Every year approximately 683,000 adult woman are raped, according to The National Woman Studies, 1990. Every hour 78 women are raped, and every minute 1.3 rapes occur on adult woman. Not only are women victims of alleged rape, men and children also experience rape. There is rape harassment everywhere these days. There is sexual harassment in the schools, in prison, and also in the homes between marital and child abuse rape acts. ...

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In Wilber Rideau's "Why Prisons Don't Work" he argues that prisons have little to no effect on crime because "it is a response after the fact, a mop-up operation.... Although I agree with Rideau in that rehab can work for some criminals, ones who have committed mid-level, non-severe crimes crimes, I cannot accept his overall conclusion that prisoners who have done very ruthless, serious things such as murders and numerous raping should have a chance to be let free into society. ... Unfortunately, the prison system does not offer this option to them. ... This is why ...

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The issue of rape in prison, pointed out in second to the last paragraph to justify the author's opinion about the problem with the correctional system was something that has been tackled long time ago. Programs like PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act) established in 2003 to deal with sexual assault of prisoners and to identify would-be predators as successfully reduced the number of rape cases drastically. Also, a safe prison program introduced by most correctional facilities in the nation created a safe environment in the prison and made them safer than the free world. ... The issue of p...

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As a result, countries can become more civil since there will be no fear, or at least less fear of being murdered or raped. ... A typical example is that of Roger Keith Coleman who was accused for the murder and rape of his wife's sister. ... Some people get mad just in the thought of a murderer killing his/her victim right after a robbery or rape. ... This punishment also makes the criminal get the feeling of being useful as he/she has to offer his/her services wherever they are needed, like in hospitals or even in prison. ... For those who stand strongly for capital punishment, l...

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The human rights violations committed by the United States Army against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, is an example of how states willingness to abide by the humanitarian law is contingent upon other states reciprocating. ... Historically, rape has been an effective tool of war in many sub-Saharan conflicts. Soldiers participating in these wars were sometimes encouraged to rape civilians, in order to evince their victory and dominance. Additionally, citizens are more likely to comply with the soldiers' demands when they are under the intimidation and threat of being raped. ...

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Although an inmate may behave in prison and promise to abide by parole regulations, we must keep in mind that they are convicted offenders. If they were capable to murder, steal, rape, etc, why do we think that they are incapable of lying to get out of prison? ...

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The life-sentence is also a myth because of overcrowding in the prisons. ... Some escape and murder again, while others have murdered someone in prison. There are countless stories in prisons where a violent inmate kills another for his dinner. ... In contrast, the cost of housing a prisoner in a Texas maximum security prison single cell for 40 years is estimated at $750,000. ...

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The movie "The Shawshank Redemption" has excellent examples of the issues of corruption and brutality of the prison system. ... While in prison Dufresne quickly befriends Ellis Boyd Redding "Red" (refer to Appendix B), is regularly ridiculed by the general prison population, is often assaulted by a gang of in-mates (Sisters) who rape and beat him, and also is hired by the warden of Shawshank prison as his personal accountant, and in exchange for his help with tax evasion, embezzlement, kickbacks and other legal activities, he receives a library job and privileges. ... I had to come to prison t...

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In contrast, the cost of housing a prisoner in a Texas maximum security prison single cell for 40 years is estimated at $750,000. ... In Texas in 1991, blacks made up 12 percent of the population, but 48 percent of the prison population and 55.5 percent of those on death row are black. Before the 1970s, when the death penalty for rape was still used in many states, no white men were guilty of raping nonwhite women, whereas most black offenders found guilty of raping a white woman were executed. ...

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Examine the psychological stance of a raped victim and a witness of rape. Rape is a bodily violation that abuses the victim's body and mind. Because rape makes the victim invisible, it does this literally, the perpetrator " covers " her, and figuratively, the rape destroys her self-image, her subjectivity, which is temporarily numbing, but eventually changes and destroys. ... Rape takes place inside. ... Sometimes rape becomes a silent violence. ...

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Beginning with the decline of the mercenary profession, the use of private military contractors began to rise. Starting not long after the Cold War, PMC has now spread so far that it is currently used in every continent, except for Antarctica. PMC have become so popular for many reasons. For example...

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Due to the war on drugs, State and Federal prisons can no longer afford to house violent criminals for appropriate amounts of time. ... Lamar Grey was arrested, tried, convicted, fined $25,000 and sentenced to life in prison without parole. While, Larry Singleton raped a teenage girl, mutilated her, chopped off her arms, and left her in the desert to die. He was arrested, tried, convicted, and received the maximum penalty of 14 years in prison - of which he only served 8( Nadelmann, "Thinking seriously about alternatives to the drug prohibition" 124) Economically, the production of drugs...

