Racial Profiling Furnie J. Oden IV Strayer University- Lithonia Campus Some people wonder what is racial profiling. Racial profiling derives from fear of the unknown, miss-education, slavery, and incarceration. Since the beginning of slavery African Americans have dealt with profiling due to their identity. Racial profiling deals with selecting a person within a stereotypical criteria according to their specific racial group. The
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is a person who has been convicted of a felony, which is a crime punishable by death or a term in state or federal prison ("What Is a Felon and What Is a Felony?" ProConorg Headlines. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 July 2014). This means that any U.S citizen who commits a crime that’s considered a felony will be sentenced to either the death penalty or will serve time in a state or federal prison. There are pros and cons pertaining to this particular subject. Comparing the pros and cons of whether felons should
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Leo Cuen Mr. Downey Prison Term Policy Recommendation 2/18/2014 CJA-314 There are approximately ten thousand armed robberies that are registered each day in the files of agencies around the United States. This is a major concern to law enforcement and the citizens of the United States. The government is taking drastic measures to reduce the opportunity, capability, and intent of having armed robbers victimizes citizens for their own wrongful way of happiness. The government is implementing
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of the prison population and how it directly correlates to the privatization of correctional facilities. We will delve into the major players that own and/or invest in privately own prisons, as well as the ethical dilemmas that follow and view if this type of capitalism is beneficial to the society. Private Corrections Major Players In researching who benefitted the most from prisons being privatized, it became apparent that there are two companies, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA),
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growth, overcrowded prisons, and poor police. People in these countries usually do not continue their education due to the lack of money. Due to prisons being overcrowded people usually get away with their crimes. “Critics often say the reasons are plain to see but are not tackled. They include poorly paid and often corrupt police (responsible, even by official admission, for 1 in 5 crimes);a corrupt inefficient and politicized judiciary; possibly the most violent and overcrowded prison system in Latin
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important part of what America is as the jail system has been with America for countless of years. The United States ended slavery with the introduction of the 16 Amendment. Effectively making slavery unconstitutional throughout America. Yet 228 years after the 16th amendment was approved we still find this issue of slavery. America now masks slavery through its jail system that legalized institutional slavery and racism. The United States boast that it holds 25% of the world's prison population yet only
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The war on drugs in America was an expensive effort to curb illegal drug use that ultimately failed. It is a term used to refer to a military based, government run campaign to prevent drug use, persecute those trafficking illegal and controlled substances, and to prevent drug flow across borders. The war officially began in 1971, where President Richard Nixon declared drugs to be the greatest threat to the American people. Drug use was rapidly spreading across the country, and thousands spilled across
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Prison Systems Paper University of Phoenix CJS 230 5/19/13 Prison Systems Paper Prison are places where criminals go and are physically confined to a cell for 23 hours a day. The prison system is a branch of a countries criminal justice system. This means that imprisonment is a punishment for a crime and is handed out by a state or the federal government (Ikilo, n.d.). Prisons are usually based off of two different models, one of these models is the Auburn model this model that uses
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Bentham is one of the foremost characters in the reform of corrections and rehabilitation of prisoners. He designed the famous panopticon style prison consisting of several cell blocks interconnected by a main administrative block. His design never really caught on in Europe, several prototype prisons were built, but only in America were any panopticon like prisons built. He was an advocate for prisoners’ rights, their education and health. Bentham defined the term “utilitarianism” meaning that everything
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neighborhood. February 1946 Malcolm was sentenced to jail and sent to Charlestown state prison along with shorty. They had an eight to ten year sentence not because of possession of a firearm or breaking in and entering, but because of having two white women who are middle class in the crew. This is definitely another event that made Malcolm dislike the “White Man” a little more unconsciously. 1947 in Charlestown state prison Malcolm meets the first of the few who would open his mind to the bigger picture
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