legal process, but it helps our courts out. Plea Bargaining A plea bargain is a negotiated agreement between a criminal defendant and a prosecutor in which the defendant agrees “guilty” or “no contest” to some crimes, along with possible conditions, such as attending Alcohol Anomalous classes in return for a reduction in the severity of the chargers, dismissal of some of the chargers, or some other type of benefit to the defendant (“Plea Bargaining Law and Legal Definitions”, 2015). The defendant
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The journey of the upper class white male, a socially, politically and economically powerful subgroup of the human race, is identified as the generic type for the normal human condition; and other members of society -- racial minorities, the poor, and women -- are seen as secondary characters important only as aids or rewards in his journey" (4). I propose that this is no longer the case in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
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The Criminal Justice System Lyn Wilson CJS 200 June 26th, 2011 University of Phoenix/Axia The Criminal Justice System The American criminal justice system is defined as a group of practices, policies, and courts for the purpose of upholding social responsibility, deterring crime, and penalizing those who violate the law. The criminal justice system has three main components, local and state law enforcement agencies, the courts, and corrections. These three components are broken down into
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"violent crime" as defined by the mass media. Concrete decisions are made which result in those deaths-all having to do with the bottom line-though those who make those decisions are rarely punished as criminals. * Reiman looks at what functions prisons serve in our society and who this benefits. By only punishing individual violent crimes and individual property crimes, the criminal justice system works to make the poor seem scary and violent. "The value of this to those in positions of power,"
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someone who was seeking judgments to benefit them directly or the market they work or own businesses in. An article published in the American Journal of Political Science, stated that the article was developed and tested a theory specifying the conditions under which trial judges will alter their sentencing behavior to improve their electoral prospects. Monitoring judicial behavior is difficult for voters, so even a single instance of apparent judicial malfeasance can decisively influence an election
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Marshall Services has lists and files on inmates deemed on a medical necessity. All of these services though cannot take away the fact that these inmates are still not getting treated the way that need to be. It is not about what they did to get into the prison system; it is about getting equal treatment. The US National Library of Medicine and national Institutes of Health analyzed a series of chronic illnesses among the vast majority of US inmates. The results that were found concluded that many inmates
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1, One of the readings that was significant to me was “Estranged Labor” from Karl Marx. This reading discusses how under capitalism, society is divided into the wage workers and the capitalists who have misappropriated the means of production from the workers, thereby making them suffer alienation in many different forms. The first form of alienation is where the worker grows to see the object of his work as foreign and hostile to himself. Although the worker invests his entire life into this object
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administered by the State prison complex’s and received by the inmates. While researching the demographics of Florence, Arizona, including five different prison complexes, the focus of attention will be the needs of the inmates for appropriate healthcare. This includes researching how the population of the state prisons is affecting the quality of healthcare the inmates receive, and how changes to this may increase the marketing needs for this town. The focus will be on the State Prison Complexes. However
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incarceration policies that some might consider barbaric. In order to understand the situation, one must have a background on the current situation with solitary confinement. It remains a popular practice across the United States, as prisoners are held in prison units that are conveniently coined “maximum security.” Prisoners can be sent to maximum security – or “Supermax” – units for a number of
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Overall the taxation of legal marijuana could potentially be a saving grace. A study at International Center for Prison Studies at King's College London found that “The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population, but it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners” (Liptak, 2008). The legalization of marijuana would reduce the number of drug related arrests, court and prison costs. In 2005, 19.1 percent of state sentenced prisoners were drug offenders and in 2007, a staggering 53
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