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Contemporary Prisons and Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

Damiens, was executed in this manner on March 2, 1757. The records of this execution appear to be quite detailed, as Foucault rela...

Private Prisons and Ethical Issues

on whether one is a consumer, or customer of a given business product, or whether one is an employee, and working within the syste...

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...

Short Eyes by Miguel Pinero

In five pages this paper discusses how the concepts featured in Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault ...

Story of the Boston Strangler

In twelve pages this paper examines the alleged Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo's tale that includes his victims, confession, his ...

Opposing Capital Punishment

In six pages this report presents a moral argument in opposition of the death penalty and also considers how a greater crime deter...

Prison Overcrowding

is interesting to note that while increased efforts to incarcerate people have not proven necessarily effective, there are still m...

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 ...

Contents of Speech for Fictitious Candidate Jeff 'W.' McIllwain

In eleven pages prison reform and racism issues are addressed by a fictitious candidate in the year 2011 a year after the stock ma...

Prison Inmates and Ethics

its professionals values to be a "cut above" its own. In terms of the prison environment, we know that our current United State...

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...

Explaining the Sagging Jeans of Generation X

In seven pages white America's sagging jeans' trend is chronicled from inside prisons to external society in both the suburbs and ...

Marijuana and the Advantages of Legalization

This paper consists of ten pages and discusses how legalizing marijuana would carry with it the advantages of crime reduction, pri...

Prison Tuberculosis, HIV, and AIDS

In this paper consisting of eight pages there is background information on HIV, AIDs, and tuberculosis in the prison system provid...

Incarceration and Morality

be addressing morality, with little mention of religion, for morality must be accepted and embraced in society regardless of relig...

Interrogation Policy Analysis and Abu Ghraib Prison Prisoner Torture

in the abuse at Abu Ghraib. Although attempts have been made to blame this abuse on "low-level personnel" at the facility rather ...

Criminal Justice Issues

brings up the question as to "What kind of society could justify locking up so many of its young men," who are the principle demo...

Prison and Cell Phones

or orchestrate the smuggling of more contraband" (16). In another state, the state of Arkansas, "Prison officials...see the spread...

Overview of Behind a Convict's Eyes

of ethnic minorities in the prison system in the modern era. In his work Stigma: Notes on the Management of Soiled Identity, Goff...

Austin H. MacCormack and Thomast Mott Osborne

hesitate to say what he believed and never compromised" (Thomas Mott Osbornes Within Prison Walls). In 1913, Osborne "was appoi...

Case Study on Prison Reform

care is a basic survival need. Without adequate health care, they could and sometimes do die. There is empirical evidence that the...

Long Term Solitary Confinement and Its Mental Health Impact

Prisoners spend as much as 22 hours a day in their cells, and the cells are now overcrowded (Weinstein and Cummins). The prisoner...

Three Strikes Law in California

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

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,...

America's 'Super Maximum' Prison Security

held in similar conditions of extreme confinement" (pp. 26). Abramsky details those numbers further by adding that, as of 2000, Te...

Social Control Problems

three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed into the cultures mainstream. They manipulate this so that the...

Prison Privatization Argument

Seligman states that, "Perhaps 20,000 prisoners a year are getting out under early release programs....The criminal justice system...

California's Young White Males

one more campus for the University of California system (Malveaux, 2001,p.32). The prison building has disturbed the sensibilitie...

'Cruel and Unusual Punishment' and the 8th Amendment

punishment.iv It was a close vote of 4 to 3, which means that not all justices on that court believed electrocution to be cruel an...

Overview of Incarceration

to incarceration, and how effective those are as well. But before we begin, there are a few things we need to address...