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State and Federal Prisons

largely attributable the "War on Drugs," which has tripled the number of inmates held since the 1980s (Foster, 2006). However, sin...

AN OVERVIEW OF COURTS: PHOENIX, ARIZONA

Congress the power to create lower federal courts (U.S. Courts, 2008). Under Congress, there are 13 U.S. Courts of Appeals, 94 U.S...

California's Emergency Services and its Relationship with the Federal Government

and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the South Pacific Division of the US Army Corps of E...

Canada's Federal Penitentiaries and Searching Visitors, Cells, and Inmates

Ron Wiebe (2000) flatly states that the major security problem that prisons face is "contraband control and the management of drug...

Evaluating the Fairness of Megan's Law

headline: "High-Risk Sex Offenders Identified: Post Reporter, 2 Ridge Residents on List" (Sheppard, 1997, p. 37). On July 7, Mei...

Prison Systems

Prisons are the way most of the world chooses to punish criminals for their crimes. The specifics of a prison, however, can...

Overcrowding in German Prisons

one third during this period ("Where is"). While this increase differed in severity between German states, all states experienced ...

Prison Labor in the United States: Capitalism or Slavery?

roots. Prison labor offers a way for prisoners to earn money while learning a trade, but with these prisons profiting on such chea...

The Prison-Industrial Complex and Its Consequences

This paper pertains to the subject of private prisons and their effects, which include large penalties to state if the prisons are...

The Prison-Industrial Complex and Its Consequences

This paper pertains to the subject of private prisons and their effects, which include large penalties to state if the prisons are...

Computer System Project

This 10 page paper looks at the way a project to install a computer system in a shop may be planned. The paper focuses ion the pla...

Federal Bureaucracy

order to coordinate the Union war effort (Federal Bureaucracy) It was in the nineteenth century that Western democracies began ...

Defense Offered by the OHS

In addition to duties of incident management, public affairs, and ensuring continuity at all levels of government, the OHS was ent...

Government and Health Care

This essay addresses five issues. The first section is a brief description of one of the recommendations from the IOM for nursing ...

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 ...

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...

HIV in the California Prison System

economic and historical issues surrounding the problem of HIV in prison. Perhaps one place to start is to look at the overall pro...

Criminal Justice V

offender and his history at the time of his arrest. Protection of society. This goal of sentencing is to remove the offend...

Overcrowding of Prisons

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

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...

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...

Prison Overcrowding, as a Flaw in Criminal Justice

This paper focuses on prison overcrowding as an ethical issue that affects the American criminal justice system Three pages in len...

Irrational Acts in Law Enforcement

There were major scandals at the Federal Bureau of Investigation's laboratory. False, inaccurate, and misinformation were all part...

CA Prison Health Care/Article Analysis

training" (Murphy, 2005, p. 23). As a prisoner, the author observed prison culture from the perspective of a participant. Various ...

HIV Positive Assessment Findings Summarized

can symbolize aspects of society that a community would just as soon forget, such as prison inmates. When social ills as poverty,...

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...

North Carolina Corrections

a variety of services are offered. These programs fall under the following general categories: work programs; educational programs...

Student Questions on State and Federal Judiciary Systems of the United States

al, 1998). These case will concern the interpretation of the law in important constitutional issues and the applications of feder...

Child Labor Practices Among Farm Workers in Florida

Labor Standards Act of 1938 (Smith, 1995). At the same time, children who work all around the nation are being either hurt or kill...