Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003

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    they are treated as adults is in New York’s justice system. New York is only one of two states in the country that treats 16 and 17-year-olds like adults in its criminal justice system. Each year, 4,700 adolescents are sentenced to time in adult prisons and jails. According to the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy (2013), 16 and 17-year olds are all processed in adult criminal court instead of family court no matter how serious the offense. Charges include but are not limited to…

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    Because prisons were not in existence until the late 1700’s and early 1800’s, societies dealt with repeat offenders and those who posed a threat to public safety and social order by administering various forms of capital punishment. While early colonial laws did not mimic those of the extreme English laws where some 200 crimes qualified for the death penalty, the colonies believed that crimes such as murder, rape, sodomy, adultery, and some property crimes were worthy of death (Acker, 2003). In…

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    inmates. As time goes on, will prisons be able to solve or reduce future violent crimes from the 1,163,146 violent crimes that…

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    The juvenile prison experience As a juvenile is sentenced to prison at a young age he might face many difficulties while prison he or she are going to be the youngest prisoners there and will make them an easy target. It won’t be easy for them but there are laws that have been passed to protect these juveniles from being victimized in prison. In some states juvenile can be charged as an adult at such a young age and research has shown that putting in a child or juvenile is not the best thing…

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    working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, and Intersex populations (Leach, 2008). While LGBTI is an evolving community outside of the prison setting, the prison setting now has evolved including a greater population of LGBTI offenders. The group proposal surrounds offenders of LGBTI status and the abuse that follows their orientation inside the prison or in society. Issue-Supportive Research According to Donald L. Leach II, Ph.D., the government’s responsibility is to provide for…

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