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Overview of Proposition 21 Tehachapi, California currently houses 98 violent children in its prison. ... Their crimes include murder, rape, robbery and various other serious offenses. ... These offenses include, but are not limited to the following: murder, arson, robbery, rape with force, sodomy by force, kidnapping, car jacking, drive by shootings, attempted murder, manufacturing of narcotics, and several other serious offenses. ... These felonies include, but are not limited to the following: murder, rape, drive-bys, sodomy, carjacking, and several other serious felonies (Implementation G...

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These categories are based on birth defects, rape, and economics (financial condition of a family). ... On the issue of rape pro-life activists have different views because while many believe that having the child can help the mother get through the horrible experience by providing love to each other; others believe that since the a woman was impregnated without her consent the child can be aborted. Pro-choice activists justify abortion due to rape by the belief that if the child was born it would be an image of the pain the mother has suffered. ... Between the 1840's and 1850's ma...

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Women and girls [suffer] sexual abuse, rape, early forced marriages and pregnancies (Kalifani, Liebling and Mwaka). ... Many former child soldiers are detained in prisons far from their families, which strains familial relationships and limits contact (America.gov Press Release). ... Unaccompanied children are the likeliest to lack the most basic means of survival and to have their rights violated, the likeliest to be killed, tortured, raped, robbed and recruited as child soldiers (Unaccompanied Children). ...

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In the book Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean writes about her experiences as a spiritual councilor to death row inmate Elmo Patrick Sonnier in Angola Prison in Louisiana. Patrick Sonnier was tired, convicted and sentenced to death in the electric chair for his involvement in the rape and murder of two of teenagers. ...

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That the chapter in which this occurs is titled 'Rape' is highly significant and Keenan stresses his sense of violation by repeatedly describing the beatings in sexual terms. ... This is the period prior to MacCarthy's arrival when Keenan suffered near madness, when he threw himself against the walls of his prison in order to establish that he still existed, where he discovered the horrors of impotency and suffered terrible hallucinations. ...

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She was arrested at an S.L.A. safe house in San Francisco a year later, convicted of her role in the bank robbery and sentenced to seven years in prison. ... Although Hearst denied the relationship was consensual, testifying to rape, the jury believed she was lying through and through. ...

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Amnesty International has claimed that it is impossible to prove that death penalty is a greater deterrent than being given a life sentence in prison. ... For example, a Taiwanese soldier Jiang Guo qing was executed by a military tribunal on August 13, 1997 for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl. ...

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People there believed there was no need for prisons or courts because they lived in a trance of continual gratitude. ... " To what excess does religious zeal carry the ladies. " Religion definitely didn't protect women; not only commoners but also religious individuals committed multiple crimes, especially against women like rape and abuse, in fact as Voltaire made clear "the very religious Knights of Malta never fail to make search when they take any Turkish prisoners of either sex. " Even the elderly who less targeted as well as wise and trustworthy are watching their backs at all times...

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The death penalty has also been imposed for such serious crimes as armed robbery, kidnapping, rape, and treason. ... Some suggest that persons convicted of capital murder should serve a minimum of 25 years in prison before the possibility of consideration for parole, but in certain cases imprisonment for life with no possibility of parole. Some have even suggested that a portion of the prisoners' earnings, from in-prison jobs, should go to pay for their incarceration, and a portion should go into a fund for the victims of violent crime and their survivors. ...

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The life-sentence is also a myth because overcrowding in the prisons. ... Some escape and murder again, while others have murdered someone in prison. There are countless stories in prisons where a violent inmate kills another for his piece of chicken. ... A felony murder is any homicide committed in the course of committing another felony, such as rape or robbery. ...

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It should be noted though, that some people may wish to forget things from the past for example, no one would want to remember horrific personal experiences such as rape or bullying as some things simply do not teach you any lessons and only carry negative connotations with it. ...

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The diary told a story about the abduction, rape. ... Afraid that a trial would be extremely embarrassing to family and friend, Brain pleaded guilty and received a seven year prison sentence rather than the treatment in a community facility his parents had desired. ... Correctional agencies administer the postjudicatory care given to offenders, which, depending on the seriousness of the crimes and the individual needs on the seriousness of the crimes and the individual needs of offenders, can range from casual monitoring in the community to solitary confinement in a maximum-security priso...

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Julia goes through a psychotherapy during which she reveals her past trauma of her rape at the scene of the descent of the wall. ... She is "brave and strong and broken all at once", through her interrogation and traumatic time in prison, but like many she yearns for answers. ...

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