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    Racial Differences in the Corrections System “According to Black Star Project Executive Director‚ Phillip Jackson‚ in 2007 there were 321 African American men enrolled at Northwestern University (1.7 percent of the student body) but four times that number – 1‚207- imprisoned at Western Illinois Correctional Center (60 percent of the prison population)” (Walker‚ Spohn & Delone‚ 2012). This is only one example of the astounding percentage of young black men currently serving jail time as opposed

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    Ryan Ramsook January 19‚ 2011 Instructor Goldmeier American Corrections Phase 3 db The important source of correctional law according to my instructor she acknowledged that the bill of rights is very important basically that’s not only a source it’s a big one for our correction system throughout the United States (Bartollas‚ 2002). The prisoners from our system rights are strictly limited and rights that fall under the bill of rights in addition to the bill of rights must be important to them

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    Juvenile Justice Process and Corrections Lanika Alexander CJA/374 November 12‚ 2012 Deatrice Haney Juvenile Justice Process and Corrections When I first got picked up I was really scared but I knew what I had done was wrong. I had been breaking into houses for a while now. Always in and out real quick and I always picked the houses where I knew the owners were at work because they all lived on the same street as me so I knew their schedules as well as I knew my own. But this time it

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    Music Throughout the Years Music throughout the years has evolved from the renaissance to Rock-n-Roll and Hip-Hop. The music these days music these days are usually Rap‚ Hip-Hop‚ Rock-n-Roll‚ Christian Rock‚ and R&B. These types of music are not just listened to by random people they are listened to by people who love the sound or what the song is talking about

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    Check Point: Development of Corrections Tanita D. Wright September 13‚ 2011 What were women’s prisons like before the 1800s? How have they changed? • Women’s prisons before the 1800’s did not actually exist. The prisons were a mix of men‚ women‚ and children all together. In the 1800s woman that were in prison where treated just how the men were treated. The hard labor they had to endure was work such as sewing‚ cleaning‚ laundry and cooking. They were expected to act like ladies

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    Fashion and its Sense of Place Landscape was the first photographic genre‚ but how influential is it in contemporary fashion? Photographic genres are forever blurring and more than ever we are seeing photographs from fashion shoots ending up in prestigious galleries. My own work is heavily influenced by the use of people within the landscape‚ and while I am starting to experiment with fashion within different landscapes. This essay gives me the chance to explore the history of people within landscapes

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    Alcohol has been used for various kind of things throughout the history. Alcohol can be used as stimulant or anesthetic in medical fields as well as other uses in social communities. With suitable amount of usage‚ it can helps to promote positive emotion and relaxes the body of the consumer. This is where the problem of alcohol abuse arises. People become abusive of alcohol because of stressful urban lifestyle and believe that alcohol can help them to relieve from stress. In reality‚ excessive

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    The Continuing Problem with Cell Phones and Their Negative Effect on the Corrections and Criminal Justice Systems The Continuing Problem with Cell Phones and Their Negative Effect on the Corrections and Criminal Justice Systems Cell Phones are a forever growing epidemic around the world. Cell phones have quickly moved to an item of necessity in today’s world since its invention in 1973. The current generation of smartphones have various features that enhance the ease of organization

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    joyful approach to life is inspiring‚ despite the fact that he has lived most of his adult life as “a stateless refugee in India” (Beyond Religion‚ 2011). The Dalai Lama’s life path is endlessly uplifting as a humanitarian example and his role in modern history is difficult to overestimate. The Dalai Lama was born in 1935 to a family of poor farmers in Taktser‚ a small village in the Amdo province (From Birth to Exile‚ n.d.) of what was then known as Tibet. These humble beginnings contrasted starkly

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    It is the interplay of both history and memory‚ which allows us to gain empathetic understanding of Truth. History is factual‚ and traditionally objective‚ yet is subject to bias and control. It cannot reveal the reality of human experience‚ as it relies on facts‚ lists and statistics; the need for memory arises. Memory is a composition of personal perspectives which can be deemed subjective‚ yet challenges history’s authority and rationalism. Combined‚ history and memory generate a powerful tool

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