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Juvenile Justice System Juvenile Offenders
1,042 wordsAre we solving youth violence by sending minors to jail in adult prisons? In the article Tough Justice for Juveniles author Edward Humes discusses the underlining problems with the Juvenile Justice System. In this article Humes claims in paragraph 2 that: Our national fixation with meting out adult punishments to young criminals has blinded us to the underling crisis the juvenile systems shocking inability to impose meaningful penalties, or even supervision, on offenders before they become the p...
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Juvenile Justice Second Chance
554 wordsDouglas Christopher Thomas, 17 fatally shot his girlfriends parents as they slept in their home, according to the January 11 th Minot Daily Newspaper. The girlfriends parents had been trying to end their relationship for months and out of frustration and anger Douglas went along with his 14 -year-old girlfriends wishes. Should Douglas be liable for life in prison or even death row? In some states surprisingly he is, children even as young as thirteen are being sentenced as adults, and we maybe s...
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Solitary Confinement Tear Gas
2,619 wordsWhen I was sent to the Missouri State Penitentiary at Jefferson City, in February 1960, there were 2, 500 men inside "the walls. " The white convicts slept three to a cell (except for several hundred in the one-man cells). The blacks slept as many as eight to a cell. Stabbings and killings, robberies and rapes were common. Dope was easier to get in prison than it was on the streets. There were men in prison who were said to make more money each year from dope and gambling than the warden was pai...
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Gun Control Laws Assault Weapons
1,776 wordsThe Gun Control issue has sparked major controversy in America today. People who support gun control feel that guns are the reason for the soaring crime rate in our country. I disagree with the supporters of gun control. I feel that because of the black market, violent criminals being released from prison early, and the need to ensure personal safety, stricter gun control will have very little impact on violent crime in America. I believe that gun control works in theory, but not in real life. S...
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One Hundred Dollars Strongly Disagree
601 wordsJune Stephenson's passage is about how men commit the most crime in America and women are still expected to pay their unfair share for male pursuit. June suggests that since men outnumber women ninety-four to six men should pay one hundred dollars more in their IRS returns. The author carries a chauvinist tone through out the passage and really gets carried away when she starts blaming all men because we are all brothers. I strongly disagree! We can not start pointing fingers and say men commit ...
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State And Federal Prison Population
473 wordsOne of America's biggest problems today is the overcrowding of prisons. This began when the population of inmates started to soar in the 1980 's. With the increase of rapist, murderers, and drug dealers skyrocketing, there is no reason to this overpopulation. The nation responds to this by building prison at a fast pace. But the construction has not kept pace with the soaring population of inmates. The number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of Federal correctional authorise at the end of 199...
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War On Drugs Prohibition Of Marijuana
646 wordsThe Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 started the prohibition of marijuana in America. At the time many tabloids ran untrue stories of Immigrants committing violent crimes while intoxicated with marijuana, so Congress decided to start prohibition of marijuana. This was a huge blow to many Americans since marijuana was and still is the third most popular recreational drug behind nicotine and alcohol. Also marijuana was a huge cash crop, so many farmers lost a lot of money by the prohibition. However the ...
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Released From Prison Million A Year
1,866 wordsCalifornia incarceration Our country has embarked on a remarkable social experiment: We have significantly increased the use of incarceration as a response to crime. Over the past 25 years, the per capita rate of incarceration in America has increased four-fold. More than 2 million individuals are now locked up in prison or jail. The increase has taken on a unique twist in California, particularly in regard to its parole policy. Unlike many other states, nearly every prisoner released in Califor...
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Substance Abuse Treatment Boot Camps
1,749 wordsWith the ever rising prison population in this country, something has to be done rehabilitate criminals rather than just lock them up. Many feel that the new prisons, boot camps are the answer (Champion 1990). I will give a brief overview of boot camp institutions, specifically, about the operation and structure of these, the cost involved with both juvenile and adult facilities, and how effective they really are with regard to recidivism. Boot camps or shock incarceration programs, as they are ...
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Thousands Of People Illegal Aliens
980 wordsRemember, remember always, that all of us? are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. -Franklin D. Roosevelt Americas constant growth in population is due to immigrants who leave their countries in search for a better life. Now America is cutting back on who they allow citizenship to. One way the government is resolving this conflict is, by creating the U. S. Border Patrol who catches illegal aliens crossing the borders. They send the aliens back to their countries, and then wait for them...
