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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...

Conducting Drug-Use Research/Texas Prisoners

first institution listed in regards to male offenders, which is the James V. Allred prison unit, located just outside of Wichita F...

The Problem of Sexual Predators

these miscreants. However, it is often the case that the punishment is not enough. Sexual predators-until more credible research i...

Voices from the Cell Block

the federal courts to mandate minimum rights for prisoners" (Platt, 1999, p. 237). But by the 1990s, prison reform had died out a...

Overcrowding in Prisons

This essay pertains to overcrowding in America's prisons and the injustices associated with prison labor. Recommendations are offe...

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...

Young Americans, Victims of the Prison-Industrial Complex

This 4 page paper gives an explanation of how young people are affected by the prison industrial complex. This paper includes how ...

Prison-Industrial Complex and American Youth

This 4 page paper gives an explanation of how young people are affected by the prison industrial complex. This paper includes how ...

Recidivism and Prisons

prisoners at Guantanamo is allowed to sit outside in the sun and interact with other prisoners through a chain-link fence for four...

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...

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...

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...

Prison Society and Culture

considered weak and pathetic. In particular, those who are pedophiles stand a very real chance of being killed, maimed, raped and ...

Prison Overcrowding

judges who rule that jails are overcrowded create a situation there the county or jurisdiction must act quickly. Overcrowding is q...

America's First Prisons

This paper examines the very first prisons in America, and discusses the drastic differences between early and modern prison facil...

Life or Death and Cost Effectiveness

This research paper adresses the fact thaty it is far more costly to house and feed criminals for life than it is to sentence them...

U.S. Nuclear Family and Poverty

In ten pages this paper discusses the nuclear family's role in U.S. poverty with the Culture of Poverty and various other theories...

North Africa, the Middle East, and Poverty

In sixteen pages this paper discusses the regions of North Africa and the Middle East as they involve poverty issues with regional...

St. Francis and Previous Monks on the Concept of Christian Poverty

"On arriving in a certain town, being very hungry, they went, according to the Rule, begging their bread for the love of God....

Poverty and Children

the Institute on Race and Poverty (2000), an area of "concentrated poverty" occurs when forty percent or more of the population of...

A Poverty Explanation

In nine pages the reasons why poverty exists are probed with a culture of poverty thesis, the importance of a work ethic with refe...

Contemporary Society and Poverty Causes

the student to consider the fact that those in poverty typically do not have many of lifes basic necessities, such as enough food,...

World Poverty and Globalization

restructuring of the global economy which was so desperately needed in 1944, and the General Agreement on Trades and Tariffs desig...

Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction

population. Roosevelt called for "a decent standard of living for all individual men and women and children." He said, "Freedom fr...

Poverty and the Role of Education

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at global poverty. Efforts to fight poverty through education are examined. Paper uses ...

Fighting Global Hunger

a major concern for not only national leaders but individuals, activists and support groups as well. For decades now, people have ...

Definitions of Poverty and its Effects

to the industrial subsistence patterns of today. If we define poverty from a strictly numeric perspective, as the so-called "pove...

Global Poverty Reduction

International releases an annual Corruption Perception Index, which does not seek to measure actual levels of corruption present i...

Schools, Families and Poverty

lived within the poverty level in 1994 (Rigsby 12). This is based on the designation made by the federal government that any fami...