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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country. Given this‚ the increasing amount of militarization of police and the increase in paramilitary police units has called for reform across the nation. Evaluating the appropriate use for these units‚ including proper roles and deployment conditions‚ are valuable points of reform. Additionally‚ viewing the impact on the relationship between society and police‚ as well as consequences of the elevated number of paramilitary police units in the country are valuable sources of insight regarding reformation
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The term police state describes a state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social‚ economic and political life of the population. A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism and social control‚ and there is usually little or no distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive. Pierre Claude‚ R. "Human Rights and Statistics". University of Pennsylvania Press The inhabitants of a police state experience restrictions
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between the federal budget and the state and local budgets is the issue of a monetary deficit‚ in which expenditures in the budget exceeds revenues that were estimated. State and local governments are required to balance their budgets. The federal government is allowed to borrow money to meet its obligations and have a deficit. The federal government collects the most tax revenue‚ but state and local governments have a greater range of revenue options for funding their budgets. The federal government
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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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Describe and evaluate Milgram’s agency theory [12] Milgram’s agency theory basically states that you the state of mind you are in determines if you’re obedient or not. He argued that normally we operate in the autonomous state‚ where you assert control over yourself and what we do. An example of this is when faced with danger‚ most people will turn away to try and avoid conflict. Even if you decide not to walk away‚ this is still the autonomous state because you’re deciding what to do. There is
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History of State and Federal Prison According to "History Of State And Federal Prisons" (July 7‚ 2011)‚ “State prisons are primarily operated by state governments. Overcrowding is a persistent problem in most state and federal prisons. By the end of 2001‚ state prisons were operating between 1 and 16 percent over capacity. This makes the prisons more difficult to operate‚ and puts the health and safety of inmates and staff at risk. The prison systems known today are based on eighteenth century Age
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students choose to studying local universities. They have own reasons to study local or abroad. But in my view‚ studying locally can bring several advantages than studying abroad. One of the advantages is can save the cost. Of course studying local universities can save the cost compared to studying in abroad universities. Both of the countries have different currency rate for example Brunei money change to US dollar. When we change Brunei money to United State dollar‚ the amount will
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Police Corruption Casey Jo Bowersox DeVry University Police Corruption The term police corruption is defined as the abuse of police authority for personal gain or to gain advantage for the police organization. Police corruption can take the form of a variety of criminal activities ranging from actual commission of serious criminal (i.e. drug trafficking and money laundering) to the instances where police will “look the other way” when a person commits a minor everyday violation of the law
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Police corruption is when law enforcement abuse their power for either their own personal gain or some other kind of gain like departmental or political gain. It is when they break the very laws and ordinances they are supposed to be upholding and enforcing. It is a very broad term that covers falsifying evidence‚ soliciting or accepting bribes‚ disregarding criminal behavior they know is taking place and all sorts of other forms of misconduct. Police corruption dates back to the 1830s when organized
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