of State and Federal Prisons Claudia Bailey CJS/230 November 12‚ 2011 Dr. Kay Carter History of State and Federal Prisons Jails date back to very early civilization; prisons came some time later. Some of the earliest jails that are documented are the Walnut Street Jail and the High Street jail. Prisons began being built in 1790; the first prison was at Walnut Street Jail when they added a new cell house to the existing structure dedicated to housing criminal’s long term. The Federal Bureau
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State and Federal Prison System CJS/230 In our prison system today there are state and federal prisons throughout the United States. Our prison system is based on the created of the nineteenth century prisons that were used. Prisons confined felons serving sentences longer than a year and those sentence to
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Daniel Duranceau Econ 1 Wegman 29 September 2012 The Federal Reserve System of the United States There are seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. Dr. Ben S. Bernanke (chairman) was born in December 1953 (age 59) in Augusta‚ Georgia‚ and grew up in Dillon‚ South Carolina. He received a B.A. in economics in 1975 from Harvard University (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. in economics in 1979 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ben S. Bernanke began a second term
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State vs. Federal Rights State vs. Federal Rights PS1350 Implied powers are powers not given to the government directly through the constitution‚ but are implied. These powers fall under the Elastic Clause in Section 8 of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution. This document lets the government create “necessary and proper” programs/laws and retain them‚ such as creating the Air Force. The Air Force is an implied power because the constitution did not give the power of the Air Force
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State and Federal Court Systems Fawn A. Babcock American InterContinental University Abstract The American court system is divided up into different systems to better serve the people it is meant to protect. Each branch deals with different types of cases yet they work together in handling these cases. While the Federal system deals with cases handed down directly by the U.S. Constitution the State system deals with their respective state constitutions and the
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History of State and Federal Prison According to "History Of State And Federal Prisons" (July 7‚ 2011)‚ “State prisons are primarily operated by state governments. Overcrowding is a persistent problem in most state and federal prisons. By the end of 2001‚ state prisons were operating between 1 and 16 percent over capacity. This makes the prisons more difficult to operate‚ and puts the health and safety of inmates and staff at risk. The prison systems known today are based on eighteenth century Age
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Paper: Policing Strategies and Citizen’s Rights Police agencies in the United States currently focus their attention and efforts in reducing crime rates in high crime neighborhoods. Police agencies do this by implementing strategies and tactics in order to be specialized in the reduction of crime. This mindset of policing has come over time due to a shift from the traditional policing strategy to a more community based policing approach. This transition was a result to the 2008/2009 policing crisis
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this Administration of Justice course I have learned how different groups of persons are classified and handled by the criminal justice system and the importance of them being handled the way they are‚ also the duties and responsibilities of the federal‚ state‚ and municipal law enforcement agencies‚ in addition during the course we’ve held discussions about the importance of
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rests with local police departments. Community policing presents an overarching philosophical orientation that agencies can use to better deal with the threat of terrorist events and the fear that they may create. The community policing philosophy can be roughly divided into three interrelated elements: organizational change‚ problem solving‚ and external partnerships. Each element applies to the issues of terrorism prevention and response‚ as well as to fear. Since 11 September‚ the federal government
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STATE-LEVEL ANALYSIS According to Chittick & Pingel (as quoted in the text)‚ what is important from the state level perspective is how a country’s political structure and political forces and substantial actors within the country cause its government to decide to adopt one foreign policy or another. This is more so given the fact that policy making must occur within the context of a political structure and states are the most important part of that structure. Since the variety involved in the
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