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    Prison Overcrowding Essay

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    Recommendations A potential resolution to the issue of jail overcrowding is the end of mandatory sentencing for minor offenses. Despite the fact that the alternative requires a great deal of influence to convince Congress to eliminate this law; the termination of mandatory sentencing will majorly affect prison overcrowding. Indeed‚ even those these wrongdoers have carried out an unlawful activity‚ imprisonment may not generally be the best choice. Alternative programs that encourage the wrongdoers

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    Jail Industry in Nepal

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    Executive Summary Hetauda Cement Industry Ltd. was established in 1976 A.D. under the government undertaking with the core objectives of the production of cement. In the market‚ there are many private and government agencies engaged in this kind of manufacturing. Hetauda cement industry has the core competitors like Udayapur Cement Industry (government) and many private cement factories. Hetauda cement industry is the single company to produce clinker in Nepal. It has the very good credit over

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    American Prison System

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    American Prison Systems Introduction In many countries national prisons are operated and supplemented by provinces and state counterparts. Prisoners are held in prisons and jails throughout the country and globally convicted of various crimes and offenses. The nature of the offense determines where the prisoner is held and the lengths of times. There are institutions that vary in level of security in both the state and federal prison system. However‚ the majority of prisoners are

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    Life in the Prison System

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    Heitz College Writing 6 May 2013 Life in the Prison System Prison is a place that nobody wants to be. Its a place which can hold anyone who has committed a crime no matter how serious. There are many different crimes that can land you in prison and unfortunately so many people have committed these crimes that our prisons are becoming overpopulated. These prisons all have different severities which the prisoners are to serve. Some prisons are meant to break you as to others which only serve

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    Philip Zimbardo‚ born in 1933 in New York (USA) is a psychologist and investigator‚ who focus in social psychology. His best known work is the Stanford´s Prison experiment‚ searching for an explanation for the violence in the USA prisons. He wanted to know if this behaviour is due to the personalities of the guards (i.e. dispositional) or due to the prison environment and structure (i.e. situational). He later gave class in some of the best universities of the world; Yale‚ NYU and Columbia. His also known

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    It was in Burma‚ a sodden morning of the rains. A sickly light‚ like yellow tinfoil‚ was slanting over the high walls into the jail yard. We were waiting outside the condemned cells‚ a row of sheds fronted with double bars‚ like small animal cages. Each cell measured about ten feet by ten and was quite bare within except for a plank bed and a pot of drinking water. In some of them brown silent men were squatting at the inner bars‚ with their blankets draped round them. These were the condemned

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    of Offenders 1970s At the start of the “modern era” inmate security and control had been improved‚ escape from prisons were difficult‚ system of identification and control‚ including computer banks of data‚ have made escape into society almost impossible. The security of the prisons was so uptight and escape cut off that the frustration and agitation for inmates turned into the prisons (Allen‚ J.‚ & Ponder‚ 2010). Alternatives to Incarceration in 1970s Some alternatives to incarcerations in the

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    A Lettler from Prison

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    A letter from prison Introduction Richard is the executive of Computer Associates. His company sells software products which usually have licence last for a period of three to ten years. The company has a “sales-driven-culture” which is “the more you sell‚ the more commissions you will get”. Richard is responsible for keep an eye on things like when the contracts are signed and when those payments are assured. It seems that he failed on his job because he was put in jail on April 24‚ 2006. The

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    Beyond the Prison Bubble

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    Summary Assignment Joan Petersilia in Wilson Quarterly publishes the article “Beyond the Prison Bubble‚” in the Winter 2011. Petersilia explains several alternative solutions to the U.S’s overcrowded imprisonment systems. She talks about how research has come to prove that crime rates and recidivism can be decreased. Furthermore‚ Petersilia’s article outlines the evolution of accepting this fact‚ as well as developing‚ funding‚ and refining various intensive rehabilitation programs. The first section

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    Soc 310 Cook County Jail Reflection Paper Autumn 2009 Our visit to Cook County Jail was very stimulating to say the least. The community that the jail system is located in is primarily filled with Mexican Americans and seems to be very poor. I think that the jail is located there with no consideration of lowering property level due to the fact that it is already a poor neighborhood. I think that it further harms this community because the youth are exposed to jail system unnecessarily. I

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