of African Americans placed in the prison system. According to NAACP‚ from 1980 to 2008‚ the number of people incarcerated in America quadrupled-from roughly 500‚000 to 2.3 million and out of the 2.3 million incarcerated 1 million are African Americans. African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites. 1 out of 3 African American males are expected to go to prison in their lifetime compared to the 1 out of 17 white males who are most likely to end up in prison as well.
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Security Threats in Prison Kaylee Robertson Kaplan University Security Threats in Prison As I am sure you are aware‚ there are security threats in prisons‚ just like there are anywhere else. The biggest threat in prisons right now are the presence of several gangs. The majority of these gangs are one race & are extremely violent. Several of these gangs target young kids in high school‚ middle school‚ and even elementary school. The first major gang whose presence in prisons is a high security
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WOMEN IN PRISON I decided to write my essay on the topic of women in prison. I chose to not only write about the way of life of these women after being convicted‚ but also the very real and serious issue about pregnant convicts. “according to the Women’s Prison Association 5‚000-10‚000 women enter prison already pregnant each year”(Lynch‚ 2007‚ para 4) Correctional facilities are an important venue for providing pregnancy-related care‚ including access to abortion services
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Abstract This essay‚ The Myth of the Model American Family‚ is a discussion of the concept of an ideal family in the different perspective specifically social‚ cultural and economic. This is also an attempt to identify the structural changes in relation to the global development and the international economic crisis that immensely created impact on their lives. However‚ the discussion will limit itself on the different identifiable and observable transformations as manifested in the lifestyles
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In the United States there are six major prison gangs that are recognized nationally for their participation in organized crime and violence. They are as follows from largest to smallest in member size. There is the Neta‚ Aryan Brotherhood‚ Black Guerilla Family‚ Mexican Mafia‚ La Nuestra Familia‚ and the Texas Syndicate. By definition a gang is a group of people working together or a group of persons working to unlawful or antisocial ends; especially: a band of antisocial adolescents. The
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Jails and Prisons Jails and Prisons The United States has an every growing criminal population. The two main ways to house criminals is jails‚ and state prisons. The San Diego Central Jail is the primary jail for San Diego county and houses more than 900 inmates on a daily bases. The Donovan Correctional Facility houses more than 3‚666 inmates at one time because of an increase in its original population limit; however‚ that also shows the need for more prisons and housing facilities. The
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Criminals are Valuable Resources It’s no surprise that the United States prison systems are overcrowded. With the elimination of the death penalty in many states the population of incarcerated Americans has quadrupled since the 1970’s. The average cost of keeping an individual behind bars is $50‚000 a year. And we wonder why the government is going broke. Prisons are realistically criminal training grounds. If you put a bunch of car thieves in a cell together for three to five years‚ what
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Model Research Paper ENG302B: American Literature | Unit 4 | Lesson 1: What is a Research Paper? Model Research Paper The Constitution: A Model of Collaborative Effort By Jeffrey Twinning Who wrote the Constitution? Was it Thomas Jefferson? No‚ Jefferson was the main author of the Declaration of Independence‚ but he did not attend the Constitutional Convention in 1787 because he was in France serving as the American minister to that country. Was it George Washington? No‚ he was president of
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only 5% of the world’s population‚ holds 25% of the world’s prison population. There are currently 2.23 million juveniles and adults incarcerated in American jails‚ prisons‚ detention centers‚ and the like (Wagner and Rabuy 2015). With record-high rates of incarceration‚ it is not surprising that there is a great deal of controversial debate around the subject‚ including the ways in which incarcerated individuals are treated within prisons. While inmates all face different challenges while being imprisoned
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Who knew that an uprising that occurred in the fall of 1971 at a New York correctional facility would help change the American penal system forever? It was the culmination of a storm that had been brewing for months. There was a tension between the guards and inmates that had not gone unnoticed. With little to no attention given to the circumstances of the inmates‚ they had had enough. Earlier that year during the summer months‚ inmates had come together and participated in peaceful protests. These
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