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    Special Needs Prisoner

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    Needs Prisoner David Thompson University of Phoenix Special Needs Prisoner The American penal system is comprised of every element of society imaginable. There are people from all walks of life being held in one prison or another across our great country for crimes they’ve committed or allegedly committed against mankind. Be it at the state‚ federal or county level‚ the U.S. prison system does not discriminate with regards to those who are physically challenged. Be it a prisoner who is

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    Outline Introduction Background of the prisons Lifestyle prisoners spend in there Behavior of Past Criminal The behavior of prisoners after getting free They perform shameful acts Discussion Covers problems of criminals who integrate with the society and the justice they get Problems Overall situation that criminals face during reintegration There are more people who find difficulty settling down Restorative Justice The justice that people get during reintegration with the society Conclusion

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    The Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat is a story of young girl who was born in 1965 in Tehran‚ Iran. Her father was a dancer while her mother was a hairdresser. Marina in her young days liked to dance‚ have fun at the beach and liked to spend time with her friends and crush Andre who she met in the church. She was brought up in an orthodox Christian family and went to a school with majority of Muslims in it. Religion was never a matter of concern back in the early days when Nemat went to school

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    special need inmates affect the jail and prison system‚ both on a federal and state level would be because of the specialized attention in which they require. If these prisoners are not given the proper attention that is needed for their disability‚ they can because a danger to not only themselves but to everyone around them; those who have a substance abuse related illness may even become sick and possibly die from lack of care for their addiction. The way that special needs inmates affect both the

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    sentenced to execution it is decided by the criminal justice system‚ not the medical community. The justice system views these peoples’ social worth as so low that they deserve to die for the crimes they have committed. “The state’s determination of social worth only finds that the condemned prisoner no longer deserves life—a far higher bar than a determination that he or she is no longer worthy of healthcare prior to death”(646). In the medical community‚ the goal is to save lives. Appel also points

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    A Prisoners Tale of Prison

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    A Prisoners Tale of Prison A Prisoners Tale of Prison A prison is a penal institution administered by the state or federal government. It is a place for the confinement of persons convicted of criminal offenses and is therefore part of a larger penal system‚ which includes other aspects of criminal justice such as courts‚ law enforcement‚ and crime labs. Nevertheless‚ many people are critical of the US’s prison system the idea of locking up those who commit crimes against a society simply to

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    McLeaod (2008) determined how individuals conform to the roles of prisoner and guard using a role-playing experiment. Past studies have shown that prison guard’s cruelty is due to dispositional and environmental factors. Guard and prisoners have personalities that lead to conflicts. Prisoners lack respect for order and law while the guards are considered violent and domineering. On the other hand‚ guards and prisoners behave in an hostile way because of the inflexible power structure found in the

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    understand the term political prisoner narrowly‚ equating it with the term prisoner of conscience (POC). Amnesty International campaigns for the release of prisoners of conscience‚ which include both political prisoners as well as those imprisoned for their religious or philosophical beliefs. To reduce controversy‚ and as a matter of principle‚ the organization’s policy applies only to prisoners who have not committed or advocated violence. Thus‚ there are political prisoners who do not fit the narrower

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    Are we or are we not the prisoner or our own conceptions? In the cave allegory‚ Plato describes the human condition as a type of blissful ignorance. I agree with Plato that we are prisoners of our own belief. In this essay‚ I describe my own opinions and issues to answer some of the questions. The first question that I would like to discuss is‚ Are we prisoners to our own beliefs and notions of truth? I believe that we are prisoners to our own beliefs because since childhood different beliefs

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    War Prisoner Of War

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    The prisoners of war were not treated in accordance with the international agreements. They were complaining about starvation and malnutrition and there were some Japanese who were claiming that the Japanese Army had tried to do their best to service the foods to the Prisoners of War while they were in the camp. What is it like to be a prisoner of war? When you are a Prisoner of War you have to do everything that you are told to do. Often times the Prisoners of War were treated poorly by their captors

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