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    The View

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    Jayna Kovel World Theatre Greg Justice 07 November 2013 The View Unnerving. That’s the only way to describe walking into a dimply lit black box theatre to realize that the actor you have come to watch…is watching you. He’s acting‚ yes‚ but the whole premise of “The View” could not have been more clearly stated as we sat down to the crackle and pop of white noise in the background. In the tiny theatre‚ I couldn’t have been more than ten feet from what we were soon to learn was the main character

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    How Prison Overcrowding Affects State Budgets By: Clarissa Taylor JUST 6510/ JPS Planning & Budgeting April 18‚ 2015 This paper will discuss how state and federal budgets are affected by the overcrowding of prisons. I chose this topic mainly because I use to work for the Alabama Department of Corrections from 2002 to 2005 as a Correctional Officer I. During the time I was employed for the department‚ I witness a lot of overcrowding in Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. Things had gotten

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    Prison Models

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    Prison Models There are three models of prisons that have been prominent in American since the early 1940’s: custodial‚ rehabilitative‚ and reintegration. Each model is designed differently based on its overriding goal‚ and this affects the physical design‚ policies‚ and programs that are implemented within each of the models. Custodial Model Archaic Purpose: Control‚ focus is on maintaining security and order. Goal: Punishment‚ this is the best way to provide deterrence against

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    Special Operations Forces (SOF) and interagency activities go hand-to-hand in today’s operational environment. Understanding SOF authorities allow operators to articulate their operations with interagency partners. A military leader once described to me that understanding authorities meant you understood the "rules of the game.” The article‚ “Demystifying the Title 10-Title 50 Debate‚” highlights the confusion over the “rules of the game.” As future Special Forces Warrant Officers (SFWO)‚ the

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    Homosexuals In Prisons

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    There are many situations of being homosexual living in prisons. It is either they would respect you for being who you are or they would just simply abuse what they see‚ sexually and physically. In many cases it has been a big problem that homosexuals in prison were the closest thing to having a “woman-like” in prison‚ therefore many male prisoners would tend to rape or sexually abuse what they crave for. In some of the cases‚ the peer pressure would really get to the prisoners and are sometimes

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    Milgram Experiment

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    position of authority over them even if‚ in obeying‚ they violate their personal codes of moral and ethical behavior.   Milgram believed that in some situations‚ the human tendency to obey is so deeply ingrained and powerful that it cancels out a person’s ability to behave morally‚ ethically‚ or even sympathetically. In 1963 Milgram carried out an experiment. He hypothesized that individuals who would never intentionally cause someone physical harm would do so if ordered by a powerful authority figure

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    Tennessee Valley Authority

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    The Tennessee Valley Authority Introduction The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was the first large regional planning agency created by the United States Government in May of 1933. The TVA was one of the most innovative and significant ideas of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to help tackle the economic‚ social‚ and political problems in the Tennessee Valley‚ a region with no economic growth and was heavily impacted before and after the Great Depression. The TVA is a federally owned

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    Prison Overcrowding

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    of prison overcrowding in the UK. The prison population of the UK has steadily been increasing every year since 1993 when the number was 41‚000 to a current figure of 82‚000 (office of national statistics). This essay will discuss this doubling of prison population in the last 17 years. It will examine the suggested reasons for this rise‚ a statistical breakdown of the structure of the inmate population‚ the financial and social effects also the implications on the effectiveness of prison as

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    Greater London Authority

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    aims to investigate the policies affecting the environment in London. A review will be made into the responsibilities of the Greater London Authority (GLA) and the mayor. A critical evaluation of the evidence will be provided. A survey of opinions amongst GSM students will be presented and a conclusion drawn on the effectiveness of the Greater London Authority (GLA) and the Mayor in tackling key issues which relate to the environment. It has been estimated that London‚ the capital of England‚ has

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    Contraband in Prison

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    comes to prisons‚ anything that can’t be bought in the commissary or that isn’t given to them when they get to prison is contraband. Contraband is a major issue behind the walls and can be anything from a “homemade” shank by the inmate‚ or drugs or weapons smuggled into the prison from various ways. Not only is different types of contraband in the prison a threat to the inmates lives‚ but also a threat to the officers on duty and other staff members. Some issues with contraband in a prison are: how

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