to meet this desired outcome. In 1972‚ federal and state prisons held 196‚000 inmates for a prison incarceration rate of 93 per 100‚000. In addition‚ about 130‚000 inmates were held in jails‚ resulting in about
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Nowadays we can find two main types of medicine: alternative medicine and conventional medicine. As far as I know alternative medicine includes practices that incorporate spiritual or religious basis. In contrast‚ conventional medicine includes scientific practises. Before making up our mind if we are for or against alternative medicine we are going to consider its advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand‚ some people think that alternative medicine is healthier because it relies on natural
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America has the highest prison population in the world‚ totaling to over 2.2 million people. That’s higher than the population of New Mexico. As for the reason why‚ the War on Drugs plays a big role‚ but For-profit prisons take the cake. For-profit prisons‚ also referred to as private prisons‚ are third-party prisons that are contracted by a government agency. Private prisons originally began to exist in a variety of forms in the 1800’s‚ however they largely disappeared from the 1920’s to the 1980’s
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Justice 20 February 2014 Alternative Sentencing and Diversion Programs There are many types of diversion programs and alternative sentencing. Some being more successful than others. It has been found that only nonviolent offenders have been positively affected by alternative sentencing and diversion programs. Violent offenders have shown to be unaffected by such programs. One of the most popular sentencing laws in the state of California is the Determinate Sentencing Law. This law places a shorter
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most brutal crimes committed in and out of prison have come as a result of prison gangs. Prison gangs have dangerous reputations and the deadlier a gang is known to be‚ the more evil it’s members are expected to be. Prison gangs compete for the most dangerous of reputation. Members of prison gangs such as the Texas Syndicate and Mexican Mafia are expected to commit terrible crimes in the name of the organizations cut-throat reputations Offenders join prison gangs for the convenience of power and the
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CRJU/210 Week 3 Assignment 1 Trends in Prison Sentencing Samantha Mullins Orscinil Beard October 23‚ 2014 Prison Systems How did Rhodes v. Chapman change the operations of prisons? Rhodes v.Chapman changed the operations of prisons by trying to control prison population. Rhodes vs. Chapman stated that two inmates being housed in one cell is not cruel and unjust‚ because the prisoners were out of the cells for most of the day. What is the general mission of most correctional agencies? The general
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medications that are considered to be Adderall alternatives. It’s true that stimulants are effective but these are substances that must be highly controlled. If not‚ they can be abused. This will result in some very serious health problems. Thus‚ it only makes sense to be educated on Adderall alternatives. Taking one alternative after the other is not practical. One must make sure what the side effects are of what one is taking. Adderall alternatives‚ therefore‚ cannot be obtained over-the-counter
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The private prisons industry is growing rapidly‚ in the year 2011‚ companies that were a part of the private prison industry brought in "$1.7 billion: [in] total revenue recorded by CCA" (Lee) and many have questioned the intentions of the companies that own and operate those facilitates. The history of private prisons can be traced "as far back as 1852 when San Quentin was the first for-profit prison in the U.S." (“Private Jails”). Private prisons did not become popular again until the 1980s‚ when
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The War on Drugs and Prison Overcrowding David Turner CCJ 1020 October 06‚ 2012 Overcrowding is one of the most difficult challenges that prison administrators face in the United States. There are many factors that that affect the constant flow of people being processed into today’s prisons. The “war on drugs” has led to more arrest and convictions that any other crime. The money spent on the prohibition of drugs and the law enforcement presence to stop drug trafficking raises high into the
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Prison Overcrowding Prison overcrowding is become one of the major financial and controversial problem in the United States. The prison population is increasing rapidly‚ and we have only one reason the judicial system is given length sentences to cases that don’t deserve it‚ for example most of the offenders in the United State prison are drug cases‚ these sentences must be considered and most of the drug offenders should be put in rehabilitation centers instead of putting them in prison. According
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