(American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correctional facility, lock-up or remand center is a facility in which inmates (or prisoners) are confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as ...
According to psychologists,one percent of the population is a psychopath. A psychopath isn't what you probably think he is. Although 25% of male inmates are psychopaths, psychopaths are rarely violent. You probably know a few psychopaths. There's a 1% chance that you are one. There are1 m...
3. To deduct as a discount: took 20 percent off. 4. To discontinue: took off the commuter special. 5. To spend (time) away from work or an activity: I'm taking off three days in May. I took last week off and now I have a lot of work to do. 6. To go or leave: took off...
Aside from the question of whether a governing body has a right to execute prisoners, legal systems and cultures have always struggled to define the proper circumstances that constitute a capital offense. Under the ancient system of laws in the Hawaiian islands, for instance, literally hundreds of...
Over 60 percent of prisoners in the US have black or brown skin. Economic status factors heavily into the equation between race and incarceration, as drug arrests are more frequently made in segregated, poorer neighborhoods, as opposed to on college campuses, where illegal drugs abound, but ...
The NYPD conducted stop-and-frisks on more than 5 million people during the Bloomberg era. 86 percent of those detained by police were African American or Latinx. Of those searched for weapons and contraband, at least4.4 million were innocent. In 2011, the peak of the stop-and-frisk era ...
If, statistically speaking, 60 percent of drug dealers lapse into their former behavior within 3 years of being released from prison, then I think that minimum sentence imposed should be no less than five or ten years. Maybe after that much time in prison, they will have mulled over what...
The CBMW met last Friday, the same day President Trump was pardoning a racist sheriff in Arizona who tortured prisoners and a hurricane was starting to flood the 4th largest city in America. This focus on who is in and who is out of the Christian community instead of living the good ...
Prevention of re-offending. Closure and vindication. Incentive to help police. A Japanese argument. What qualifies for the death penalty? Crimes punishable by death includemurder, terrorism-related offences, rape, robbery, kidnapping, burglary, drug offencessuch as trafficking, economic crimes, adultery...
Since between ten and twenty-five percent of pregnant women admit to using cocaine, this already-bleak estimate may be grossly understated (about 4 million babies are born in the United States annually). And considering the peanut-butter-and-jelly-like affinity that crack and sex have, these ...