Policy/UST 458 Cleveland State University Abstract In the United States the prison population has increased from 300,000 in 1972 to 2.2 million people today. One in 31 adults in the United States is in jail, prison, on probation or parole. The American government currently spends over 68 billion dollars a year on incarceration. Drug Policy and the incarceration of low-level drug offenders is the primary cause of mass incarceration in the United States. Forty percent of drug
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Grace D’Onofrio Professor Williams U.S. History 27 April 2015 Debate Does the media today side with race more than the police and the criminal justice system? Argue from the perspective of African Americans. Introduction * In recent years policy attention regarding the crisis of the African American male has focused on a variety of areas in which African Americans have suffered greatly. * This includes education, housing, employment, and health care. Have these problems been displayed
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punishment is the death penalty. It has been used throughout history to punish a variety of offenses committed. Whether or not there should be a death penalty is one of the most debated issues in the Criminal Justice system. It is polled that approximately 62% of Americans support the death penalty. Behind that percentage is poorly based reasons like revenge or misrepresented facts, such as cost and a sense of justice. The United States had a 2012 murder rate of 4.8 victims per 100,000-meaning
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trafficking, continued violence, and overrunning prisons are a few of the main challenges that the justice system faces when trying to control these gangs. Based usually on race, these gangs are believed to be some of the most dangerous in the world and are only getting larger. Even though measures are being taken to try and prevent these gangs from growing in size, most attempts fail as the gangs are becoming too prominent and too powerful. Prison gangs by definition are criminal organizations that
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social and economic scale. It is up to the federal, local and state government to control and implement laws and programs that will combat these situation. Illegal immigrants cost the government billions of tax payer’s dollar each year, through the funding of law enforcement and programs. This paper will explain the changes that Immigration and Customs Enforcements (ICE) implements through the use of programs and reforms to secure the country at federal, state and local level, along with if these programs
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CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK ------------------------------------------------- POLICY BRIEF VETERAN TREATMENT COURT SHOULD BE EXPANDED TO THE COMMON PLEAS COURT OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY TONY D. MORRIS PREPARED FOR: Honorable John J. Russo Administrative and Presiding Judge Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court July 1, 2014 SWK 300: SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY PROFESSOR MICHAEL A. DOVER SPRING 2014 GOAL STATEMENT The sole purpose of this policy brief is to deliver
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Accounting scandals CEO Bernard Ebbers became very wealthy from the rising price of his holdings in WorldCom common stock. However, in the year 2000, the telecommunications industry entered a downturn and WorldCom’s aggressive growth strategy suffered a serious setback when it was forced by the US Justice Department to abandon its proposed merger with Sprint in mid 2000. By that time, WorldCom’s stock was declining and Ebbers came under increasing pressure from banks to cover margin calls on his
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Mentally Ill in Prison PSCH/610 Mentally Ill in Prison Abstract The increase in incarcerated individuals with mental illness in the preceding decades has made the prison system a prevalent mental health provider even though they are not prepared or equipped for such task. Prison life is tough on an individual’s mental health; overcapacity, lack of privacy, violent behavior, lack of activity, inadequate health services, seclusion from family and friends, and the insecurity of what life holds
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That however was not the case for 79 young adolescents who were sentenced to die in prison. Gail Garinger states in the article “ Juveniles Don’t Deserve Life sentences” that “ These children were told that they could never change and that no one cared what became of them. They were denied access to education and rehabilitation programs and left without
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JAIL AND PRISON Every year the number of prisoners increase and their sentences are longer. The expenses continue to be high maintaining prisons, work farms and other secure facilities. Budgets now are tighter than ever and expectations continue to get higher. Private prisons opened after the civil war encountered legal problems for leasing convicts to replace slave labor, and civil right issues for cutting corners on food and living conditions but by the 1980’s, every state had private contracts
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