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    enterprise is no stranger to the American prison. When the United States replaced corporal punishment with confinement as the primary punishment for criminals in the early nineteenth century‚ the private sector was the most frequent employer of convict labor. Prisoners were typically either leased to private companies who set up shop in the prison or used by prison officials to produce finished goods for a manufacturer who supplied the raw materials to the prison. The former arrangement was called

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    Drug Abuse In Prisons

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    significantly increased over the last two decades. Using drugs inside a prison is a terrifying thing to think about. How is it that under the order of law and in a highly restricted environment‚ drug use is still possible? It is due to a number of reasons: overcrowded prisons‚ stealthy smuggling‚ concealed manufacturing‚ prison gangs and corruption. Some of the ways drugs are smuggled into prison‚ is by human bodies. The drugs can also be thrown over the prison walls in tennis balls‚ dead birds‚ footballs

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    For a long time‚ private prisons have brought a lot of questions to the people in general about wondering if it’s useful and they still exist nowadays. The industry of this type of prisons is considered expensive‚ dangerous and unsuccessful for the prisoners which leads the people to think it’s not worth having those prisons. There is only 11% of the inmates that is allocated in private prisons so approximatively 22‚000 people. The public prisons try to send more prisoners into the private

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    Mase Prison Escape

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    2:30 pm on Sunday‚ September 25 prisoners seized control of H7 the prison officers where taken hostage at gunpoint in order to prevent them from triggering an alarm One officer was stabbed with a craft knife‚ Another was knocked down by a blow to the back of the head. One officer who attempted to prevent the escape was shot in the head by Gerry Kelly‚ but survived. 2:50 pm on Sunday‚ September 25 prisoners were in total control of H7 without an alarm being raised dozen prisoners took

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    Irish Prison System

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    The current prison population is 4‚ 306. That’s an estimated 282‚ 000‚000 of the tax payers money spent on prisons in Ireland per annum. Introduction This Irish prison system consists of 15 different institutions. This is made up of eleven traditional ‘closed’ prisonstwo ‘open’ prisons‚ a training prison and a prison for young offenders. All of our prisons are termed medium-low security‚ apart from Portlaoise prison; a male only prison and our countries only high security prison. The purpose

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    Gender Roles In Prisons

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    human beings is a primary component to living. Regardless of where humans are located‚ communication is required to survive. My interest in collaboration is further indulged when studying prisons. Every prison is different; the means of survival and interaction varies. A woman who has lived the experience a female prison is known as a survivor‚ and she is now an activist for women’s rights. Her name is Piper Kerman‚ and many people may know her as the individual who influenced the Netflix show “Orange

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    Effects of Aging in Prison

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    Effects of Aging in Prison Wanda W. Jones Webster University Table of Contents Objective 3 Aging in Prison Literature Review 4 Participants 13 Measurement 14 Survey and Data Collection Tool 15 Data Collection Method 18 Analysis 19 Schedule 20 Budget 21 Institutional Review Board 23 Peer Review 24 Objective This research proposal will be on the aging prison population. The topic to be explored will be the impact of the elderly in prison on society. It will attempt

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    Medical Debt In Prisons

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    Hospitals‚ prisons and other community service agencies‚ in addition to being landing pads for those with mental illness‚ also contribute to the problem of homelessness through mounting debt and inadequate discharge planning. Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy and contributes to housing instability in 27% of people struggling with medical bills (Pollitz et al. n.p.). Even among individuals with private health insurance‚ those with “out-of-pocket medical expenses that exceed five percent

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    Throughout human history‚ prisons have been portrayed as institutions that are set to protect the masses‚ and punish those that need to be punished. However‚ by analyzing the prison system‚ the fact of the matter is that prisons exist to protect dominant groups and vilify and criminalize minority groups. This is an evident and clear fact that can be seen through the numerous statistics that support the fact that visible minorities and racialized individuals are incarcerated at alarming rates‚ compared

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    Prison System

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    I don’t think one system is better than the other system both may have a positive effect on criminals. It just depends on what the crime is if is a less severe crime than prisoners should be put in the South Dakota system. Where they help prisoners find a good outcome out of the situation and lets them see that there’s so much more than going to jail. For criminals that have a severe crime than they should be put in the tent city system because they have to learn their punishment. Many of the people

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