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US Prison Systems Have you ever wondered what life was like locked up behind bars? Most people don’t even give it a second thought; we’re used to having our freedoms and living a normal life. However, life is not that simple for everyone; for not everyone knows how to abide by the rules. Inmates don’t get the same basic rights as we do, that gets taken away from them when they violate the social norms with their deviant behavior. There are a wide number of reasons why people get…

The United States is a prison society. We have the highest incarceration rate in the world – more than historically harsh societies such as Russia and China; we sentence people to longer sentences than other nations; and we are one of the only developed countries who still practice the death penalty. Our rate of incarceration increased a staggering 700% from 1970 to 2005 (banking on bondage pg 5, 11) and, as of 2013, 1 out of every 110 adults in the USA are in jail or prison, with a further 1 in…

The strongest reason businesses such as bars and restaurants covering all the arena are because of the big crowd of people who show up for game nights. The weakest reason is the creation of jobs. Even though the arena will need the number of people to work but it won 't be worth it because of…

In 2004, Canada and the United States implemented the Safe Third Country Agreement – a bilateral agreement modeled after the (then) Dublin Convention of the European Union (Macklin, 2005; Arbel, 2013). As a vital bilateral agreement between Canada and the United States, has the Safe Third Country Agreement caused more harmful implications surrounding refugee claimants than beneficial? Indeed, the Safe Third Country Agreement has caused adverse implications for refugee claimants, as a multitude…

without the mention of slavery that caused much suffering to African Americans. The war of 1812 that came shortly after America’s ndependence was another milestone in American history that cannot be forgotten (Horsman). The one time president of the United States, Andrew Jackson was adversely mentioned in the slave history because of his positive contribution towards the freeing of the American slaves during his tenure as the president. America’s early history revolves around slavery and war…

Due to fear invoked by terrorist groups like ISIS in the Middle East, especially Syria, many natives have been forced to leave their home country to find refuge in other countries, like the United States. America now faces the important decision of whether to allow or deny several thousand Syrian refugees into the country. In making this decision, the government must consider the few issues that stand out the most. The Republicans prominently voice their uneasiness over the national security…

dropped significantly. But minority enrollment increased because of new outreach programs. Enrollment has not gotten back to what it was during affirmative action. (Nytimes06) this happens in other states that ban affirmative action. But sadly still 97 percent of corporate senior executives in the United States are white. Only 5 percent of all professionals are black and Hispanics hold only 4 percent of white-collar jobs.…

The irony in mass incarceration in the United States is that its purpose is to deter crime, yet it does the exact opposite. Contrary to modern belief, mass incarceration in the United States has increased drastically. Many factors can contribute to the uprising in incarceration. Though prison’s sole purpose is to deter crime, it in fact increases it. Sources suggest that first time offenders, and ex-convicts are highly likely to commit another crime after leaving prison, thus depicting the…

Some offenders return to prison or jail because of new crimes, but others go back for violating parole and probation conditions. “Over 230,000 parole violators were admitted to prison in 2005, accounting for more than one-third of all admissions”. (Public Safety Policy, 2007) In order to rise the success of people in parole and probation is to keep them crime and drug free. Keeping offender’s crime and drug free seems to be a common violation that leads the offender to be incarcerated.…

powerful, world of Gods, is one of the more common and important religious beliefs. Believing in sacred people, Buddha and Jesus, is another common type of religious belief. Human beings, in some religions, who have reached the highest possible spiritual state or have been specially inspired, are seen as these. However in other religions, it is believed that a God has taken the form of a human (Crotty, Crotty, Habel, Moore & O’Donoghue, 2003, p. 7). Christianity believes in the unseen and…