Should Drug Testing Be Mandatory For Welfare Recipients? Florida Governor Rick Scott made plans to test all welfare recipients to see if they are using drugs before they can receive payments is hardly saving the state any money‚ according to recent reports. At $30 per test‚ the state paid $28‚800 in drug test reimbursements (960 reimbursements at $30 each‚ since about 2 percent also didn’t finish the application process) for those who did pass‚ while saving themselves about $66‚000 in payments
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Should the Mandatory Life sentence for Murder be abolished? Murder carries a mandatory life sentence‚ under the Murder (Abolition of death penalty) Act 1965. This can but rarely does‚ mean that the offender will spend the rest of his natural life in prison. An offender given a mandatory life sentence who is released from prison will remain on licence for the rest of his or her life. The incident of Michael Barton who was racially motivated to murder Anthony walker aged 20‚ with an ice axe will face
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Why Vaccines Should Be Mandatory Crystal Hannah COMM / 215 Ms. Deborah Thompson Why Vaccines Should Be Mandatory In the last century diseases such as whooping cough‚ polio‚ measles‚ and rubella struck hundreds of thousands of infants‚ children‚ and adults in the United States. Thousands died every year from them not to mention the serious damage afflicted to the survivors such as‚ seizures‚ brain damage‚ or blindness. As vaccines were developed and used‚ rates of these diseases consistently
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Lelen H Lemou Click it or Ticket. Mandatory seat belt laws are very important to have in every city and state. A seat belt save lives and saves and lowers insurance rates. Some people argue that it is too much government involvement but it is important because more people die and are injured from car accidents in this country. It is important for government to impose strict penalties for those who do not wear their seatbelt. In many cases some people do not wear seat belts because they are travelling
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Mandatory minimum sentences are polices that require judges or juries to sentence convicted criminals to a minimum sentence irrespective of possible mitigating circumstances. Mandatory minimum sentences became increasingly popular as a result of the drug war‚ when both the federal government as well as states elected to enact mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders. California’s Three Strikes law was one of the most publicized of these laws. It required a mandatory 25-year to life
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training process; but real life situations would cause a more traumatic impact on one’s life. Police departments could take a lot away from this study. Being that many police officers go through different stages of trauma‚ all departments should have a mandatory trauma training before any officer is sworn in. Even though the training might not give them
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Engineers‚ as well as other professionals‚ have an important role in society. Their work is dedicated to properly and professionally serve and protect the public. The Mandatory Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for engineers in Ontario is a program aimed by Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO) to force licensed engineers to be continuously exposed to new knowledge and experience needed to cope with technological advances in order to strengthen their careers and to maintain competence throughout
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HIGHLITED TEXT- Added text/ Corrected Text Teacher: Ms. Price Crossed Out Text- Deleted/ Incorrect Text Course Code: SNC 2D1-7 Blue Highlite- Sounds odd Date Due: Thursday April 2nd‚ 2015 Organ and Tissue Donation Should Be Mandatory Once Deceased “You are going to need an organ transplant”. Many Canadians face this reality every day. The problem is‚ not all of them will receive a transplant. According to the Trillium Gift of Life unnecessary comma Network‚ there
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Mandatory and preferred arrest policies have been debated by both sides in terms of effectiveness and fairness. As it currently stands‚ 22 states have laws that include mandatory and preferred arrest policies. Statistical data has shown that since its implementation‚ arrests have significantly gone up. Comparing the 1970s and 1980s which was around 15% to the modern era with over 30% arrests made during a domestic violence call. Not only have arrests gone up but more specifically‚ female arrests
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Mandatory Minimum Sentences and Drug Policy Reform Andrew Foguth Davenport University Abstract The use of mandatory minimums within our judicial system is not winning the war on drugs. This country needs drug law reforms to turn the tide on the war on drugs‚ and minimize their impact on our society. This comes from rehabilitation programs that are more effective and less costly for our government. Introduction Our country has
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