Overcrowding Essay

Lusitania Disaster. Setting sail from New York harbor on May 1, 1915, the R.M.S. Lusitania began a voyage to Liverpool, England. This voyage would be her last; and the last for over 1,000 of her passengers. Of the 1,959 men, women, and children aboard, only 761 passengers would survive the voyage. While on the seas, word made it to the ship that the seas would be increasingly inhabited with German submarines the closer they got to England, so to better prepare the passengers they readied the…

The incarceration rate in the United States is the highest in the world. There are more than one million people in the United States that are in a correctional facility. The causes for overcrowding include little attention given to social problems the average cost to house a prisoner in a correctional facility is approximately $ 25, 000 per year. Today, in America, some prisoners are living worse than some third world countries just because some little petty crimes such as having weed on…

Change for the Better? When people think of the industrialization the hoi polloi would usually think of how much it helped Americans towards the future. Well they would not be in the wrong for thinking that, but the industrial revolution was not the bright age of progression most people think it to be. It was also a dark time for the general populous of America. Between 1830 and 1900, the United States population grew by 595%. With the sudden population growth, cities became overcrowded and…

committed, society expects an appropriate punishment to be enforced on the offender. Due to a lack of alternatives, the prison system has become the default mode of punishment. The broken prison system suffers from a multitude of problems such as overcrowding, institutional racism and violence. The reliance on imprisonment as punishment has contributed to record high levels of incarcerated peoples. Due to the difficulty that reforming the current prison system would involve, an alternative…

Life comes with a lot of gifts, and parenthood is one of them. Creating someone with the person you love and watching them grow can be the greatest joy of ones’ life. When a child enters into the world parents commit to always protect them from the harsh realities of our world. Unforturentaly, tragic events take place every day that are out of ones’ control. Brain death is defined as a person no longer having neurological activity in the brain or brain stem. Meaning no electrical impulses are…

Chapter 2 - The Private Rented Sector Private renting means housing that is owned by private individual, company or organisation. Private rented sector plays important role in providing accommodation for all sorts of different household and people. There have been increasing in the private rented sector over the past 25 to 30 years. There are now more than 9 million private renters in England. This growth has been particularly rapid since 2001 with the introduction of Buy to Let mortgage finance…

The ongoing violence and corruption in the Middle East Mostly from the Syrian civil war has resulted in 200,000 innocent people lives and has encouraged thousands of people to flee their country in search of protection and peace. Most refugees flee from Syria and Afghanistan to European countries that sometimes welcomes them, but other times they are horribly mistreated. How they are treated usually depends on what country they arrive in, what the countries government can afford to provide for…

Essay 2 (1,000 words) 'Is building more and more prisons the best solution? ' The primary purpose of prison is to protect the community and rehabilitate the offender (Smart Justice, 2015). Research has indicated that prison fails to do this and instead can increase rate of reoffending (Smart Justice, 2015). Prison does not address the causes of the person’s criminal offending. Imprisonment is designed to be a sentence of last resort, yet we are building more prisons at an ever increasing…

did not originally start in the United States, it evolved greatly in the 19th century following the practices of the Australians, English, and Irish. The practices in these countries were to essentially move prisoners out of the prisons due to overcrowding, labor shortages, and the high cost of incarceration (Clear). Indeterminate sentencing, on the other hand, gives more control over the time prisoners serve to correctional officials and parole boards. New York was the first to pass an…

Should animal cruelty be illegal? Animal cruelty is also known as animal abuse or animal neglect, which is when someone hurts and animal or does not care for an animal responsibly. Animal cruelty has been apart of the society since the ancient ages. People don’t actually see the different parts of animal cruelty, they just see it as having pets, going hunting, using them for experiments, making them fight each other, and used for entertainment. According to the ASPCA, “150,000 American horses…