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    Charter was signed in San Francisco in 1946, unemployment insurance increased, the state sales tax was reduced, and pensions for the elderly were raised. He developed the State Department of Mental Hygiene and led reforms of the prison system in California by establishing the Board of Corrections and the Prisoner Rehabilitation Act” (California State Library). Warren also built up the state's higher education system based on the University of California and its vast network of small universities and

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    The United States has 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of the world’s prison population, clearly indicating that too many people are being incarcerated as a direct result of the mandatory minimum sentences. The continued increase of people in prison has been found to be caused by the “war on drugs” and harsher penalties for certain types of offenses. All of these have to do

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    offenders. “Most drug prisoners will return to the community after a couple years away, and will then return to prison because we have not dealt with the complex set of core issues that lead to them ending up incarcerated in the first place” (McVay). We cannot simply arrest our way out of the nation’s drug problem. There must be programs developed which incorporate the structure of prison along with individualized rehabilitation. In Peele’s article, he provides very strong evidence that medically

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    Monroe College Current Issues in the Criminal Justice System   Thesis Statement This research paper will focusing on incarcerated female inmates in the US prison system. Mainly the systemacy, environment and also the ills which is hindering its advancement of this sector of the criminal justice system. Also, diving into the diversity, political affiliations etc.  For centuries the general public have perceived that the deep horrors of the prison system only existed within the majority of incarcerated

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    Summary The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration on the Age Colorblindness written by legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, explores a new caste system that targets black or brown men across improvised communities in the United States. According to Alexander, The New Jim Crow laws were created to hinder the growth of black or brown men by using the criminal justice system to enslave them into a vicious cycle of oppression. The Jim Crow laws that relished our nation’s history so many years earlier has resurfaced

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    Trump VS Clinton Economics When it comes to Economics, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton rarely agree on the same issue. For instance, on the issue of stimulus vs a market-led recovery, Donald Trump strongly thinks that the Federal Government should stay out of it as much as possible, whereas Hillary Clinton disagrees and thinks that help from the government would help the market. This is just one of the many economic issues that they strongly disagree on, Including citizenship for illegal immigrants

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    The federal court system consists of three levels. The leading and nethermost is the United States district courts. Secondly, the middle level is the court of appeals. The Supreme Court is reflected as the uppermost law court in the United States. The United States district courts comprise of the ordinary federal provisional courts, even though in many circumstances the legislature has approved acts that dissuade unusual authority to these particular courts or executive law juries. The Courts of

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    The judicial system incarcerate based on crimes leading to punishment within the penal system. Although crime has reduced since 1990, the population in these facilities have risen immensely. The intervention of these negative behaviors have lead to disparities within the prison complex. The contribution to prevent and dismay the activity leading to convictions and crime should be conquered through adequate programs. The goal of prevention should be to educate, acknowledge and be an activist. My thesis

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    ones are handled much better than the old cases mainly because lawyers and judges know how to deal with a specific situation more. Gideon’s Trumpet talks about the highs and lows when dealing with the Supreme Court system. This book focuses on the fair and unfairness of the court system and how Clarence Earl Gideon’s case was handled by those in control. Gideon’s Trumpet discusses a trial that may or may not have been done fairly. Clarence Earl Gideon believes that he was denied due process of law

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    Justice Is Up To Us From the very beginning, people have fought. Rather it be over food, shelter, land, or money, these disagreements have remained ever-present in our societies. Where there is disagreement, there must eventually be a solution. Most of the time this solution can come from the individual, or individuals, involved in the disagreement. When necessary, a third, impartial party is to step in and fairly decide what is to happen. Out of all the commotion, no one ever stops to think, “What

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