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Felon disenfranchisement is a common practice in the United States and occurs when incarcerated felons and ex-felons are denied certain rights, specifically their right to vote. Felonies vary between violent and nonviolent crimes and are considered to be more serious than misdemeanors. Depending on the crime and the state, conviction of a felony can lead to a minimum of one year in prison. Despite the crime and conviction, the question of whether or not an incarcerated felon or ex-felon has the…

Intro: The corrections system in the United States has been under scrutiny over the years. Since the early 1900’s the inmate population in the United States has continued to grow. No other country in the world has such a high percentage of its population incarcerated. Roughly 750 out of every 100,000 people are incarcerated in the U.S. The world average is only 166 per 100,000, proving that we are extremely high (Webb, 2007). It is known that one of the main reasons for our high number of…

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interests. In so doing, we will be representing both of you. At this stage, it does not appear that there is a conflict of interest that would prevent us from representing you. Each of your interests appear to be harmonious at this time. However, the State Bar Ethics Rules require that we tell you that potential conflict of interest…

Name: Institution: Lecturer: Date: California’s Prison Policy Introduction The problem of over population in California has become a very big issue for a very long time. Crime rate in California has increased over the past years. Some of these crimes include non-violent and non-serious offenses such as drug possession. According to Philip and Jens, prison is not the only option for controlling crime but making the case for alternative approaches has historically been an uphill crime. (2011)…

Legal cases not dealing with the death penalty generally cost around $740,000, while death penalty cases cost around $1.26 million. Maintaining each death row prisoner costs taxpayers $90,000 more per year than a prisoner in the general population. California abolished the death penalty in 2014, but not before spending $4 billion on their “justice.” $4 billion sounds like a large amount of money, but a grand total of 13 prisoners were…

According to the California Disaster Center Statistics Online Web Site (2015), in 1990, California had a population of an estimated 29.7 million people, and about 3.9 million crimes. The categories of the crimes included in this statistical report were the following: violent crimes, property crimes, murders, forcible rapes, robberies, cases of burglary, larceny-thefts, vehicle thefts, and aggravated assaults. The Disaster Center has also provided us with statistics for the year 2014, which…

amendment should be the dissolution of Electoral College and putting popular vote into place. The founding fathers had their reasons for basing American presidential elections off Electoral College. However, today the reasons are out-of-date. Wanting to bar a more direct democracy in order to make an inaccurate model of America’s representation is simply foolish now that advanced nations recognize people as equals, so every person's vote should actually count. The controversial political race…

Monsanto’s cash cow herbicide Roundup is now making waves both in the United States and across the pond. Documents brought to light in American court cases have European officials investigating the truth of Monsanto’s safety claims, further entangling the company in its misdeeds ahead of government decisions on the safety of glyphosate, the weed killer’s main ingredient. Glyphosate has been linked to the development non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). Court cases alleging the connection unsealed…

filming their own movie. This fact implies that Dennis had knowledge about the damage done to the pavement. If anything, Charlie was less aware of the foreseeable risk as he had polled the bar before giving Dennis the green light to use the door. This is further explained by the Negligence law of California. Not only does the plaintiff need to prove that a duty exists, but also that there was a clear breach of duty. The most relevant part of this law is as follows: “one's general duty of…