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Civil Liberties Union Anti Death Penalty
1,219 wordsThe Death Of A Criminal Crimes are committed everyday. Many people are caught, while many are not. In the United States Of America, when a person kills another person he / she is considered a murderer. The instant the murder takes place, all rights should automatically be revoked. Murderers should not be allowed to walk the streets. Once a person has killed, there should be no chance it could happen again. Convicted murders should be given the death penalty and have it carried out at once. The d...
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Death Penalty Lethal Injection
974 wordsDeath Penalty I strongly believe that the Death Penalty is a form of punishment to be used when needed. Which opens up the question, when should it be used? That may be the breaking point in a lot of arguments, deciding when to use the death penalty is a very touchy subject. I believe that only murderers deserve the death penalty, but I do not believe that all murderers should receive it as punishment. In cases where someone was killed in self defense, the murderer should not receive the death p...
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Years In Prison Watching A Movie
1,993 wordsTitle: Diary of A Survivor: Nineteen Years in a Cuban Women? s Prison Authors: Ana Rodriguez and Glenn Garvin Published: St. Martin? s Press Type of Book: Assisted auto-biography Plot Summary Diary of a Survivor follows nineteen years of Ana Rodriguez? s life, a Cuban woman arrested by Cuba? s? State Security? in her late teens. As a teenager she had been an activist against the Batista dictatorship which governed Cuba, and at first welcomed Fidel Castro? s take-over of power. Gradually, however...
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Mentally Ill Mental Illness
531 wordsEng. 201 Essay # 1 Persuasive Essay Wisconsin has a problem on its hands and it is not being dealt with in the right manner. The problem keeps getting bigger and bigger everyday. Instead of giving treatment to the mentally ill, hospital facilities have pushed thousands of mentally ill people on to the street. The idea behind this is to give those with mental illness, a freedom that has been taken from them since they were institutionalized. This plan has a lot of great qualities that would help ...
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Hard Earned Money U S Supreme Court
1,782 wordsEach Capital Punishment Capital Punishment Each year more and more people are added to death row. The death penalty is currently the harshest form of punishment enforced in the United States. The death penalty and its methods have become a controversial issue as death row becomes very populated. Important aspects of Capital Punishment are the methods of execution, costs, and the pros and cons. The death penalty's interesting history has made it what it is today. People who are against the death ...
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War On Drugs Number Of People
1,018 wordsWhen and where will the senseless persecutions of Americas Marijuana users end? These Marijuana smokers are typically middle class males, between the ages of 17 and 39, and one in three have no prior felony charges on their records. (HRW World Report) However, each year, hundreds of thousands of them are arrested and thrown into jail, alongside murderers, rapists, and child molesters. The Marihuana Tax Act was passed in August 1937, and took effect on October 1, an incident which would forever c...
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Innocent Bystanders Violent Criminals
664 wordsLegalization of Drugs It is clear that most of the serious problems the public associates with illegal drug use are, in reality, caused directly or indirectly by drug prohibition. Lets assume the war on drugs is given up as the misguided enterprise it is. What will happen? The day after legalization goes into effect, the streets of America will be safer. The American citizens will no longer have to worry for their safety due to the drug dealers in their community. One year after legalization, 1,...
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Mandatory Minimum Sentences Mandatory Minimums
1,044 wordsPrisoners of War: Fighting Back Against Mandatory Minimum Sentences Jess Brock Prisoner number 59817 - 079, Zulima Buitrago. She was charged and convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, even though she wasnt in possession of any drugs or money. While out at the movies with her children, a friend of hers conducted a drug deal in her garage. When he got busted, in order to avoid a life sentence, he claimed that Zulima was involved in the drug deal as well. At the time of her arrest, Zulima w...
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Client Centered Differential Association
927 wordsPrison inmates are some of the most maladjusted people in society. Most of these inmates have had too little discipline or too much, come from broken homes, and / or have little or no self-esteem. They are very insecure and are at war with themselves as well as with society. (Szumski 20) Most inmates did not learn moral values or learn to follow everyday norms. Also, when most lawbreakers are labeled criminals, they enter the phase of secondary deviance. They will admit they are criminals or bel...
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Start Of Prohibition Intoxicating Liquor
1,668 wordsThe Roaring Twenties was a time of great social change, a time when youth ruled. From the world of fashion to the world of politics, it was the most explosive decade of the century. It was the age of economic prosperity and of downfall. It was also the age of alcohol prohibition. With prohibition came many problems such as crime and corruption. The noble experiment, (Rebman 10) as prohibition was called by President Hoover, was enacted to reduce alcohol intake, and thereby reduce crime and impro...
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