In her article‚ she comments that “on the whole‚ people tend to take prisons for granted. It is difficult to imagine life without them” (Davis 15). Going back to Grewal’s argument‚ prisons are built with the purpose to ensure the safety of society. For security reasons‚ people tend to blindly trust the justice system‚ in the hopes that crimes will stop. One perfect example that
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(Glazer‚ 2017). Reform has been seen in prisons‚ such as‚ the one where Dan Pacholke‚ a prison administrator‚ works. He stated “We met violence with force and we met chaos with chaos” (Pacholke‚ 2014). After using these methods for years‚ seeing repeated offense‚ an employee said “your good at putting out fires‚ but have you thought about how to prevent them” (Pacholke‚ 2014). After this statement he started to seek to use new methods to the way he ran his prison. He found ways to give his prisoners
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Trust is an illusion‚ nothing more than a word‚ maybe even a trick to the drug dealing men of Mexico. The drug cartel leaders of Mexico’s most infamous cartels can really only trust themselves. The drug world is a dog eat dog kind of world. Chapo had enlisted the help of El Chito to escape Puente Grande‚ as he drove the getaway car. “...Chapo told the guard he was thirsty. El Chito went into a shop to buy him a bottle of water. When he got back to the car Chapo was gone (pg 31).” Chapo knew the more
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to drugs. The War on Drugs started in the 1970s. It’s the government’s work to fight drug misuse and trafficking. Prez Nixon made this term popular. This has changed a lot over the past 50 years due to social and pull factors. This looks at how the War on Drugs began‚ its effects and if it works. Drugs go back to the 20th century. In the US‚ rules have been introduced for narcotics. The first drugs were herbs‚ plants‚ roots‚ vines‚ and fungi. Anyone could grow these? But‚ Nixon made the "War on Drugs"
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Chronicle: Federal Judge Orders Texas Prisons System to Provide A/C for Heat-Sensitive Inmates at Pack Unit The discussion in this article is the conditions that the Texas prison system impose on the inmates as in relation to providing adequate air-conditioning‚ especially for those inmates that are seniors and those that have medical issues. The controversy is the inmates fill that enough is not being done by the Texas prison system to provide air conditioning
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PRISIONS -OVERCROWDING AND THE BIRTH OF AB109 Introduction Due to the passing of the Tthree -Sstrikes Llaw‚ California State prisons have become increasinglyen overcrowded. The enactment has caused a snowball effect of pandemonium throughout the sState from politicians‚ social scientists‚ activists‚ prison inmates‚ and a number of lobbyists. My paper will discuss the history of punishment and imprisonments‚ the Tthree Sstrikes Llaw‚ system capacity‚ overcrowding of prison overcrowding‚s and their
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Mexico’s War on Drugs Sinaloa is the hometown of the “Sinaloa Cartel” ran by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman it’s labeled as the biggest as well as the most powerfullest cartel. Sinaloa is known as the “The Drug Capital of Mexico.” Not only is it just the Sinaloa Cartel there are other major cartels involved in the War on Drugs. And other trafficking methods are convoluted. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman the head of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel was born in Badiraguato Mexico. His life was shaped by his family’s
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Prisons Act 2007 This Act provided for the establishment of the Office of the Inspector of Prisons‚ the contracting out of prisoner escort and transfers‚ construction and extension of prisons and also for the authority to draft new prison rules which resulted in the Prison Rules 2007. Privatisation of prisons was never introduced. The privatisation model was used instead to build prisons‚ using the public-private partnership model. Despite the plans to build new prisons and the accommodation issues
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different people are affected by this war‚ especially because it does not occur in just one place. The war is all over the country‚ at the border‚ in the cities‚ and in smaller rural towns as well. Because of this we see men‚ women‚ children‚ and elderly affected all the same. Perhaps men are more involved in direct‚ violent crimes‚ but women‚ children‚ and elderly all are affected the same. Women are losing their husbands‚ as they are often killed‚ or they are sent to prison for many different reasons. Children
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Mexico ’s Drug War: Defined by Corruption The following publication is rife with manipulation and corruption of Mexico ’s highest regarded political positions and jurisdictions. Former Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado officially declared drug trafficking a national security threat in early 1988. The United Nations estimate that 70% of the drugs flowing into the United States comes directly from Mexican drug trafficking cartels. Mexican cartels rely heavily on bribes and corruption
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