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    How To Privatize Prisons

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    Privatizing prisons? Abstract The main goal of a prison that is considered to be privatized is to maximize the profits within that prison. In order to maximize profits the budgets that include services for the inmates‚ protection for the public and staff‚ as well as the salary and benefits of the staff of the privatized prison may be analyzed and cut. By allowing the privatization within the prison system the public‚ the staff‚ and the inmates will find themselves in jeopardy.

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    How To Work In Prison

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    My point of view on this matter comes from experience at the prison. For something to work‚ the person has to use it first. By just buying a vacuum cleaner doesn’t make the house clean. The individual has to use the vacuum cleaner to clean the house then it will be clean. The same idea with the inmates‚ by just providing the programs and classes doesn’t make them better. There a lot of programs that are offered inside a prison that inmates can take advantage of but there are multiple problems as

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    What do members of minority groups gain and lose as they undergo a process of assimilation the process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture. As a minority you gain and lose it can be positive or negative. Every culture is different as we all know as a minority you have to adapt to the norms. As a minority you gain certain things such as learning a new language although it might be very difficult‚ given the right for a better education‚ being independence the

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    Minorities In America

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    If you are being held under water how do you expect to breath. This is what is happening to minorities in America. America’s society holds down minorities and all they are trying to do is come up for air. Doesn’t everyone have the right to breathe? America’s jails are filled with minorities. Minorities that would have less likely been put in jail for the same crime if it was a caucasian person. Minorities are put in the system and are made to work and in a sense‚ treated as modern day slaves. It

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    Minorities In Police

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    officers see minorities differently than white people? There have been many incidents of police officers abusing their use of power against minorities. In the past‚ police officers used excessive force during events such as‚ the civil rights protests in the 60s‚ the beating of Rodney King in 1991‚ and the 1992 L.A riots. However‚ recent events (death of Sandra Bland‚ Trayvon Martin‚and Michael Brown) have sparked questions of whether police officers are racist towards minorities. Despite the

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    The Disparities Among Minority Inmates in the American Prison System Melvin Kenney ENG 122 Dr. Beckwith-Howard March 18‚ 2013 Is the system rigged for the majority‚ or for those that break the law? Why are minorities more likely to be incarcerated? Is it because of the lack of education and parental support‚ living in poverty‚ socially and behaviorally challenged? Race-based differences in individual treatment are some of the most difficult challenges in American society

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    Prisons are already filled beyond maximum capacity‚ and we continue to keep incarcerating more people. What can be done to end the problem of prison overcrowding and maintain the safety of the public? I chose this topic because I wanted to shine a light on what I consider to be an injustice. I believe that the criminal justice system needs a complete overhaul. When I chose this topic‚ I wasn’t fully aware of the mandatory sentencing guidelines or how harsh they were. I always believed that judges

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    Minority Identity

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    policies that further the advancement of their group. Minority status is not just based on a numerical scale of how many people‚ whether it be whites‚ blacks‚ Latinos‚ Asians etc. are accounted for‚ but is classified more by the benefits and privileges offered to different groups. Historically‚ minority groups have been exploited by majority groups for economic gain. For example‚ the

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    Sex Minority

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    Adolescent Essay Sexual minority is a term to describe people that having sexual orientation‚ identity and behavior that is rarely appear in the norm or society or different from majority. Example of sexual minority included gay‚ lesbian‚ bisexual‚ and transsexual (LGBT) and definitely the majority will be heterosexual. However‚ the trend is changing as more and more people aware and accepts itself as homosexual. The subtle change in the ratio of the 2 populations had been brought a great reformation

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    Minority Dbq

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    WWII Minorities DBQ In the mist of the countries involvement in one of the most grueling wars in history new barriers were broken to make room for an equal America. Although true equality was not reached‚ these short four years would lead to the turning point in American acceptance toward diversity‚ both in and out of the work place. The movement of thousands of men overseas create a substantial gap in the work place‚ creating a never before seen chance for women‚ Blacks‚ and immigrants to flood

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