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    evaluating a literature piece for style one should analyze the following five elements: diction‚ images‚ details‚ language‚ and sentence structure. Two well-known American writers with completely different styles are Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Hemingway and Faulkner’s similarities and differences in style become apparent when comparing and contrasting two of their famous short stories‚ “A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway and “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner. Diction involve

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    Prison Overcrowding

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    Prison Overcrowding: Using Proposals from Nevada and California to Recommend an Alternative Answer” By: Casey Apao For: Dr. Sarri CSN Fall 2010 Dedication: “I‚ the undersigned‚ Casey Apao hereby certify that without the assistance of Henry Apao this Critical Thinking Scientific Paper wouldn’t be done.” Signed ‚ Casey Apao Disclaimer: “I‚ Casey Apao hereby certify that this Critical Thinking Scientific Paper is the result of my sole intellectual

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    parole. When any inmate has been given parole they have to be re- introduced to society. Some fortunately go back and adjust really well‚ while others not so much. Being incarcerated for years everything you once knew is not what it was when you went in. In this week’s assignment I will discuss basically what the reentry process is‚ how effective it is‚ and what is meant by program alignment. Reentry can be defined as the process in which a criminal has been incarcerated

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    Three inmates could be released from prison today. Two of them will end up right back in the system within three years. This statistic should be enough to conclude that America’s prison systems are failing miserably with the rehabilitation of inmates. How is it plausible for every correctional facility to think isolation‚ segregation‚ and overcrowding could possibly benefit the crime rate? Instead of converting these inmates into proper citizens‚ the system has found ways to hold them down. To suppress

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    Private Prisons

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    The concept of the prison has existed for more than two thousand years. It probably goes back as far in time as practice of cannibalism‚ where victims had to wait for their turn in contributing to the chief course in the menu of their captors. Examples of prisons can even be found in the Old Testament when Joseph was incarcerated in Egypt. It was not until the 19th century that a clear shift occurred from corporal punishment to imprisonment. As societies prospered and the industrial revolution began

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    Prison Break

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    Prison Break is an American television serial drama created by Paul Scheuring‚ that was broadcast on the Fox Broadcasting Company in four seasons‚ from 2005 until 2009. The series revolves around two brothers; one has been sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit‚ and the other devises an elaborate plan to help his brother escape prison. The series was produced by Adelstein-Parouse Productions‚ in association with Original Television and 20th Century Fox Television. Along with creator Paul

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    Prison Incarceration

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    However‚ due to the continued growth of the prison industry the social cost‚ children without parents‚ the decrease in educational opportunities‚ employment and home ownership has effected the poor but more specifically African-American males and their families. What is even more astounding is that other lucrative countries such as Canada and Italy are also experiencing a decline in crime rates without increasing their rates of incarceration. In California‚ 2011 that state started to reform their

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    Prison System

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    Prison inmates‚ are some of the most "maladjusted" people in society. Most of the inmates have had too little discipline or too much‚ come from broken homes‚ and have no self-esteem. They are very insecure and are "at war with themselves as well as with society" (Szumski 20). Most inmates did not learn moral values or learn to follow everyday norms. Also‚ when most lawbreakers are labeled criminals they enter the phase of secondary deviance. They will admit they are criminals or believe it when they

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    Women in Prison

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    New York Correction Officer‚ I am not shocked at what I see I am in awe. This facility housed approximately 800 inmates‚ these women were confined in in different parts of this huge facility‚ from the reception area where they stayed for the first two weeks upon entry to housing units as they were called. My reaction‚ to this awesome hell whole was something I shall never forget. I was on a cell block with eighty women between the ages of sixteen and fifty years old‚ actually there was only one inamte

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    Prison Overcrowding Prison overcrowding is a problem largely attributed to the increase of drug convictions. Decades of tough-on-crime laws coupled with minimal financing for treatment programs have left prisons overcrowded and under funded. With the advent of crack cocaine and the response of a scared nation President Ronald Reagan declared a war on drugs in 1982 (Clear‚ Cole‚ & Reisig‚ 2009). In 1987 congress implemented mandatory minimum sentencing effectively increasing the time

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