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    Vivien took on the challenge of expanding not only her restaurants‚ but she is also expanding Jamaican cuisine‚ one new customer at a time. Vivien now has three Top Tastes: two in America and one in Jamaica. This restaurant is helping to translate a culture through food‚ and they do this well. Vivien is a real character that you can have a good laugh with and being from Jamaica herself‚ she’s a wealth of knowledge all things Jamaican if you’re curious to know. One of her main goals is to get Jamaican

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    Overpopulation in the Prison System Overpopulation in the Prison System has been a growing concern in society. An explanation for this is the rise in crime over the past years. As the crime rate increases so do the amount of convictions‚ which leads to more incarcerations and overpopulation in the Prison System. The cause for the increase in crime over recent years has been partly attributed to the disappearance of jobs. Many people have been victims in the struggle to find jobs. When faced with

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    A Look at Racial Disparity in the United States Prison System Micah O’Daniel Institutional Corrections 2/22/11 Racial inequality in the American criminal justice system has a strong effect of many realms of society such as the family life‚ and employment. Education and race seem to be the most decisive factors when deciding who goes to jail and what age cohort has the greatest percentage chance of incarceration. Going to prison no longer affects just the individual who committed the crime

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    U.S. Prison Costs After reading the essay‚ “A Homemade Education‚” an autobiography of Malcolm X‚ I became quite curious about how many dollars America spends toward the prison system and how it affects our society. The autobiography itself covers how Malcolm X gained a homemade education simply by reading books while serving time in prison. He claimed‚ “I don’t think anybody ever got more out of going to prison than I did…prison enabled me to study far more intensively…sometimes as much

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    sentences with the possibility of no parole along with counseling and rehabilitation. Many believe that putting an adolescent in prison with a life sentence is a cruel and unfair punishment. In the past couple of years‚ the law changed to place underage delinquents in rehabilitation centers or juvenile hall for no more than a year rather than prison. Placing a youth in a prison is said to have a negative affect on the child‚ making parents afraid to have their teenagers locked away‚ even after committing

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    Elderly People In Prisons

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    Audience: correctional staff Subject: Should prisons allow elderly people to be released and be under supervised parole for the rest of their lives. Author’s/Speaker’s Main Purpose or Claim: We will save money if it is possible and elder people leave the jail to avoid the necessary training for correction officers‚ “the costs of medication and accomadations throughout the prison such as wheelchair accesability and units with lower bunks.” Author’s/Speaker’s Tone (Tone=how the author/speaker feels

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    Fees‚ race‚ work programs‚ laws‚ Juveniles‚ and justice are all components of what is known to America as the prison system. All of which contains both positive and negative aspect of the American penal system. When it comes to our prison system today there is an increased number of inmates. This is due to the prison industrial complex which is the rapid growth of prisoners in the United States of America due to pressure from private companies on political figures so companies can gain a profit.

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    Mentally Ill in Prison

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    concerns and questions in the medical field about treatment of the mentally ill in the prison system. When a person with a mental illness commits a crime or break the law‚ they are immediately taken to jail or sent off to prison instead of being evaluated and placed in a hospital or other mental health facility. “I have always wondered if the number of mentally ill inmates increased since deinstitutionalization” Since prison main focus is on the crimes inmates are incarcerated; the actual treatment needed

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    documented fact that inmates who regularly correspond with their family members do better with reform programs offered to them. Additionally‚ the convict’s interaction gives them motivation and inspires them to stay on the positive path toward leaving prison and perhaps even an early relief. Depending on the state and facility where the prisoner is housed the family is left with a hefty bill. Prisoners pay up to $10-$14 every minute they talk to a father‚ mother‚ sister or brother while incarcerated

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    Prison Reform in America

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    Prison "Reform" in America In the essay "Prison "Reform" in America‚" Roger T. Pray points out the much attention that has been devoted to research to help prevent crimes. Showing criminals the errors of their ways not by brutal punishment‚ but by locking them up in the attempt to reform them. Robert Pray‚ who is a prison psychologist‚ is currently a researcher with the Utah Dept. of Corrections. He has seen what has become of our prison system and easily shows us that there is really no such thing

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