Theodore Lorraine Sendak, a former Indiana Attorney General, once stated, "Our system of criminal law is to minimize human suffering by works or order primarily to forestall violence or aggression. ... In contrary, the opposers are strongly against the use of the death penalty and state how there are other methods that can be used to make the society a safer place to live in that does not explicit this type of extreme violence. ... Officials say the increase is puzzling since overall violence, as well as sexual assaults and the number of weapons found in prisons statewide, have all declined in...

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(Zinn, A People's History, 514) "The prisons in the United States had long been an extreme reflection of the American system itself: the stark life differences between rich and poor . . . and the use of victims against one another." ... On the other side of the spectrum however, are those who are oppressed, but rather than resort to violence, they attempt to placate those who wield power. ...

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Another downside is that it encourages violence. It reinforces the idea that violence can solve problems. ... Many organizations like the Center for Media Education (CME) have protested and lobbied to reduce the level of sex and violence on television for the sake of their children. ...

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Drug crimes and violence went hand in hand and so anything related to drugs had far more dire consequences in the eyes of the politicians and in turn the public interest as well. ... How he does this is via his testimony on life "Inside" Santos' book takes a somewhat ethnographic-like approach because a lot (if not all) of his work is comprised of very vivid details about the social life and the relationships of American prison systems during a time where Mass incarceration was underway (think crack epidemic, increase in violence, etc.). ... On a daily, the threat of violence ...

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