prisons and jails. We have all heard someone say something like, “For that crime, I hope the criminal spends years in jail,” although jails are not used to hold sentenced offenders for long terms of confinement. (Seiter, R. 2011). Jails are the watershed of the correctional system. The U.S. jail is the oldest of the correctional components, initiated well before prisons, probation, parole, or halfway houses. Yet the jail still has a diverse and difficult mission and role. Few offenders won’t pass
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Civil Liberties, Habeas Corpus, and the War on Terror POL 201: American National Civil Liberties, Habeas Corpus, and the War on Terror Habeas Corpus is a term unlikely known to many detainees in Guantanamo Bay. The war on terror has gone from protecting our country from terrorist, to slowly but surely doing onto these detainees what other tyrants were doing before us. Habeas Corpus is a law that was placed in the constitution in order for guarantee that no one would be held prisoner without
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Barefoot Beach Preserve is 342 acres of natural land. It is one of the last undeveloped barrier islands on the Southwest Florida coast. 8,200 feet of beach and sand dunes support the ‘ growth of sea oats, providing nesting sites for sea turtles during the summer months. The park also maintains a tropical coastal hammock of sable palm, gumbo-limbo and sea grape trees among many others. The site is also home to the protected gopher tortoise. (Barefoot Beach Preserve County Park, 2015).
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Kure atoll is located in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands of the Pacific Ocean 28°25′N 178°20′W and is the most remote atoll in the world. 178°20′W and is the most remote atoll in the world. Green Island is 6 miles in diameter and is the only existing land that currently protrudes from the ocean. The atoll is located at the “Darwin point”, where coral growth decreases to a slower rate than atoll subsidence, and the atoll will sink below the surface. The good news is that the coral growth at
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Provide the name, location, and description of the Superfund site nearest to your community. The central City Clear Creek site is a Superfund located in Near Town, Idaho Springs, Colorado 80452. The Clear Creek site is 400-mile watershed consisting of multiple mine waste piles, draining mine adits, tailings impoundments, and impacted groundwater resources. This site is also on the NPL. a. Why is this location a Superfund site? This is a Superfund site because it includes harmful
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Halt All Racist Tours (HART) was organized in New Zealand in 1969 to protest rugby tours to and from South Africa. Their first protest, in 1970, was intended to prevent the All Blacks, New Zealand’s flagship rugby squad, from playing in South Africa, unless the Apartheid regime would accept a mixed-race team. South Africa relented, and an integrated All Black team toured the country. Two years later, the Springboks arranged a tour of New Zealand. HART held intensive planning meetings, and, after
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ABSTRACT The basic method for controlling building fires by fire departments is through the use of water, which is typically applied with manual hose lines or water monitors. This water can come from a municipal/city water supply, a private water supply, or from the fire department itself (i.e., water tenders). In order to effectively fight a fire, the water supply available must be adequate for the threat from the building and contents. The water requirements for firefighting include the rate
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------------------------------------------------- Yellowstone Ecosystem Learning Team “C” 12/7/2015 Instructor: Dr. Ted Smith Yellowstone Ecosystem One of the largest and most complicated ecosystems on Earth is the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. This ecosystem is home to everything from mountains, lakes, forests, geysers, rivers, and meadows. Because this area is so large, it is the habitat to thousands of different species of plants and animals. In this paper we will discuss the natural
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tropical areas or peat lands that considered temperate are much higher. When the area is flooded, the vegetation and soil in these areas will slowly decompose, releasing both carbon dioxide and methane in the process. The actual quantity of emissions depends greatly on site-specific characteristics. However, current estimates suggest that life-cycle emissions can be over 0.5 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt-hour. To put this very simple, the estimation of the global warming life-cycle
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Three indices were used for the analysis of abundance and diversity of the collected periphyton. The Shannon’s diversity index (H) (Shannon & Wiener, 1949) is a diversity index that is used to characterize species or genera diversity and account for their abundance and even the evenness. A high value of H would represent a diverse and equally distributed community and lower values would represent the opposite. A value of 0 would represent a community with just one species. Based on the periphyton
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