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According to The Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights, in 2005 21% of inmates in the United States suffered from serious mental illness. (Incarceration and Mental Health, n.d.) From 1980 to 2013, the number of people incarcerated for drug offenses grew from 41,000 to nearly 500,000; most of the arrests were for possession. This leaves the criminal justice system to deal with substance abuse and addiction. (Incarceration, Substance Abuse, and Addiction, n.d.) Additionally, The Center for Prisoner

Development Goals (MDGs). Eight goals that the United Nations Millennium Campaign have set out to achieve by 2015, which include; “Eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, universal primary education, gender equality and female empowerment, the reduction of child mortality, the improvement of maternal health, fighting HIV/AIDS, malaria and other serious diseases, environmental sustainability and finally a global partnership for development”(SOURCE http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/goals/index.htm)

The Causes of Poverty in Mexico | |[pic] |Are you aware that 20 million people in Mexico live on less than two dollars a day? Sixty million people, half the Mexican | |population, live in poverty, and 20 million of them live in extreme poverty. Most of the time, garbage is their food, and some | |days, they don’t even eat anything. This critical situation in Mexico is caused by individual, geographic and political factors. | |The purpose of this essay is to analyze these three main causes

Why Millennium Development Goals Are Essential to Our Nation We live in a world that is dangerously out of balance. There are 1.1 billion people living on less than one dollar a day, an additional 1.7 billion people living on less than 2 dollars a day, more than 115 million children uneducated, and over 40 million people are HIV positive. These numbers show that there is great misery and unnecessary death in our world and that billions of people have little opportunity to lead a decent life and

Inhalt 1. Capability Approach and Amartya Sen 1 1.1. Amartya Sen 1 1.2. Capability Approach 1 1.3. Functioning and Capability 2 1.3.1. Functioning 2 1.3.2. Capability 2 1.4. Capability Approach and Human Development 3 1.5. Human Development – a shift in development theory and policy 3   Capability Approach and Human Development Amartya Sen Amartya Sen is an Indian scholar and Nobel Prize laureate in economics. He grew up and witnessed the great famine in India, when 2-3 million people died.

The Citizen Report (2007) attempted to analyze the progress towards realization of MDGs in the Madhya Pradesh (MP). The study found that Madhya Pradesh had huge poverty especially the urban poverty. The decline in poverty was slow. Urban poverty was also the fall out of rural poverty as very and poor move to urban slums to eke out livelihood. The report revealed that the present situation did not reflect that poverty goals could be fulfilled by 2015. Efforts are required to enhance livelihood avenues

While the explanations of underdevelopment differed, experts such as Brooks and Hallward viewed the natural disaster in Haiti to be so destructive mainly due to its poverty. By diminishing the level of poverty in countries such as Haiti, it is possible to make them less vulnerable to many of the problems they face. To reduce poverty it is important for societies to accept development strategies. What exactly is development and how can it be achieved? Development is a process in which we attempt to

For those of you that are interested in the aiding of Haiti, Look no further; there are plenty of ways to help in the Haitian community! For various people, it may seem that Haiti is in a constant state of desperation. Meanwhile, it also may seem that nobody is concerned about Haiti at all. But now, plentiful people are actually taking Haiti’s state of desperation into consideration. Haiti’s state of desperation is important by reason of the neglect, pain, and suffering that the wonderful citizens

Bulloch County was formed on February 8, 1796. Cities such as Statesboro, Portal, Brooklet, and Register makes up this county. The City of Statesboro is located in the southeastern corner of Georgia, at approximately 13 square miles with an average elevation of 240 feet above sea level (stateboroga.gov). Statesboro is the largest city out of Bulloch County with an average population of 27,000 residents (visitstatesboroga). The city consist of 15,457 Whites, 11,402 Black/African American, 847 Hispanic/Latino

Nurses have played a critical role defending Insite 's program and services (Keepnews, 2011) The Canadian Nurses Association, Registered Nurses Association of Ontario and the Association of Registered Nurses of British Columbia, all support Insite (Bard, 2011). Nurses are placed in a difficult situation when caring for IDU 's and are given constitutional protection, without which, they would expose themselves and other staff to criminal charges simply for caring for their patients (Bard, 2011).