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    The guilty, and non-guilty. Who am I kidding, everyone's guilty even if you didn't kill the man. The only difference is the guilty admit it. The guilty have accepted their fate, prepared to spend the rest of their lives in the strict confines of prison. The looks on your families and friends faces makes you guilty. What was once a, young happy boy, who couldn't hurt anything, is now a cold hearted killer. The nons, well they will forever be in limbo, never at peace. Confusion. The only thing one

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    The prisoners will serve their sentences at this five-year-old institution or at Valley State Prison, the nation's second-largest women's prison, which recently opened across the street. The compounds occupy the tiny farm town of Chowchilla, where almond and alfalfa groves surround the 50,000-volt electrified fence. To the crop dusters above, the flat gray-and-peach buildings must look like a giant corrections butterfly, shielding up to 8,000 women in the 1,340-acre spread of its cinder-block wings

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    government that is seen as most obnoxious is collecting taxes that fund the government. Seeing as there are currently over 2.2 million people in prison, decreasing prison costs can have a large effect on how much taxes are being paid and where that money is going ( M ). If the cost of supporting prisoners is twenty-five cents cheaper a day at private prison than public ones, the money saved can have a drastic impact on the amount the government spends on prisoners. The twenty-five cents that is saved

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    discouragement for humans is through the prison system. Because of this, these humans or inmates, are sentenced to spend a significant part of their life in a confined, small room. With that being said, the prison life can leave a remarkable toll on the inmates life in many different categories. The first and arguably most important comes in the form of mental health. Living in prison with have a great impact on the psychological part of your life. For example, The prison life is a very much different way

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    essentially the Enron of the private prison industry, has long touted private prisons as an alternative to government-owned prisons. Indeed, CCA has set forth three reasons justifying the creation of private prisons for federal inmates: • Cost Effectiveness. Private prisons are less expensive to operate and will save the federal government millions of dollars. • Safety. Private prisons are effectively protect inmates’ safety. • Humane Treatment. Private prisons are modern facilities that provide

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    what I had seen. I have relatives that have been in state and local jails and prisons. The way they describe prison life is horrifying. Most of them come they are released from jail or prison say have glad they are to be and is never going back. Of course, for some that was not true. I was often told of how it is harder in prison versus being in jail. It is my opinion for some people being incarcerated in jail or prison is a challenge, simply because of the living conditions and having to follow mandatory

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    Alma Gonzalez Professor Shaw SOC 474OL 11 August 2016 Overcrowding Prisons Prisons were essentially built to accommodate a number of prisoners, but over the years, it has reached over capacity. Today in the United States, there are approximately 193,468 federal inmates that consist of the Bureau of Prisons Custody, private managed facilities and other facilities. The inmates ages range from 18- 65 with the median age being in their late 30’s. This number is counting both male and female population

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    How to go Along to get Along in Prison. Prison life Nobody ever really wants to go to prison. Within the prison walls there is a certain subculture involving norms, values, language, codes, and other miscellaneous items that the inmates learn or use in order to survive prison (state or private for profit prisons). One of the goals for prison is to protect the public while punishing the criminal by incarceration and then hopefully rehabilitate them at the end of their sentence to become productive

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    Unfit conditions in these crowded systems are common. Prison facilities are far behind and the crowded conditions are a potential life threatening danger to inmates and workers. (Miles). Most inmates have to share cells with often two or even three other people that were originally meant for one or two convicts. (Miles). Government spending on building more prisons to meet the demand is extremely high, taking away from other things and putting the economy in greater debt. “The United States needs

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    in various prisons. Most of the prisons have all type of routines adhered to by the people who are within their environment. Prisons are classified according to the level of security available and type of prisoners they accommodate. Prisons having prisoners of lowest risk levels and serving shorter sentences are referred to as minimum security prisons. Medium security prisons accommodate prisoners of slightly higher security risks such as those who are violent. Maximum security prisons have most

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