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Furthermore, the cost-effectiveness argument fails to account for the fact that private prisons typically only house healthy inmates. When cost estimates are adjusted to account for this, the results are surprising: Without adjusting for the increased medical costs imposed on state-run prisons, a 2010 Corrections Department study found that daily per inmate costs were cheaper in private prisons, at $57.97 as opposed to $60.66. However, when adjusting for medical costs, the results flipped with daily

In the novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Sal is constantly trying to find a new beginning. In search of it he goes all the way out West going through many adventures and making many friends along the way. Everywhere his travels lead him problems rise, yet Sal still follows his dream and goes out West. The West offers a lot of new opportunities to Sal and that, along with the encouragement of his friends, is the cause for his trip. In Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road the West signifies Sal’s search

For many young boys and girls, the introduction to sports is often a life changing event. For me, it has been an indelible mark of endearment that has left me captivated since my earliest memory. While I would later go on to explore other passions such as business, law, and politics, it would be the synthesis of these affections that drives my career direction and goals. In any of life’s endeavors, inspiration and guidance is derived from 3 words: Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. While these three

Introduction The 1983 film Silkwood, was inspired by Karen Silkwood of the monumental Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corp. (81-2159) whistleblowing case. Silkwood, a union activist and whistleblower who worked at the Cimarron, Oklahoma Kerr-McGee Nuclear Fuel Processing facility from August, 1972 through November 1974. While the activist was investigating alleged wrongdoing, specifically plutonium contaminations on her body and throughout her house, she was killed in a suspicious auto accident. The

The Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl was "the darkest moment in the twentieth-century life of the southern plains," (pg. 4) as described by Donald Worster in his book "The Dust Bowl." It was a time of drought, famine, and poverty that existed in the 1930's. It's cause, as Worster presents in a very thorough manner, was a chain of events that was perpetuated by the basic capitalistic society's "need" for expansion and consumption. Considered by some as one of the worst ecological catastrophes in the

A picture can tell us a thousand words and ways to show us our history. Photographers have been moving many of american 's deeply and helped support the new deal legislation from sharecroppers, farmers and migrant workers. Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, and John Vachon, were all photographers, during The Great Depression, who wanted to show the government what the world had become. Every single person that is named in this

Timothy Egan writes the book The Worst Hard Time. In the book, it has a build up to how the Dust Bowl occurred, and it explains the effects of the Dust Bowl through families that were in the plains. Then to the end of the book, things are starting to turn around when Franklin D. Roosevelt visits the Great Plains. Timothy Egan’s thesis is that from the beginning, the whole United States starts to tip the balance of the Great Plains, which led to the Dust Bowl, and the people hitting rock bottom; however

have the greatest economic value for the present and future. As citizens of Southwest, Kansas, it is our duty to conserve water for the current and future use of agriculture, municipalities, oil, and gas fields. My family and I have lived on the Cimarron River for the past 20 years. My parents drilled their own house well in 1992. Today, the water level in our house well is marginal, and will only last ten more years before we have to drill deeper. As our water is non-renewable, we may not find anything

INTRODUCTION The number of whistleblowing incidents has increased exponentially in recent years. Two of the most major being Cynthia Cooper and Sherron Watkins (Whistleblowers of both Worldcom and Enron). There has been an increase in exposure of current wrongdoings to the supervisory bodies and enforcement agencies worldwide. (Bowen et al., 2008). It's sometimes said that Ralph Nader came up with the term, but the practice of whistleblowing goes back to the late 19th century. British personnel

Project 1: Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration for the Gunnison River GEO 4314 RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT March 12, 2015 By Kevin Lockhart, Kelly Royall, and Leah May Introduction The Gunnison River in Colorado is the fifth largest tributary of the Colorado River, with its headwaters located in eastern Gunnison County, Colorado. It ranges in width from 100-1000 feet, is approximately 164 miles long, and ranges from 3-50 feet deep. It runs through the Black Canyon, a gorge that is