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Overcrowding in Prisons

fewer than 200,000 inmates (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). The Washington Post reported on December 1, 2006 that the U.S. prison...

Analysis of "Are Prisons Obsolete?"

10). The fact is that we do indeed lock away two million American citizens and in so doing have come to be the...

Issues of Concern to Prison Inmates

a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...

Criminal Law, Identity And Culture

Social Control theories are two in particular where crime, culture and identity intersect, the former of which asserts how everyon...

Punishment and Prisons in England During the Victorian Age in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...

Worldwide Prison System Ineffectiveness

it seems that police pursue black people more often. The old "driving while black" mentality seems to be present in America today....

Corrections System of Germany

In five pages this paper examines 2 principles regarding the prison systems of the United States and Germany with similarities and...

Political Questions

U.S. Constitution makes the President, a civilian leader, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Militia. While the Presiden...

Lowell System

single location" (Francis Lowell, 2001). Contemporary commentary on the way in which Lowells first factory seemed to spring up ov...

Texas Railroad Commission

track in Texas and nine railroad companies. Five of these companies were centered in the Houston area, and all but one served a se...

Racial Issues in San Antonio, Texas

the media, do not necessarily broadcast racial tensions. But, one can surely envision that with the high profile of issues concern...

Texas and Illinois Governmental Differences

even to this day (Ginsberg et al, 2001). There really is no "common political culture," and this is a state of huge economic diver...

Texas State Legislature and Congress

subsequently submitted to the voters for their approval (Texas State Government, 2001). Like most other states, Texas employs a...

Comparative Analysis of the US Constitution and the Texas State Constitution

In 3 pages the state of Texas' constitution is compared with the US Constitution and argues that the American Constitution is supe...

Integrating Information about Violence in Prisons

2009). During this incident, 32 inmates and 11 guards were killed. In 1980 there was a riot in a prison in New Mexico that took ...

Comparing Two-Year Colleges

Two-year public colleges are more often referred to as community colleges. In recent years, their funding has been cut just as it ...

Prison Violence

home (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2001). Those who live in poverty have always been the victims of the most violenc...

The Importance of Prison Reform

Indeed, the law is not perfect, which is why the average citizen should care about the prison system. Even if they do not break th...

Solutions for California Prison Overcrowding

The War Against Drugs has had a number of effects in this country. One of the more apparent of those effects...

Challenges for the Criminal Justice Administrator

executive officer (CEO) of a small corporation (Dennis, 1999). For example, a "typical medium security prison houses 1,300 inmates...

Overcrowding of Prisons

Building the new prison was supposed "expunge a stigma" from the state, and "Maine officials expected the savings in operating exp...

State of California and the Problem of Prison Overcrowding throughout the United States

p. 3569). Privately subsidized prisons have become a popular consideration as a means by which to offset the exorbitant amo...

English and U.S. Prisons

Sasse, 2007). Type of system/Management: One of the most important differences between the two countries, and once which has a di...

The Model of the Canadian Health Care System and its Application in Other Regions of the World

health insurance through the government, "when we go to access it, its just not there" (Duff-Brown, 2005). But what about th...

The Superiority of Missouri's Prison and Parole System

to be the case in areas that are extremely populated. In certain venues, this is not the case but rather, there is greater attenti...

Swedish and American Prison Systems

them locked up securely; however, they also note there is a need "to stick with our philosophy of humanization" (Alvarez, 2005). T...

Problems in Case Management and Scheduling

and judges are able to conclude the cases more quickly when there are fewer continuances. Though a case may be continued for othe...

Prison Issues as They Pertain to Female Prisoners

This research paper consists of six pages and considers abuses in the prison system with regards to women's treatment with such is...

Minorities and Prisons

at a full 25% above their capacity (McMurry, 1997). Though some have blamed increased recidivism rates and decreasing prison effe...

Prison System and Drug Programs

In ten pages prison systems and drug use are examined in a discussion of penal system drug addiction program implementation. Four...