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    The three readings are all about stories that are related to emperors or leaders‚ and they illustrate both the common and unique characteristics of ideal models‚ values‚ male and female. In those chapters‚ they unanimously demonstrated that a role model should be strong‚ never obsessed with women and should always fulfil their responsibilities by serving the state and protecting the people. As shown in Genji‚ when the King demanded her lady to accompany him for the whole day‚ many courtiers were

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    They must do the best they can‚ go above and beyond the correctional and political approach‚ and be there for the inmates in every way possible. This is a very large stretch since about 85% of Americas prisons are over populated and understaffed. Funding comes from the tax payers‚ so the warden and everyone else on the correctional board must decipher how to handle the money‚ and which keys elements to invest in. In (Ch. 6.3 Management Issues for Administrators)

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    new outlook on the nation based on ideals. Since then‚ America as a nation has been trying to live up to the 5 American ideals; democracy‚ liberty‚ opportunity‚ rights and equality. People today strive to have the same opportunities as others. Women and African Americans fight for their rights and equality. And‚ America as a whole tries to live up to the ideal of Democracy. However‚ no matter how hard America tries‚ it is somehow still difficult to meet the ideals expressed for the people in the Declaration

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    The history of U.S. prisons from the late 1700s to the late 1800s was marked by a shift from a penitentiary system primarily concerned with rehabilitation to one concerned more with warehousing prisoners. The failure of reform minded wardens to justify rehabilitation caused state legislatures to set economic profitability as the new goal for prisons. This resulted in a worsening of prison conditions during this period. Early colonial criminal law was a curious mix of religion

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    However‚ the prison system appears to be a form of slavery itself with the high number of Africa-American incarcerated. Out of the whole prison population‚ about 80 percent or more are of African descent. After the Civil War‚ an enormous amount of African-American men were being sent to jail or prison for a long time because of petty crimes such as loitering. That was in the late 1800’s and it is still going on today. The tension between law enforcement officers and African-American is caused by

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    modern prison was devised by American reformers who believed that people should not be tortured and that criminals could be "reformed" by incarceration‚ labor‚ and "penitence." But with the rise of industrial capitalism‚ unpaid prison labor became a source of superprofits‚ a trend accelerated by the Civil War‚ and the "penitentiary" became the site of industrial slavery conducted under the whip and other savagery. Prior to the Civil War‚ the main form of imprisonment--African-American slavery--was

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    The American Prison System The American Prison system is home to many of the nations criminals. The ever-growing population is due in part to incarceration‚ where an alternate punishment would suffice. The sustenance of the inmates is drawn directly of of society’s pocket‚ in the form of taxes. I believe that we‚ as a nation‚ should focus on providing more sensible‚ economical ways for criminals to pay off their debt to the community. There is no doubt that America is one of the world’s largest

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    components of what is known to America as the prison system. All of which contains both positive and negative aspect of the American penal system. When it comes to our prison system today there is an increased number of inmates. This is due to the prison industrial complex which is the rapid growth of prisoners in the United States of America due to pressure from private companies on political figures so companies can gain a profit. However when the American justice system was set up it was to show that

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    Jail and Prison Mike Roberts CJS/201 4/13/2015 University of Phoenix Jail and Prison For more than two hundred years the United States has utilized imprisonment to rebuff any hoodlums. Prison and jails are the foundations that judges send offenders to‚ so they can serve time relying upon the earnestness of their unlawful activity that the individual has submitted. Being detained is the empathetic type of discipline that is utilized considering how they used to reform people back in more seasoned

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    twenty-twelve‚ compared to Norway‚ whose prison population is seventy-two out of a hundred thousand people (see fig.1 and 2). American prison systems need to be updated similar to the Norwegian prison system‚ via using taxpayer money more towards rehabilitation‚ retraining prison guards‚ or even reevaluating the goal of criminal justice‚ thereby providing healthier ex-convicts that give back to the economy in society. In order to clearly understand and evaluate prisons systems‚ a person must comprehend

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