Nicholas Burns Intro to Philosophy 28 September 2013 Legalization of Hemp Before you can understand my philosophical belief we must first take a brief look at the history of Marijuana and its more resourceful counterpart Hemp. Hemp has uses for over 20,000 things including fuel, food, construction material, clothing, paint, and even making more durable and longer lasting paper. Hemp was so versatile and heavily cultivated that during the mid-1600 to the early 1800’s you could pay taxes with
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Children can be endangered because they need adults to care for them. They can experience problems with education, poverty, homelessness, and poor care from parents or guardians. Children need love, care, protection, and guidance from adults. Children can face mental health issues due to environmental problems, or they might have problems related to a mental disability. The needs of children may vary based on specific conditions. Children need physical care and protection from older, abusive
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has taken a second row to control on today’s crime. The approach that takes punishment will be a prison sentence as a main function. This particular approach causes overcrowding in the prison system, which will have a definite effect on the crime rates (Benson, 2003). Due to this particular step within the United States the prison population has a growth of approximately two million people in prison and jail. The past 25 years generates massive amounts of research literature that states the main
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A Union Out of Control The California Correctional System which operates prisons in the state is broken and in dire need of reform but this can not be done because Correctional Officer’s union blocks any attempt to implement much needed reforms. So how does the State of California fix its broken prison system? The state must take on the Correctional Officer’s union and find a way to curtail and/or diminish its power. In laymen’s terms the state must break the union. This will be a very difficult
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The “Three Strike” Sentencing The “Three Strikes and You’re Out” law is a law that was passed by California voters in 1994. The Three Strikes law is sentencing laws that mandate a prison sentence of 25 years to life for violent offenders who have been convicted of three or more offenses. It is also a law that is systemized in 26 states throughout the country and the federal government. Violent offenses include murder, robbery of a residence in which a dangerous or deadly weapon is used, rape
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show that blacks are 8 times more likely to be stopped and searched compared to whites and Asians are 3 times more likely to be stopped than whites. Because blacks are targeted more by police it explains why there is higher percentage of blacks in prison compared to whites. Ethnic minorities are disadvantaged in terms of housing. Pilkington found that Bangladeshis and Pakistanis are
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Anti- Nazi’s and Nazi’s were placed in the same camp with no accommodation due to the Geneva Convention, which states that all prisoners should be removed from combat as fast as possible leaving no opportunity for separation. This lead to Nazi domination in camps, as limited personnel of the camp was able to speak German. With this being said, POW’s that didn’t speak English relied on POWs that did regardless of their political beliefs. Because of the Americans desire to avoid conflict within the
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crimes and the unjust mandatory minimum sentencing laws. America’s prisons are the most populated in the world, and they are disproportionately populated by minorities due to the set of mandatory imprisonment policies set in place. Over the past five decades, the disparity between races has widened dramatically according to the National Center on Institutions. In the 1950’s, blacks and Hispanics were the minorities in the prison system, whereas today whites are. Is this due to poverty? I’m sure
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Criminal Justice Procedure Amber Irwin Michiels CRJ306 Instructor Petrov July 31, 2013 Criminal Justice Procedure The criminal justice procedure involves a number of steps that must be taken carefully to ensure that a criminal does not get away with a criminal act because of law enforcement's failure to carry out each step properly. It is also set in place to protect the innocent from being unlawfully convicted. The modern justice process begins with investigation. After a crime has been
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Blame for Repeat Offenders Michele Jimenez Wayland Baptist University October 29, 2011 Abstract Repeat offenders in the prison system are becoming a revolving door. This paper will examine and give your percentages and statistics of how many become repeat offenders due to the fact of the amenities inside most prisons. Gathering information from different prisons and their living conditions have brought a great deal of questions to why are they offered so many for free. Given information on
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