Federal and State Sentencing Instructor Class Date Name In 1998 the District of Columbia Sentencing and Criminal Code Revision Commission was charged with developing a comprehensive structured sentencing system for the District. The Commission concluded that the District could benefit from a comprehensive structured sentencing system. Next‚ the Commission embarks the difficult task of creating workable sentencing guidelines for felonies. As Washington‚ DC follows the lead of other jurisdictions
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As Federal law states: It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally to possess a controlled substance unless such substance was obtained directly‚ or pursuant to a valid prescription or order‚ from a practitioner‚ while acting in the course of his professional practice‚ or except as otherwise authorized by this subchapter or subchapter II of this chapter. What is Possession of a Controlled Substance? Possession of a controlled substance occurs whenever a person owns or otherwise
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1.1 Legislation The medicines Act (1986) – This act governs the manufacture and supply of medicines. The act also defines the categories of medicines‚ those that can only be supplied with a prescription‚ those that must be supplied by a pharmacist but do not need a prescription and those that can be brought on generally. The Misuse of Drugs Act (1971) - The main purpose of the act is to prevent the misuse of controlled drugs. It puts in place the law that allows the production‚ supply and possession
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Federal and State Prisons Deanna Snowden 06/02/2013 Dr. John Opinski Federal and State Prisons There are so many different types of prison systems in the world these days‚ it can go from a stay of one year to a stay of life without ever having the chance to have freedom back meaning life without parole. Once the words are uttered to someone that is something that can either break you or make you realize that‚ you have not only destroyed your life as you knew it but you have destroyed your
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Aspirin Background Aspirin Aspirin‚ or acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) is a salicylate drug‚ and is generally used as an analgesic (something that relieves pain without producing anaesthesia or loss of consciousness) for minor aches and pains‚ to reduce fever (an antipyretic)‚ and also as an anti-inflammatory drug. Aspirin works by prohibiting biological substances such as prostaglandins. Many different prostaglandins exist in the human body each serving a plethora of physical functions.
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State and Federal Aid There are many past and rising issues involving public school finance. The public schools system is funded through federal‚ state and local taxes. Each state has different formulas to distribute funding from state and local taxes. Federal funding does contribute to the rising cost of education for each state. State and local taxes is allocated to cover the majority of educational costs. Student achievement depends upon the available funding allotted to each district. This
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The equal opportunity and anti-discrimination Legislation (Policy & Procedure) -This is a National/State law that requires employers to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the workplace is free from discrimination and harassment for staff‚ customers‚ tenants and those under their care. -Discrimination can be age related‚ gender related‚ religious related‚ sexual preference‚ physical appearance‚ etc. -The equal opportunity and anti-discrimination act supports a workplace that accepts cultural
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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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Anti Aids Drug AZT: How it Works and HIV Resistance Name: Jacob Burbank Student ID: 20456553 TA: Steffie Mendaglio Anti Aids Drug AZT: How it Works Many viruses around through our environment have the capability to infect and reproduce in humans‚ sometime quickly being able to spread over a substantial amount of the population. HIV is a retrovirus which advances into AIDS‚ and it has infected people worldwide‚ most prevalently in Africa. Retroviruses are able to
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The histories of the state and federal prison systems have some connections which both systems has something distinctive. The State is usually operated by the state governments and consists of prisoners that are considered blue collar criminals and the federal systems are mainly associated with white collar criminals. Both prison systems have security levels which include minimum‚ low‚ medium‚ and high levels of security. To learn the knowledge of the history about federal prison in so many different
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