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    become successful. Strengths and Limitations Current research regarding overcrowding in prisons and jails is relatively limited in its scope. Most research focuses on only prisons and is primarily quantitative research. Quantitative research is incapable of examining personal opinions of inmates who serve time in overcrowded institutions; and ask whether or not inmates accredit their failure to rehabilitate to overcrowding. Qualitative research would help better understand how inmates perceive

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    Women in Prisons

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    reform: current issues in American punishment. Sudbury‚ MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning‚ 1994. Print. Strupp‚ Heidi. Solving California’s Prison Crisis Requires Smarter Approach. New America Media. March 27‚ 2010. Web. April 10‚ 2011 Vitiello‚ Michael. Addressing the Special Problems of Mentally Ill Prisoners: A Small Piece of the Solution to Our Nation ’s Prison Crisis. September‚ 2010. Web. April 10‚ 2011.

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    REDUCING ELECTROVISION ’S TRAVEL AND ENTERTAINMENT COSTS Prepared for Dennis McWilliams‚ Vice President of Operations Electrovision‚ Inc. Prepared by Linda Moreno‚ Manager Cost Accounting Services Electrovision‚ Inc. May 15‚ 2013 MEMORANDUM TO: Dennis McWilliams‚ Vice President of Operations FROM: Linda Moreno‚ Manager of Cost Accounting Services DATE: February 15‚ 2000 SUBJECT: Reducing Electrovision ’s Travel and Entertainment Costs Here is the report you requested January

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    released from prisons across the United States each year. Approximately two-thirds of those released are re-arrested and more than half are re-incarcerated three years after their original release (Cook‚ Kang‚ Braga‚ Ludwig‚ & O’Brien‚ 2014). According to Miller and Miller (2010)‚ “Re-entry is a general programmatic orientation to offender success more so than a specific treatment modality or intervention” (p. 894). Suggesting a need for successful re-entry programs to reduce the recidivism rate and assist

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    Educate a Convict‚ Close a Prison Door /They’re trying to build another prison/ For you and me to live in/ Another prison system/ for you and me/ Minor drug offenders fill your prisons you don’t even flinch/ All our taxes paying for your wars against the new non-rich/ All research and successful drug policy show that treatment should be increased/ And law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences/ In 2001‚ Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian‚ members of the band System of a Down

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    problem in America due to the rise in the prison population. The United States houses an estimated 2.5 million people behind bars. When given the task of incarcerating this amount of people‚ the state has only two options. The first option requires state employees being used to staff state run prisons with guards. The second choice is to contract a private corporation to staff and manage a prison and its population‚ otherwise known as Privatization. Prisons that are run by corporations will have a

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    Discount Rate

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    The discount rate Main article: Discount rate The rate used to discount future cash flows to their present values is a key variable of this process. A firm’s weighted average cost of capital (after tax) is often used‚ but many people believe that it is appropriate to use higher discount rates to adjust for risk or other factors. A variable discount rate with higher rates applied to cash flows occurring further along the time span might be used to reflect the yield curve premium for long-term

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    Kinetics 6.1 Rates of reaction 6.2 Collision theory 6 16.1 Rate Expression (AHL) 16.2 Reaction mechanism (AHL) 16.3 Activation energy (AHL) 6.1 Rates of reaction 6.1.1 Define the term rate of reaction. 6.1.2 Describe suitable experimental procedures for measuring rates of reactions. 6.1.3 Analyse data from rate experiments. © IBO 2007 Figure 601  An explosion is a quick reaction D ifferent chemical reactions occur at different rates (i.e. speeds). Some

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    A Positive Perspective on Prison Education Prison Education Many people would agree that continuing an education is key to surviving in society. Therefore‚ education is very vital for every individual to maintain‚ regardless of how or where they obtain it. Even though people believe that education is important‚ many people disagree with education being taught in prison. Prison education is providing inmates with an opportunity to enhance their education. They are offered general

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    Unemployment Rate

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    be defined as the number of people (of working age) who are willing and available to work at current wage rates‚ but not currently employed • Unemployment rate: the percentage of the labour force without a job but registered as being willing and available for work • Labour force: those people holding a job or registered as being willing and available for work • Participation rate: the percentage of the population of working age declaring themselves to be in the labour force TYPES

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