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    and violent prison escape attempt in Alcatraz history. It was considered the unescapable prison in that that. Although a few prisoners would challenge that claim. In the middle of all the mayhem, one inmate was injured and fourteen other guards as well, while three inmate and two correctional officers died from a bullet wound. Bernerd Paul Coy who robbed a bank, he was sentenced to twenty-six years in prison for robbery with a possession of a shotgun, made a plan to escape the prison with five…

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    few months after Ben Red was put in prison for stealing a diamond, Judge Maria was relaxing in her mansion when she received a phone call with shocking news! Ben Red, after just a few months in prison, was astute enough to find a way to escape the heavily-guarded prison in Washington D.C! She really hoped that the information she had heard wasn't authentic and was just a figment of her imagination that her brain had conjured up. Judge Maria, prior to the escape, had put the criminal in a cell…

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    Joaquin Guzman Biography

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    the news because he has escaped jail many times, including recently. The most recent time he escaped he gave Presidential-Elect Donald J. Trump the death threat. Currently “El Chapo” is in the Altiplano prison in Mexico. He has yet to escape this time but with his power and leadership he could escape at any…

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    film set in the 1940's where a young banker by the name of Andy Dufresne is sentenced to life in Portland, Oregon based Shawshank prison on a false accusation of murdering his wife and another man. The rest of the movie is based around his journey to find his identity as well as his freedom and hope in order to survive. In this maximum security prison of Shawshank, prison life is designed to be harsh and breakdown the inmate’s spirits. On the inside the inmates have to find their sense of…

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    In society today, when someone breaks the law, they are sent to prison to be punished. Prison, in one perspective, values rehabilitation for the prisoners; however, it does not actually focus on helping the prisoners. The social stigma of having the label of a prisoner is detrimental to the chance of success after they are released. Therefore, prisoner incarceration and recidivism rates in the United States are among the highest in the world. In the article "When Prisoners Are Patients," Theresa…

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    Death Penalty In Prisons

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    penalty is used for violent offenders who have been convicted of premeditated murder. The death penalty has many purposes. First, it serves as a way for prisons to clear out many of the violent offenders. Second, the death penalty provides safety for both the prison and society. Lastly, the cost to execute someone costs less than keeping someone in prison for life. The death penalty is used in 32 of our 50 states. Of those 32 states Pennsylvania is one of them. Texas is the leader in death…

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    A., & Margolin, J. (2015, June 24). NY Prison Escape: Female Employee May Have Had Sex With Other Inmates, Investigators Say. Retrieved from ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/US/ny-prison-escape-female-employee-sex-inmates-investigators/story?id=31992416 Module 4: The Ethics of Corrections. (2015, December 18). Retrieved from CSU Global Campus: https://app.schoology.com/assignment/457105499/info Santorasept, M. (28, September 2015). Joyce Mitchell, Ex-Prison Employee, Is Sentenced. Retrieved from…

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    Convicted By Murder Have you ever dreamed when you were a young teen about going to prison or your parent told you that they were going to put you in a scared straight program? A young male, Alexander Gordon Smith wrote a book called “Lockdown Escape From Furnace”. Furnace Penitentiary, in the distant future, is the world’s most secure prison for young offenders. It is buried a mile beneath the Earth’s surface. One way in and no way out. Once you're there, you're there until you die, and…

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    Alcatraz Facts

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    to repair. It was estimated to be 1-3 million dollars to fix. (Alcatraz facts) Alcatraz was one of the toughest prisons in the world. Alcatraz was the high maximum security prison. The toughest punishment was to be in a room pitch black and a hole in the ground to go to the bathroom, no mattress but at night time, and one meal a day. (Alcatraz Facts) Alcatraz has gardens when the prison was up and run. Until it closed the gardens decade. Until 2003 when the Gardens of Alcatraz partnered with…

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    areas for so the people to market drugs for a better life or take drugs as escape mechanism 0from reality. Pretty much it social control, which is the new form of eugenics 2. Who are the fact that we really incarcerating? Is incarceration effective as a deterrent? (see 5 things) People in crime infested areas, where murders, rapes, and other crimes are committed. Incarceration is a deterrent as these incarcerations as prisons are big business…

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