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    (Brown, 2016, p. 8). However, when the FBI tried to unlock this iPhone, they discovered that the security system in place on it would erase everything on the phone if more than ten unsuccessful attempts to open it occur. As a result, the Department of Justice asked Apple to help them gain access to the phones data (Sydell & Wertheimer, 2016).

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    Running a country using a central government has always been a topic of debate. How do a handful of people govern the free will of millions of others? The details of the word “govern” used in the previous statement have evolved into a seemingly endless quantity of laws, acts, policies, taxes, rules, parties, and on goes the list. Though government is growing evermore punctilious in it’s outward appearance, these meticulously crafted “rules” or “guidelines” are the tools used by the government

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    Privacy is a respectable notion that most of us ask for. Countries fight each other for it, people get arrested if they invade it, and it is one of the biggest issues in The United States of America. Privacy is a big topic here because a lot of people care about what others see, how they see them, and how they interpret what they do. However, the National Security Act was placed in 1974 for America’s citizens to be protected from the people around us and from other countries that could pose a threat

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    recognized by an array of participants in the criminal justice system that there is an incredible amount of people in federal prison today. A significant reason for this is that too many nonviolent drug offenders have been sentenced to prison terms that are greater than necessary. The impact of the current amendments, slowly but surely, supports retroactive application throughout the incarceration system. Retroactive application is a matter of simple justice: It is unfair for thousands of prisoners to continue

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    (Brown, 2016, p. 8). However, when the FBI tried to unlock this iPhone, they discovered that the security system in place on it would erase everything on the phone if more than ten unsuccessful attempts to open it occur. As a result, the Department of Justice asked Apple to help them gain access to the phone’s data (Sydell & Wertheimer, 2016).

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    this scandal is so troubling. It boils down to this: As an attorney, I want to know that the U.S. Attorney is: Upholding the law. Acting ethically. Acting professionally. Working not for convictions in criminal cases or wins in civil cases but justice. That their choice of cases and prosecutions is based not on raw politics but on the public interest My limited experience here in South Dakota-under U.S. Attorneys appointed by both Democrat and Republican Presidents-is that the U.S. Attorney 's

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    Drug Courts Haley Klimesh Community-Based Corrections September 29, 2017 Drug Courts Drug courts are problem solving courts that take a public health approach using a specialized model in which the judiciary, prosecution, defense bar, probation, law enforcement, mental health, social service, and treatment communities work together to help addicted offenders into long-term recovery. Drug courts began in 1989 in Florida, because it was assumed that people that had first time offenses with

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    The Bureau has over 39,000 employees and multiple prisons throughout the United States. This agency analysis will briefly describe the agency at the national level, but will primarily focus on the agency I intern at by taking a look specifically at the role of psychology services. The Federal Bureau of Prisons is a law enforcement agency serving under the United States Department of Justice. In 1891, Congress passed the Three Prisons Act, which authorized the establishment of the first three Federal

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    How would you like it if someone had access to your personal computer files at any given moment? What if your personal files were posted all around the world on television, magazines, newspapers, etc. without your permission? How would this possible you ask? Easy, the Russian Government sent Google an email asking them for access to your cloud storage. Google gave it to them with no questions. Everything is ok though because Google sent you an email saying the Russian Government was investigating

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    Brandon Plascencia Professor Carrie Morrow English 205 30 November 2014 Contemporary Outlaws Today’s modern outlaws are closely similar to the outlaws in western movies. They take from the powerful groups in the community and give to the needy. Today’s outlaws are following in the similar steps but, in a digital world. The digital world is now the modern Wild West because it’s a new frontier that keeps growing without control, and laws are still being set in place so everyone online is free to

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