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    Prison Overcrowding

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    that federal and state prisons and county jails are being bombarded with crisis levels of overcrowding (Alcohol Monitoring Systems‚ Inc.‚ 2013). Researchers have also predicted that the situation will continue to get worse because operating budgets are severely being cut‚ and funding to build new facilities are null. Current projections revealed in 2011‚ that the United States prison population has increased a 13 percent‚ which is triple the growth of the entire population as a whole and the cost

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    Population Explosion

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    The ‘Population Explosion’ Essay By Jess Armes From 1750 to 1900‚ the population of Britain dramatically increased from around 7 million to nearly 40 million people. The key question that is mainly discussed is: What was the main reason for this? I shall be studying the most likely causes for the mass increase in the population of Britain‚ and trying to determine which ones were more likely to trigger this ‘population explosion!’ Firstly‚ the majority of cities in Britain began to develop into

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    Population Problems

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    Population Problems Introduction There are simply too many people on our planet‚ and the population is not showing any signs of slowing down.  It is having disastrous effects on our environment.  There are too many implications and interrelationships to discuss in this paper‚ but the three substances that our earth consists of: land‚ water and air‚ are being destroyed.  Our forests are being cut down at an alarming rate‚ bearing enormous impacts on the health of earth.  Our oceans and seas are

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    over population

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    OVER POPULATION “Whether we accept it or not‚ this will likely be the century that determines what the optimal human population is for our planet. It will come about in one of two ways: Either we decide to manage our own numbers‚ to avoid a collision of every line on civilization’s graph – or nature will do it for us‚ in the form of famines‚ thirst‚ climate chaos‚ crashing ecosystems‚ opportunistic disease and wars over dwindling resources that finally cut us down to size” – Alan Weisman

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    Population Dynamics

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    changed greatly since the 1960s and 1970s‚ when there existed a virtual consensus among Western experts that rapid population growth in the developing world represented a serious global crisis. One of the primary causes of environmental degradation in a country could be attributed to rapid growth of population‚ which adversely affects the natural resources and environment. The uprising population and the environmental deterioration face the challenge of sustainable development. The existence or the absence

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    Prison Reforms

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    the United States Prison population has grown past beyond what it can afford. Adult correctional systems supervised an estimated 6‚851‚000 persons at yearend 2014‚ about 52‚200 fewer offenders than at yearend 2013(2015 Kaeble‚ Glaze‚ Tsoutis‚ Minton) Christian Henrichson‚ Ruth Delaney researchers’ discovered that the cost to taxpayer for maintaining prisons in about 40 states was $39 billion. One of the great costs was Hospital and other health care for the prison population which was $335 million

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    Philippines - population Population‚ total The value for Population‚ total in Philippines was 93‚261‚000 as of 2010. As the graph below shows‚ over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 93‚261‚000 in 2010 and a minimum value of 26‚010‚300 in 1960. Definition: Total population is based on the de facto definition of population‚ which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum‚ who are

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    Vulnerable Population

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    Vulnerable Population: Homeless Priscilla Cabreza HCS/531 January 23‚ 2012 Debbie Vaughn Vulnerable Population: Homeless Introduction Many factors can affect the delivery of health care. It is believed that environmental‚ political‚ economic‚ medical‚ demographic location‚ social‚ cultural‚ and spiritual factors can affect certain population groups and can make these groups more vulnerable than the general population. The question of who is vulnerable and what makes an individual vulnerable

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    Over population in the prison system costs billions‚ and that affect us all! Tjy Helms Composition 1 ENG1001 BH Week 5 Professor Henry 05/6/2011 I say why should we the people pay to house‚ feed‚ and provide medical care for people who have never had a history of violent behavior? The issue becomes compounded when we cram thousands of people into a space designed for hundreds. Look at the number of people who are doing hard time‚ for non-violent crimes. These are the people who are costing

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    Among married couples‚ an individual’s perceived and actual risks of being infected with HIV are closely intertwined with his or her spouse’s. As the HIV/AIDS epidemic spreads to the general population‚ a large and increasing proportion of HIV transmissions occur within marriage (Bongaarts 1996). Indeed‚ discordant couples (i.e. couples where only one partner is infected with HIV) represent the majority of HIV-infected couples in sub-Saharan Africa (de Walque 2007)‚ and a large proportion of new

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