Hanoi Hilton was one of the most well known prison that held prisoners of war during the Vietnam War (Ruanyin). The name of Hanoi Hilton was came from the American GIs. “To the Vietnamese‚ the prison was known as Hoa Lo” (McMahon‚ Mary). The name Hanoi Hilton may sound a little luxurious but it actually a place that had full of brutal‚ torture‚ dirty‚ and dark in the history. First of all‚ the Hoa Lo prison had been around over a hundred years ago. It was constructed or built by the French arounds
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specifically. This study will examine the effectiveness of current prison treatment programs in Australia‚ New Zealand‚ South East Asia‚ United States of America in rehabilitating or reforming an individual and coinciding recidivism rates upon a prisoners release. Prison based treatment programs for sex offenders in Western Australia‚ New South Wales and New Zealand are examined and recidivism rates compared. Treatment programs for offenders with drug and alcohol issues and the various strategies
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became a more solid idea that began to take shape. Ideals of a penitentiary A penitentiary was meant to be secular and spiritual (Foster‚ B.‚ 2006). A penitentiary was supposed to be a clean‚ healthy place for inmates to serve their time and to be treated in a human way. Most importantly‚ a certain punishment and a place to pay penance for their crimes. Goals of a Penitentiary A penitentiary was built upon religious beliefs. A penitentiary had one main goal. This goal was to give a criminal a secluded
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The ongoing debate about how women prisoners ought to be treated relative to their male counterparts will be a failure if it does not lead us to reconsider the predicates of the largely ineffective correctional system now in operation ... working through the problems of gender in the correctional system represents a terrific opportunity to rethink global correctional objectives‚ assess the utility of the approaches that have been tried‚ and refresh our thinking about what is likely to prove useful
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wisdom of Plato‚ his teacher and the philosophers of his time. The story’s meaning and lessons are as significant today as they were then‚ and its inclusion in The Republic is well earned. The intentions of Plato in sharing this story seem to be fairly simple. As with all of the works that he included in The Republic‚ he is attempting to convey a message that relates to government and leadership. I also believe that this story conveys a message to‚ not just leaders‚ but people in general. The message
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Quakers entry into the penal system‚ criminals were abused at the hands of both formal and informal governments. Punishment included branding‚ mutilation‚ whipping and other harsh punishments. Under the Pennsylvania system‚ prisoners are housed in individual cells. Prisoners are required to engage in unpaid laborious service for as long as he or she is housed in the government run institution.
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occurred in the Americas. Black slavery‚ by far‚ was one of the cruelest‚ most brutal‚ demolishing slavery that ever existed. Taken from their land of Africa and forcefully being brought to the Americas in chains tied around their hands and feet as prisoners has had to be one of the most frightening‚ disturbing catastrophes of a black slave’s life. To simply go from a familiar language‚ custom‚ tradition and even food to go to a foreign land where language isn’t understood‚ custom and tradition are different
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convict camps rather than on chain gangs. As a result‚ freed slaves would be required to perform the same work they had been performing now‚ for free. They where also unable to leave the premises and required to live in stockades with the other prisoners. They often experienced physical punishment such as beatings for failure to complete their work quota. The criminal justice system took advantage of the indigent African American in order to fill the American Prison
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consolidate his own power‚ because of theca that he personally had overthrown a government‚ and so he understood how that might happen. Through consolidating his own power‚ Napoleon created a new‚ liberal country where justice was served fairly and all the people were treated with equality- something that could not have been accomplished had Napoleon not controlled the country through a dictatorship. However‚ Napoleon’s reign was not a complete‚ true dictatorship; Much of his rule
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One such thing that was the same throughout both was the amount of cruelty that the prisoners were forced to go through. They were mentally and physically tortured‚ starved‚ and treated very poorly overall. A major difference between the movie and the novel at this point was the arrival of the "Bird." The "Bird" was a nickname given by the prisoners to a particularly cruel officer named Watanabe Mitsushiro. In the movie‚ the "Bird" was already stationed at the camp
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