learned about the need for therapeutic environments, interactions, and opportunities for underrepresented prison populations. In order to help FFLIC advocate for policy change at a state level, my colleagues and I authored a white paper that outlined recommendations to reduce recidivism rates for juvenile offenders in Louisiana, such as offering more educational and vocational programs in prisons and implementing community-based alternatives to incarceration. Through my research, I discovered that community-based
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insolvency status that released small and middling debtors from jail and apportioned their assets among creditors but did not discharge them from liability". "Bankruptcy was promoted as a benefit for creditors as well as for Debtors. it would allow creditors to intervene in person as the debtors assets for all creditors while the availability of discharge would induce debtor's not to waste their assets in futile efforts to avoid deptors prisons" Encyclopedia of the new American nation.ed. paul finkelman
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instructor Subject Date Political problems The paper will be illuminating the social and political problems that Americans have been facing since time in memorial. It has been too long since Americans suffered the problems of poverty, unemployment, violent crimes, education, and health care. Since this is an election year it is imperative to note the various issues and solutions that candidates have formulated for these problems(Bernstein). The paper will also cover the manifestos and proposals that
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Coming into language n weekend graveyard shifts at St. Joseph’s Hospital I worked the emergency room, mopping up pools of blood and carting plastic bags stuffed with arms, legs, and hands to the outdoor incinerator. I enjoyed the quiet, away from the screams of shotgunned, knifed, and mangled kids writhing on gurneys outside the operating rooms. Ambulance sirens shrieked and squad car lights reddened the cool nights, flashing against the hospital walls: gray-red, gray-red. On slow nights I would
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Her first husband, Danael's father, was abusive and is in jail. She keeps getting involved with the same type of men, abusive mentally and physically. While her bruises healed, her physiological scars are not going away. David, the father of her younger daughter, Desiree, appeared to be a good guy until he sexually molested one of the daughters and is currently in jail. Also, Donna holds a job at a local factory where workers do not get paid allot neither in wages
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Criminal Defense Case Analysis Melissa Bowman CJA/305 January 30, 2016 Jerri Green Introduction This paper will go over two cases that explain the nature and types of defense used and the evidence used to demonstrate the defense. The first case explained will discuss Andrea Yates, a mom who killed her five children on grounds of insanity. The next case Jean Harris also claimed to be insane and by accident killed someone by accident as she tried to commit suicide. It will also address how
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diseases combined. Benefits I will start off with the pros of legalizing drugs which are the following, tax dollars earned from sales, less tax dollars spent on housing inmates for drug possession, and less broken homes from people being hauled off to prison. Two senior lecturers at the University of Harvard have conducted studies to show how much revenue would come from legalizing drugs. In their findings they saw that there would be over 40 billion dollars in tax revenue. Over 8 billion from marijuana
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reinstating the right to use this natural product. A large majority of this country's population refuses to accept the United States government’s decision to prohibit citizens from enjoying the benefits that this organically grown herb provides. In my paper I will research and have knowledge on the legalization and political issues about marijuana. Most Americans do not want to spend scarce public funds incarcerating nonviolent marijuana offenders, at a cost of $23,000 per year. Politicians must
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Site Visit to the Travis County Adult Probation SMART Program Tony Lee Merriwether HSCS/311 June 23, 2014 Sheri Meyer Site Visit to the Travis County Adult Probation SMART Program This paper is an overview of adult probation program designed to provide an alternative to incarceration. The Texas Criminal Justice Program designed the program as a diversionary mechanism to provide comprehensive treatment to offenders that require treatment for substance abuse and chemical dependency. The
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did not agree this aggressive war. To resist, he refused to pay the Massachusetts poll tax, which was a “per head” tax imposed on all citizens to help support the Mexican War. His refusal landed him in the Concord jail in 1846. As he stood considering the walls of solid stone in prison, he ridiculed the foolishness of the administration. He criticized the administration for imprisoning him, because his chief desire was not to stand in the other side of that stone wall. He declared that under a government
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