DeAndre Fontenot & kaestazia middleton Dr. Richardson LLS 1333 January 29‚ 2013 The U.S. Prison System The U.S. prison system was designed for a couple of reasons. First to keep cruel people off the streets and to punish people who have committed a crime. Next is Justice for the victims that have been violated‚ also revenge. Finally is to detest other crimes by setting sentence minimums and to rehabilitate people so they will come out a better person. It has changed a lot in the past 30 years
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English 101 Ms. Allred July 5‚ 2012 The German and American School Systems Although German students and American students start at around the same age‚ and both attend Kindergarten and their goals are the same‚ the school systems are very different. The German School System German children start Kindergarten at around the ages of four to six years old. They attend five days
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Reforms of the German education system: The abolition of the divided secondary school system and a prolonged integrated primary school In Germany at present six- to ten-year-old pupils visit primary school from first to fourth form. At the age of ten an allocation takes place: the pupils are divided into four groups depending on intelligence and achievements at school. The Gymnasium’‚ which is roughly equivalent to grammar school‚ is visited by the best ones‚ and their final examination after
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Drugs within the Prison System Socorro Pardo DeVry University Professor Wells October 12‚ 2012 Drugs in the prison system have been a problem for corrections personnel for many years. The problems with drugs in prison are different in many parts of the country but the question remains to be how the drugs get into the correctional facilities. The breakdown of the use and abuse of illicit drugs within the prison systems is being based on a worldwide issue. The issue with drugs in
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the private prison system by Burkhardt and Jones that sociologists and even criminologists realize the historical importance of the private prison systems. Established within the early 1980s‚ the introduction of the private prison systems became as a technique to reducing the amount of litigation and judicial oversight demonstrated to the inmates within the federal prison systems. The private firms (prisons) were established in order to provide superior conditions (as public systems) while also decreasing
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Prison systems have been an intricate part of American society for centuries. As early as the act of war‚ imprisonment has been used to incarcerate societal wrong doers until punishment was administered. American prison systems were initially modeled from British penal methods‚ as America is their daughter country. British law allowed for harsh punishments and conditions for prisoners. Punishments‚ such as stockades and/or whippings‚ were perceived as effective deterrents to crime. These penalties
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The Prison System- A “Market” for Profits Joseph Hallinan’s analysis‚ “Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation‚” helps to discern that the insatiable drive for profit is the prevailing reason for continued growth of the prison industry in the United States. Public values based on this drive have been supported by the avocation of a “free-market” model and capitalism in the prison system: “According to this ideology every individual pursues his or her own personal interests and the result
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The State and Federal Prison System Axia College Both state and federal prison systems have a long history in the United States as well as a significant presence in modern times as the prison populations for both state and federal prisons continue to grow. State and federal prisons each have their own types of institutions and security levels and house different types of criminals due to their differing jurisdictions over state versus federal prisoners. This paper
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State and Federal Prison Systems CJS/230 May 13‚ 2012 University of Phoenix State and Federal Prison Systems The United States has the highest‚ documented incarceration rate in the world (Wikipedia.2012.) Approximately 2.4 percent of the United States populations are currently incarcerated. Recently‚ there has been an estimated amount of 2‚266‚800 adults currently in prison in both State and Federal Prison Systems. In this paper‚ I will be talking about a State Prison System‚ “Louisiana State
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State and Federal Prison System CJS/230 In our prison system today there are state and federal prisons throughout the United States. Our prison system is based on the created of the nineteenth century prisons that were used. Prisons confined felons serving sentences longer than a year and those sentence to
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