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…rates, and a sharp rise in violent offenders among white inmates therefore keeping them in prisons longer (Jacobs, 1995). A lot of the increases were due to drug convictions. From 1985 to 1992 there was a 33% increase in the number of blacks sent to state…

…Over the past nine years, the correctional boot camp has become the leading alternative to prison. Offenders mostly between the ages of nineteen and twenty-six are being sent to these boot camps to be rehabilitated. Correctional boot camps started out…

…why prisons became so overcrowded between 1985 and 1998. These factors include a 12.3 average annual increase in the number of Hispanic inmates, a 91% rise in admissions, a decline in the annual release rates, and a sharp rise in violent offenders among…

…of the equal protection of the laws. It is applied randomly at best and discriminatorily at worst. It is imposed disproportionately upon those whose victims are white, on offenders who are people of color, and on those who are themselves poor and uneducated…

…for possession or sale of drugs, provided that the offender meets certain criteria. "For example, federal law requires that a person convicted of possessing half a kilo or more of cocaine be sentenced to at least 5 years in prison" The criteria that cocaine offenses…

…. The lifecycle stages of O. kisutch that will be addressed include embryonic, fry, and juvenile and maturing adults, and the source of methyl mercury will be bottom sediment pollution by a pulp mill effluent in the near shore environment. Embryonic The effects…

…occupational prostitutes (Johnson 14 ). Other estimates are equally varied. According to Patricia Hersch,125,000 to 200,000 juveniles turn to prostitution each year. These drastic differences illustrate just how difficult the problem of counting teenage…

…without offending someone else. So instead of using plain everyday language, citizens are using more politically correct terms, so as not to step on the toes of others. A fat person is now a "person of mass" and a psychopath is now "socially misaligned…

…without directly offending anyone. Satirical writers often make light of something serious, exaggerate, something trivial, use unclear (dual) meanings, and make sarcastic statements. Huck Finn and An Honest Proposal are two great examples of satirical…

…. Most would call that murder. That is what capital punishment is--murder. One would defend capital punishment as deterrence for other violent crimes, retribution for the victim’s family or a less expensive way for dealing with offenders. But the death…