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    Fees‚ race‚ work programs‚ laws‚ Juveniles‚ and justice are all components of what is known to America as the prison system. All of which contains both positive and negative aspect of the American penal system. When it comes to our prison system today there is an increased number of inmates. This is due to the prison industrial complex which is the rapid growth of prisoners in the United States of America due to pressure from private companies on political figures so companies can gain a profit.

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    Life in the Prison System

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    Heitz College Writing 6 May 2013 Life in the Prison System Prison is a place that nobody wants to be. Its a place which can hold anyone who has committed a crime no matter how serious. There are many different crimes that can land you in prison and unfortunately so many people have committed these crimes that our prisons are becoming overpopulated. These prisons all have different severities which the prisoners are to serve. Some prisons are meant to break you as to others which only serve

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    Life In Prison Essay

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    who killed a family‚ kids and all‚ deserve to rot and die in prison? Is it fair to a homeless man to live more meagerly than a convict? In a place like the United States where people have the freedom to speak their minds any topic is fair ground for debate. While the controversial issues like this one raise very diverse and sensitive perspectives from different groups of people. The amount of people that the United States puts into prison has always had a very strong group of opposition but a much

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    Introduction The overcrowding of prisons have become drastically overcrowded over the past years. The overcrowding of prisons have created a dangerous environment for the inmates. Being a growing concern‚ we want to look into the underlying problems that overcrowd prisons. Summary For this document analysis I chose took into and evaluate mass incarceration or as we call it- prison overcrowding. The documentary I watched and will be writing about was on “Mass incarceration in the united states”

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    Stanford Prison Study

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    significance of situational factors is the Stanford Prison study by Zimbardo (1971)‚ where the effects of empowerment on a person’s behavior were explored. The study involved 24 participants‚ selected from a larger pool of 70 undergraduate white male volunteers due to their lack of any criminal background‚ psychological and medical issues. The 24 participants were randomly divided into two groups; prison guards and prisoners. In a simulated prison environment‚ in the basement of Stanford university

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    Prison Health Care Michelle Harris HCS/430 February 9‚ 2015 Taryn Zubich Prison Health Care Health care is a major issue. The issue of health care‚ no matter who views‚ takes on many perspectives‚ however‚ the point of view of prison is a another world of its own. Federal and state laws in place states that correctional facilities and/or prisons must provide prisoners with medical facilities that would oversee their medical needs. This paper will identify a governmental

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    Privatized Prison System

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    Public or Privatized Prison Systems Phillip Ishee American InterContinental University Abstract This assignment will discuss two arguments that the public sector prisons can make to keep prisons in the public’s hands‚ while also discussing two arguments the private sector can make to get the prisons in their hands. This assignment will also discuss any legal issues of privatizing prisons and the challenges both private and public prisons face. During the course of a prison and its lifetime

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    Introduction Stern’s (2006) book‚ “Creating Criminals: Prisons and People in a Market Society”‚ gives us the black and white truth about important topics that are not usually talked about in the media‚ nor acknowledged by most in American society. The author explains that she is in no way defending criminals with her literature‚ rather researching and informing society about the ineffectiveness of the criminal justice system and the market society. She argues that many policies go in favor towards

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    Private Prison Industry

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    The Private Prison Industry Taylor Sourie 2/23/2012 On the surface‚ the private prison industry seems like a great idea. Advocates for private prisons argue that the use of these facilities can free up space in poorly funded state prisons‚ cost less to operate‚ and still hold the security and safety of inmates and staff at top priority. Unfortunately‚ that’s not how it usually works out. Large corporations like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) ‚ are looking to make a profit at the end

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    Mentally Ill in Prison

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    concerns and questions in the medical field about treatment of the mentally ill in the prison system. When a person with a mental illness commits a crime or break the law‚ they are immediately taken to jail or sent off to prison instead of being evaluated and placed in a hospital or other mental health facility. “I have always wondered if the number of mentally ill inmates increased since deinstitutionalization” Since prison main focus is on the crimes inmates are incarcerated; the actual treatment needed

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