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    Morris. He was the first prisoner to escape the horrible Alcatraz. Many people around the globe think the prisoners died while trying to escape, some evidence proves that they are still alive. The year is 1962, Frank Morris, Clarence and John Anglin escaped the worst prison of all Alcatraz, and lived to tell the tale. According to,”History.com,” the FBI did an investigation on Alcatraz to figure out if the three escapists lived or died during the riskie escape attempt. June 11, 1962, the three…

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    qualities, characteristics, nature of the crime committed psychological conditions and treatment needs among other things, and based on this information the officer then proceeds to assign him/her to the most appropriate custody classification and prison. This procedure is done with the intent to maximize the effectiveness of placements…

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    two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to a tough prison. However, only Andy knows he didn’t commit the crimes. Andy deals with death of freedom by him convincing the warden to let him be the banker of the prison, digging a hole leading to his freedom, and by taking money from the warden. The death of freedom can sometimes cause a person to act in extreme ways. Upon learning that he will never leave the prison as long as the warden is…

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    as conveyed in the article, Alcatraz. Prohibition caused a crime wave The Crime wave led to super gangsters Super Gangsters could not be in a regular prison. Alcatraz was built to hold the super gangsters. It happened to be a prison on an island it was named Alcatraz. Let's get started! I think that Alcatraz was a prison different from other prisons and that it was necessary to have it. So the first reason is because it was meant for super criminals. Alcatraz needed extra security. Some security…

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    The Downfall of Private Prisons The privatization of jails and prisons in the United States are becoming more and more popular with 122 adult prisons and 252 juvenile facilities, capable of holding more than 160,000 inmates for the past 8 years. These facilities have pros and cons however, 32 states contract with private sector prisons and almost 17 percent of adult inmates are held in private prisons. (Allen, Latessa, and Ponder) The major arguments against privatization are cost, insurance,…

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    North Korean Prison Camps Trace J. Maddux Campus High School Concentration camp or strict prison? The thing about these prison camps, not many people are aware of the bad things that happen inside them. Someone says “prison” and people think, “place where they put bad people.” Generally speaking, yes, a prison is where most countries put the murderers, rapists, robbers. North Korea always likes to do things a bit different from the rest of the world. North Korea is a country that not many…

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    Going to school is the same as going to prison. On the first day of being in prison, we all meet up in the main hall and the warden gives us instructions. All of the prisoners are divided up into different halls, and we have a designated prison guard. Some prison guards are nice, but usually they are mean. The prisoners that have been here for a long time can get away with more because they suck-up to the warden and the guards. If we do something bad, we go into the isolation room, where we are…

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    sentence in prison for murder or so the judge wrongfully sentenced Bj Blaskovich. Angry and resentful about his situation, he decided that he couldn’t spend his life in a cell in prison and Rott away. He began plotting ways to escape from the jail. Blaskovich became good friends with one of the prison caretakers. Her job was to bury any prisoners who died, in a graveyard just outside the prison walls. Whenever a prisoner died, the caretaker rang a bell, which was heard by all of the prison…

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    will escape. Which makes sense because once a prisoner knows they 're in prison for life without parole many have the thought to try and escape. Escape doesn 't happen often, but there have been a few files of people who have escaped that were facing the death penalty. There was a case of the six inmates who were facing death row and escaped from Mecklenburg Maximum security center on 1984.(Bovsun,Par1). From reading this, I see why people would be terrified if a killer escaped from prison and…

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    stories about the innocent and the guilty people in one prison. The prisoners try to entertain themselves with mind tricks to lure in new prisoners and bets that involve contraband that some of the guards know about. Escape is one of the main and most important themes of the movie it is shown in many different forms by many of the characters such as Brooks, Red and Andy Dufresne. Escape is shown when Brooks is told that he is leaving the prison, Brooks does not accept this and threaten one of…

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