Prisons and Jails
Prisons serve as a principal form of punishment in the United States. In 1997, federal prison facilities held 99,000 inmates, while state prisons held just over one million inmates. ...
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In 1971 there were fewer than 200,000 inmates serving time in America’s state and federal prisons. During the 1980s and early 1990s, the American public’s fear of rising violent crime&mdas...
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Society has always believed in the "you do the crime, you do the time" method when somebody commits a criminal offense. Most people will probably say that criminals need to go to jail for the acts, bu...
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The Prison System
The prison system in the Victorian Age was "a place of confinement for persons labeled as unfit to live in normal society" (Smith 1). The prison system cont...
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For preventing the over crowded jails in the United States from being a drain on our society, and also to prevent the delinquents from being a burden in society.
To put away prisoners in our jails, ...
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In television, and movies prison rape is shown all the time, sometimes as comedy. For instance the term "Don't drop the soap in the shower" is used and publicized as something to be laughed at, but pr...
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Prisons and Jails
Prisons
