write a paper on the budgetary pressures and cuts faced by all levels of government, and explain how to justify to the tax-paying public an increase in expenditures on prison treatment and rehabilitation programs. To respond to this assignment, the student undertook desk research, wrote and submitted this paper. Keywords: prison treatment, rehabilitation programs, cost, expense, investment Introduction: The context for extra spending Many sections of the United States government over the
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Murican Group A New Type Of Politics Social Issue: War on Drugs America has been in the one of its longest wars since 1971. Not against another country’s but, against its self. It’s our public enemy number one, as declared by Richard M. Nixon, and is the war on drugs. Sadly, little effect has occurred. We spend nearly $51,000,000,000 dollars as a country on the war on drugs annually. In turn, drug use is still soaring high and money keeps getting spent. This needs to be fixed. The war on
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Wrongful Convictions in America There have been many people, innocent people, wrongfully convicted for heinous crimes. Many of the people who are innocent unfortunately either have to spend many years behind bars until they are taking to trial again or have to serve a sentence they didn’t deserve. On top of it being utterly wrong for someone to have to go through and serve time for something they didn’t do, a lot of times from spending time incarcerated these innocent people come out and become
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numerous Local, State and National legal and political ramifications. An examination of I-502 would seem to be in order. Marijuana, or Hemp was legal and it’s production was actively encouraged very early on in the colonies of what would become America. Following the American civil war marijuana was used in numerous medical products that were sold over the counter- with no restrictions whatsoever. The Marijuana tax act of 1937 was the first real law that made marijuana a restricted substance (NPR)
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if we were to take into account people in prison state by state for drug charges the number is 330,000. Of the federal inmates, only 7.4% are doing time for violent crimes (Alcyone par.1, 5). The mandatory minimum sentence for a first time nonviolent offender caught with 100kg of marijuana is five years, a second time offence is ten years, and the third offence means life in prison (Families against…). We’re talking about nonviolent people going to prison potentially for life, for the possession of
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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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exactly what happened in this movie. Derek had to embrace the aspects of being in a situation that he was not comfortable with and do the best that he could with it. Even though he had a swastika tattoo on his chest, the prison officials forced him to work with the black men. Prison changed the way that Derek thought about life, causing him to change his way as well as no longer practicing in or for the KKK. The movie American History X is about two brothers, Danny and Derek Vineyard who are skinheads
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system, these facilities are now humane in comparison to old civilizations. Offenders of modern society still initiate the first phase of his or her restitution, rehabilitations, and reformation behind these walls. Enslavements have been replaced with prison labor; furthermore, these theological methods help inmates to repay society while earning a stipend in jail. The correctional system of some regions still practices the old jail concepts of inflicting pain by torturing individuals in lock up for
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attacks on U.S. soil. If we do not take quick and decisive action against these individuals their ideology will spread rampant throughout the world. America is tired of the war on terrorism and it needs to consider a more direct approach in dealing with individuals who wish to destroy everything that has been created in our country. Should America grant rights to those who do not value life, is there enough funding to house and feed these individuals for extended periods of time, will they be set
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