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Recidivism is the act of re-incarceration for inmates upon release of prison or jail and return with a new conviction. One who partakes in recidivism is referred to as a recidivist. “The Massachusetts Department of Correction (MA DOC) defines a recidivist as any criminally sentenced inmate released to the street from MA DOC jurisdiction who is re- incarcerated in a Massachusetts state, county or a federal facility for a new criminal sentence.” (mass.gov). In FY 2014 it costs about $53,040.87 to

The Intolerable acts were a set of laws intended to punish Massachusetts and the rest of the colonies for rebelling against British tax. With the Stamp acts recently repealed the colonists were feeling happy for the temporary solution, but they worried for the future and the taxes it could bring. At the same time, Britain is realizing that the colonies have more power than they would like and in order to prevent a rebellion, the empire must crack down. Even though Great Britain was justified in expecting

while the colonist are left to sink. Many acts and new taxes are passed against the colonist which anger them and cause them to boycott and protest. Rules are also passed to control the colonist. The founding fathers were justified in rebelling against the British government and declaring independence because of the treatment the British gave the colonist. Colonist began being taxed on bought goods. One tax on most paper goods was known as the Stamp Act. The colonist feel this is unfair, expensive

imposed the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, etc. It was “taxation without representation.” Many people wrote about what colonists should do. John Dickinson wrote “The Letters From a Pennsyvlanvia Farmer” and Thomas Paine wrote “Common Sense”. Both were the actions that they believed that colonist should take and their opinion on the matters. Americans rebelled with the Boston Massacre in 1770 and the Boston Tea Party in 1773 [CITE]. This caused Great Britain to enact the Coercive Acts. The Coercive

On April 27, 1773, the British Parliament passed the Tea Act, which was supposed to, as History’s article, “Tea Act,” states, “was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy.” The colonists viewed the Act as another example of the British Parliament abusing taxation. To further express the colonists’ hatred towards the Tea Act, John Green explains in his YouTube video, “Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to Revolution: Crash

to becoming rebels capable of overthrowing the most powerful government in the world? It was not one single factor that caused the colonies to rebel, but a number of missteps by the smug and out of touch English government that caused the colonies to declare their independence in July 1776. The first missteps that started the revolutionary wheels turning happened when parliament enacted the Sugar Act in 1764 followed by the Stamp Act in 1765. In the wake of the French and Indian War, Britain

A progression of tax revolts by Massachusetts ranchers against the Massachusetts law making body in 1786-1787. Shays' Rebellion, the post-Revolutionary conflict between New England ranchers and traders that tried the unsafe organizations of the new republic, debilitated to dive the divided states into a common war. The Rebellion emerged in Massachusetts in 1786, spread to different states, and finished in a failed assault on a government munitions stockpile. It slowed down in 1787 with the decision

freedom of the press. The General School Act of 1647 was the origin of modern education laws and the Maryland

paid for it. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise referred to as Obamacare, signed into law on March 23, 2010, this requires all Americans to purchase health insurance. The purchase of this care is purchased either individually or through the government market place. The act will lower

named Massachusetts Bay. The Puritans were non-separatists, which means that they did not have any desire to separate from the Church of England and their mother country Britain. This colony had a governmental structure consisting of a governor, a General Court, House of Assistants, and a House of Deputies. Each structure regulated the colony and impacted the people of Massachusetts in various ways. In 1629, a small group of Puritans sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the present Massachusetts creating