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The True Effectiveness of Administrative Segregation The use of segregation in prisons can be dated back for probably as long as locking someone up has been a form of punishment. Although in today’s society and more specifically in prison the “lock away and throw away the key method” has seemed to really get more out of control. When judging how effective this method really is there are several different factors to take into consideration, as well as several different opportunities to…

The United States is facing a drug epidemic within its borders. According to the website drugabuse.gov (n.d.), abuse of tobacco, alcohol, and especially illegal drugs has cost $700 billion dollars annually. Illicit drugs in particular are responsible for $11 billion in health care costs annually, and $193 billion in total costs which includes law enforcement, lost productivity, and healthcare. These growing costs and the recent heroin epidemic is prompting lawmakers to look into policy…

Wrongful convictions are an atrocious act; wrongfully stripping an individual of his God given freedom for majority of his or her life and attempting to compensate them with monetary settlements cannot rectify such a heinous situation. Eyewitness misidentification is the greatest contributing factor to wrongful convictions proven by DNA testing, playing a role in more than 70% of convictions overturned through DNA testing nationwide. Ronald Cotton is a prime example of how unreliable eyewitness…

The 2016 Presidential Election is a hot topic in America at the moment. One of the most intense rivalries in the campaign is between Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Currently, Secretary Clinton is the front runner of the Democratic party, followed closely behind by Senator Sanders. With a long career in the White House, She seems like the obvious Democratic nominee. However, Sanders’s cult like following strongly opposes to anything said by Clinton. The main question is, why? As…

We Can But Dare We? Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 360: Information Systems in Healthcare Olubusola Oladipo We Can But Dare We? The social media is designed to be a platform for communication, entertainment and education where people come together to share information, get in touch with old friends and family members, and learn new trends like fashion, watch videos, and get educated on specific information. “Social media are defined as “a group of Internet-based applications…

Bullying: repeated aggression or harassments directed at targets that are disadvantaged, different, or less robust then the said bully (Thornburg, Rosenqvist, and Johansson 1). Being able to picture the way a person receiving the bully’s harsh treatment is somewhat easier than trying to decipher what exactly is going through the oppressors’ consciousness. This may be because it is easier to feel bad for the person getting bullied than understanding why the bully is the way they are. There has…

later they were married. My dad was the youngest of seven, and because my parents were young and my grandparents were aging, we stayed and lived with my grandparents out on that farm for all of my childhood. My father was a railroad worker for Burlington Northern when I was younger, until he was laid off, after that he worked several jobs, whatever he could find here and there, until he passed away at age 37. My mother had mostly worked waitressing jobs, until she received a college…

Senator Bernie Sanders is a Senator from Vermont who started his life of politics at a young age. Senator Sanders comes from a family of immigrants, his father came to America in 1921 at the age of 17. With his father being an immigrant this undoubtedly shaped the way he views immigrant laws. Living in Brooklyn in the early 1930’s, Senator Sanders became aware of Hitler’s rise to power and tyranny. Being Jewish himself, watching millions of innocent people of his own religion die in the hands of…

Values Across Pop Culture Have you ever watched a movie or an episode of TV? Have you seen how society values other people and their objects? It is just straight up trash how we treat people nowadays. What about music? Have you actually listened to what the singer is saying? It is all putting negative images in the listeners head. Possibly one of the most negative affects of social networking or media is that it causes the users to get addicted. A value is a general idea that certain types of…

John DeLeonibus Marist College Ethics in Healthcare Delivery PA 601 10/23/2016 Ethical Issues in the Care of Terminal Patients Dealing with patients who suffer with devastating, life-threatening disease is, unfortunately, a common and especially scary job for health care professionals who must bring together the principles of professional behavior, informed consent and end-of-life decision-making with their own expectations for the health, well-being and survival of such patients. The…