lessens in our prisons. The cost to put a single drug dealer is about $450,000 and the cost for arrest and conviction is $150,000. The same $450,000 can provide treatment and/or education for about 200 people. In consideration, putting a person in prison produces about fifteen dollars in related welfare costs, for every dollar spent on incarceration. Every dollar spent on treatment and education saves about five dollars relating to welfare costs. States are spending more money on prisons than education
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and began jumping, trying to get it.” (p.36) He was risking getting caught and beaten for the Nazi flag, but he did it anyways. Later in the book one of the prison guards asked Louie, “...who’d win the war.” Louie said, “America.”(p.145) Even though he knew he would be dehumanized further he rebelled and was ardent to the U.S. In the prison camps they were starved so they would, “...sneak to the galleys and stuff food into their clothes.”(p.204) He was rebelling by stealing the guards food otherwise
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The Death Penalty PHI103: Informal Logic Professor Donald Ceplenski March 26, 2012 The Death Penalty Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the lawful infliction of death as a form of punishment. It is considered to be one of the most controversial and a debated topic across the United States which leads to the logical question; is the death penalty just and applied fairly? Although in theory sentencing a criminal to death may bring closure to the victim’s families
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Peace had finally fallen across America. The Civil War concluded on April 9, 1865 with Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendering his troops to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. The South had finally been defeated after many excruciating years of war. Good Friday approached and the Lincoln's and many other government officials attended the play “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s theater. Laughter engulfed the theater. The nation’s worries were behind them, and a bright future
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for the individual: punishment or treatment. Opposing arguments are that all drug abusers should be locked-up and the key should be thrown away. The initial law enforcements for drugs, even if no other crime has been committed, has been mandatory prison sentences to cover first time offenders, and harsher sentencing for second and third timers. There is no evidence that enacting tougher penalties will deter the drug problem or decrease the number of crimes being committed. For this matter, despite
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that God told him to do it. The doctors said that he suffered from a religious psychosis (Rawlins). Some people seem to get away with these kinds of heinous crimes because of insanity and others, who really have mental problems, get locked away in prison and forgotten about. The definition of insanity is “the mental illness of such a severe nature that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, cannot conduct his/her affairs due to psychosis, or is subject to uncontrollable impulsive behavior”
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corrections department figures, while more whites were involved with the distribution, manufacture and consumption of illicit drugs, there were more minorities (predominantly African American) who found themselves incarcerated. Ninety four percent of the prison growth for drug offenses during the nineties was due to drug related offenses and were predominantly African American arrests. This proves that the justice system is not as fair, or just, as is believed. Given this, then, the argument can be extended
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Privatization Trends in Government in the 1990's e University of Submitted to: Prof. Submitted by: D el 6 7 May PRIVATIZATION HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY ATTRACTIVE TO GOVERNMENTS AT ALL LEVELS BOTH IN THE UNITED STATES AND AROUND THE WORLD. PRIVATIZATION, HOWEVER, POSES A DIF~ERENT SET OF PROBLEMS FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS. THE GOAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR IS TO RUN HIS/HER AGENCY AS EFFICIENTLY AS ) .' ''I ,J• . 1 , POSSIBLE. BUT IN TIMES OF FISCAL CONSTRAINlj PRIVATIZATION IS
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“[I was] visiting New Orleans and my father at his shop, he was installing TVs in the headrest [of my car] for the kids to watch videos. I was going also to visit my mother while there, and [...] buy hot sausage and French bread for my restaurant. I was walking, looking for my father’s workers around the corner from his shop. Upon finding them and returning to the shop, I was riding a bicycle with the other two men walking beside me. Suddenly, five cars of police swung the corner and one of the men
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Status of Prison Privatization Research on American Prisons Gerald G. Gaes. Ph. D. Florida State University August 2010 Introduction In many ways, any discussion of prison privatization strikes at the heart of the fundamental goals and purposes of prison and punishment. The discussion elevates such themes as the role of the private sector in administering punishment, the importance of metrics to evaluate and compare how well the privately and publicly operated prisons provide services
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