‚ and what happened afterwards. The internment and relocation of Japanese-Americans during World War II was an injustice prompted by political and racial motivations. The author’s purpose of this volume is to discuss the story in

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    3 Research-based Principles Guiding Watershed Management The purpose of this section is to identify various principles of watershed management that form the basis for the specific goals and implementation objectives for management of the Sudbury watershed lands during the period covered by the plan. These principles are distilled from a literature review of nearly 400 different sources‚ many of which are included in the Literature Cited listing at the back of this plan. 3.1 Principles

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