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    Prison Education

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    A prison system which is first and foremost a place of punishment cannot be relied on to eliminate criminal behaviour. Only punishment without education could not teach the prisoners that their behaviours are criminal and harmful to the society; however‚ an appropriate education strategy could. Consequently‚ the recidivism can be reduced. For example‚ several criminals commit a crime because of a lack of law knowledge. If these prisoners could be educated what a crime is‚ they would not commit it

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    Overcrowded Prisons

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    Millions upon millions if Americans have been sent to prison without a victim ever claiming damages. It is important to look at the burden this mass level of incarceration places upon our society. Viewing the statistics‚ demonstrates just how the destructive mass of incarceration of victimless crimes have been high not only in women but in men as well. Drug offenses are self-explanatory as being victimless‚ but so are public order offenses‚ which also follows the victimless crimes. Public order

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    Torture In Prisons

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    detainee in prison‚ the detainee has the vital information to give regarding terrorist plots‚ and that the interrogation is under strict regulation and not out of control. This is not the case. In reality‚ innocent people are tortured‚ the information gained are lies‚ and

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    Violence In Prisons

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    1. Dean Spade‚ The Laws Will Never Make us Safe. “Some people who are identifying prisons and boarders as some of the most significant forms of violence that need to be opposed and resisted by queer and Trans politics‚ are calling for an end to all prisons.” The article is addressing issues of violence among individuals who become easy victims of hate crimes with in the criminal justice system. Much like how Queer and trans individuals are working towards trying to dismantle the racial identity

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    Disabilities In Prisons

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    People with disabilities are significantly overrepresented in the nation’s prisons and jails today. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that fully 1 in 5 prison inmates have a serious mental illness (Vallas‚ 2016). As a result of this increase in population‚ these facilities are inadequately funded and staffed to provide mental health treatment to prisoners who are sentenced as a result of their mental illnesses (Gilna‚ 2016). North Carolina is one state that is addressing this issue. In 2014

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    Private Prisons

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    Running head: PRISON PRIVATIZATION 1 An Assessment of Prison Privatization Sharon Baumann-Heller ORG 8575 Michael Mills August 12‚ 2012 PRISON PRIVATIZATION 2 Abstract Over-crowding in our federal‚ state‚ and local prisons‚ along with a depressed economy‚ has resulted in a trend toward privatization of these facilities. This paper examines the core issues surrounding private prisons in the areas of cost-effectiveness‚ recidivism

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    Ivan Denisovich essay In his 17th century pem‚ "To Althea from Prison"‚ Richard Lovelace tells us that "stone walls do not a prison make‚ nor iron bars a cage." Thus Lovelace introduces and makes the reader familiar with the paradoxical nature of freedom. This paradox is raised again when comparing two legitimate visions of the modern world: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich vividly describes

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    History of Prisons

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    The History of Prisons Both state and federal prisons were designed to serve the same purpose.   They are alike in the sense that they both confine criminals.   At the same‚ time there many differences in which make each system unique. State governments primarily operate both. Adults convicted of felony crimes may be imprisoned in one of the approximately 1‚800 state‚ federal‚ local‚ or private prisons in America. State prisons confine felons with more than a year to serve with an array

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    Stanford Prison

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    The Stanford prison experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment was conducted at Stanford University from August 14 to August 20 of 1971 by a team of researchers led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo. Philip Zimbardo is commonly known as the father of social psychology. He is also the author of the Lucifer Effect. A flyer was posted the common area of the Stanford University. It read as follows The original purpose of the experiment

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    Private Prisons

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    The use of private prisons are worth more than 70 billion dollars. The idea of private prisons came across in the United States in the early 1980’s. Although many people want to ban private prisons the United States should keep private prisons because of money‚ treatment‚ and economy. To begin‚ the use of private prisons save the state money‚ Private prisons allow the state to save money‚ Public prison endorse money from the state‚ on the other hand private institutions do not. “Ira P. Robbins

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