Essays Tagged: "jails"
JAIL SUICIDES PREVENTION
and incarceration itbecomes an increasingly complex situation. In fact, research indicates that the jailsuicide rate ranges from 2.5 to 13 times greater than the rate of the generalpopulation (Winkler ... serve as a catalyst ofsuicidal tendencies. Suicide is the primary cause of death in this country's jails.In 1986 there were 401 successful [jail] suicides (Winkler 19992).There are many general assum ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues
Essay discusses basic solutions for juvenile offenders, where they should be placed and what should be done.
Jails were one of the first facilities around to house juveniles. Many attempts have been made to im ... ne of the first facilities around to house juveniles. Many attempts have been made to improve these jails and also many different forms of jails have been built. The two main buildings would be the se ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
"Lost Horizon" by James Hilton
at there were no disputes amongst the inhabitants and thus, no need for police officers, courts, or jails. The aging process in Shangri-La was prolonged; most people lived well beyond one-hundred year ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
"Lost Horizon" by James Hilton
at there were no disputes amongst the inhabitants and thus, no need for police officers, courts, or jails. The aging process in Shangri-La was prolonged; most people lived well beyond one-hundred year ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Prisoner Rehabilitation
abilitation.People have two different views about the prison system. The first is that prisons are "jails" and that everyone in the "jails" should suffer for their crimes. They feel since they are cri ... ners can accept their mistakes and be rehabilitated, eventually being assimilated.I feel that that "jails" are from criminals such as rapists, murders and other criminals that clearly will never be ab ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Overcrowding in America's Prisons: Can rehabilitation help lower the growing numbers of repeat offenders?
as high crime rate and of course, mandatory sentences have caused an increased over-crowding of our jails. This has also caused and increased budget deficit. Where is the rehabilitation that once was ... tches television or even reads a newspaper has seen examples of the lack of justice in America. Our jails and prisons have become warehouses for criminals. Many who are repeat offenders or substance a ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
This Cause and Effect Essay describes how a legal case influenced a person to become a Lawyer.
il his cellmates frequently raped him, which is a common thing to happen for "rappers" in Brazilian jails. Right after a couple of years in jail he began showing signs of pneumonia, soon he was diagno ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
The Kurdish Genocide in Iraq.
and children--were killed through mass executions, chemical attacks on cities, and mistreatment in jails and state-monitored living centers. In addition, over 2,000 Kurdish cities were demolished. Al ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History
Why the British settled in NSW in 1788.
The British settled NSW in 1788. The main reason for this was jails becoming overcrowded in England and Australia being a place to send criminals. There were also ... ver this created a problem. Even the smallest crimes resulted in huge jail sentences and all of the jails became very overcrowded. The government had a short term resolution to the problem, which was ... decision of convicts being sent to NSW.It is obvious that the British government had a problem with jails overcrowding. They solved this by sending criminals to Australia to work as convicts. Settling ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
The Salem Witch Trials, and what came of it.
ause. Witchcraft. That grim diagnosis launched a Puritan inquisition that took 25 lives, filled the jails with innocent people, and jaded the soul of a Massachusetts community called Salem.The idea of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Native Incarceration in Canada.
People who live here in the Prairies know that its future landmarks are more likely to be jails than grain elevators. Here, it has become fact that a male aboriginal has a better chance of g ... tal number of inmates is 1,393. The number of Native inmates is 822. This becomes a 59% rate in the jails. In Saskatchewan the total number of inmates is 3,850. The number of Native inmates is 2,926. ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Prohibition
of tears is over. The slums will soon be a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile and children will ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized
prisoners that are incarcerated are due to drugs. In other words, we have to build more prisons and jails to hold the real criminals because the majority of the prisons are full with drug offenders.B. ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
The Growth of the Modern Church in Australia
ere mostly Irish convicts who were sent out for committing a crime. They were sent here because the jails in England were getting over crowded and they need to find a place for them. Most Catholics th ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Mental Health Care Reform
were incurable and incapable of any sense of sensation. They were most often erroneously placed in jails, poorhouses, asylums, or wandered freely about. It was not until 1742 that the mentally ill ci ... se incapable of caring for themselves. However this only succeeded in placing more ailing people in jails or similar situations where the care was excessively cruel and consistently futile. It was not ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Finding A Way Out. A cause and effect paper on the disease of addiction...
llingness and removing one-self from self-obsession, the end results are statistically proven to be jails, institutions and death. An individual will seek escape from the reality of life on life's ter ... rugs. We are people in a grip of continuing and progressive illness whose ends are always the same, jails, institutions and death. (3)As the disease of addiction takes over your mind the effects can a ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
IRAq Vs AMERICA
legislation and continues today with mandatory sentencing has simply added to our already bursting jails." (I agree, and thats concerned important)"The policy of my government is that he goes," Bush ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Black September and the 1972 olympic games paper and bibliography
ook eleven Israeli hostages and began demanding the release of prisoners in both Israeli and German jails. Black September was a terror organization formed by the Palestine Liberation Organizat ... simple, yet uneven, trade of souls. They demanded the release of the 234 terrorists held in Israeli jails, the release of the two terrorists in German prisons (Munich September 5, 1972), and safe tran ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Probation and Parole: A Comparative View
Probation and parole are the primary alternatives to jails and prisons while there are many similarities between these two systems there are a few obviou ... habilitating the offender. Furthermore, probation and parole serve to reduce prison overcrowding in jails and prisons and to protect society. Although, the latter of the two is argumentative due to th ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Crime
Crime in today's world has become more gruesome with the times. With the crimes comes jail, so more jails are being built for the prisoners. More people are be criminals are being sent to jail and get ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers