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World War Ii Public Transportation
1,550 wordsThe development of urban transportation has not changed with the cities; cities have changed with transportation. In the early years of transportation it was the mass transit of horse and buggies or electric rail cars that shaped cities. Then as the automobile became affordable to the public, personal transportation redefined the city as it was known. It is the automobile and the movement to the suburbs that has public transportation struggling to make money today. The very first transportation ...
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Welfare To Work Welfare Recipients
1,587 wordsNo matter how liberal or conservative, all politicians agree that welfare costs could be greatly reduced if abuse and fraud were eliminated. Welfare was first introduced in the 20 's as a program to help people get through the depression. The government created many public works jobs to employ the thousands that lost their jobs. At the time it was a great program but seventy-five years later, major reforms are necessary to eliminate the widespread abuse and fraud. Today, the U. S. spends well ov...
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United States Department Bureau Of Justice Statistics
1,236 wordsOvercrowding in Jails Today, in America, some prisoners are living worse than some third world countries are for little crimes such as theft. The reason for that to happen is rather simple - too many prisoners and not enough room. This country needs to spend more money to build new prisons, or at least attempt to differentiate the people who have committed minor criminal offence (like shoplifting or vehicle theft) from those who appear to be murderers and other type of thugs. This differentiatio...
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Strengths And Weaknesses Prison Labor
1,233 wordsCorrections Population Why were these articles grouped together the way they were? That is, what do the articles have in common, and how do they inform each other? These articles were grouped together because they had the common thread of violence within the correctional system that is now a national concern. Penitentiary drew attention to the potential for death and destruction that lurks in every prison. It seems that the locus of control in many prisons shifted from correctional staff to viol...
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Welfare Recipients Poor Quot
1,853 wordsOf the many chatted words in the social reform vocabulary of Canadians today, the term workfare seems to stimulate much debate and emotion. Along with the notions of self-sufficiency, employability enhancement, and work disincentives, it is the concept of workfare that causes the most tension between its government and business supporters and its anti-poverty and social justice critics. In actuality, workfare is a contraction of the concept of " working for welfare" which basically ref...
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Form Of Punishment Deter Crime
1,418 wordsAmericas prisons have been called " graduate schools for crime. " It stands to reason: Take a group of people, strip them of possessions and privacy, expose them to constant threats of violence, overcrowd their cell- block, deprive them of meaningful work, and the result is an embittered underclass more intent on getting even with society than contributing to it. Prisons take the nonviolent offender and make him live by violence. They take the nonviolent offender and make him a hardene...
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