The proliferation of the number of convicts notwithstanding, the populations fewer countries have taken the inventiveness of instituting new prisons or unconventional measures for penitentiaries. The California prison populace is one of the cases of this condition where the number of convicts is twice as much as the premeditated population. ... On the contrary, the rates of crimes on viciousness have doubled up. ... Their cases are associated with high blood pressure as compared to inmates within small halls, double-bunked and single cells. ... Some of the penitentiaries transcends to a twofol...

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The report concluded that in order to reduce prison rape, prison officials should take considerably more care in matching inmates together, and that, as a general rule, avoiding double-celling. ... The information does often become known to the prison population because the victim is having to admit the assault to the prison officials. ... One way that prison officials protect the inmate from further sexual assault is removing them from general population. ...

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According to the article "Schools v. prisons: Education's the way to cut prison population," "California spends more on prisons because it fails to provide the quality of education you need to succeed in school" (Hanson/Stipek 2). ... According to the article "Schools v. prisons: Education's the way to cut prison population," "Drop outs are 3.5 times more likely to be arrested than high school graduates. ... Statistics are showing a downfall in the high school graduation rate, and these drop outs have more than doubled the likelihood of becoming arr...

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This translates into a range of negative beliefs about the Criminal Justice System, including 25% of the population believing the Probation Services do a poor or very poor job'. ... The renowned, punitive minded Mr Michael Howard, former Home Secretary, bought about great changes to the Criminal Justice system, with his lock-em up' beliefs which saw the prison population swelling dramatically from 44,506 prisoners in1993 to a present day total of 74,000, costing hundreds of thousands of pounds to British tax payers through the building of new prisons, employing and training extra p...

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Nor does it mean that it cannot be imposed on Australians traveling overseas, as illustrated by the double execution of Barlow and Chambers who were hanged in Malaysia on 7 July 1986 for drug trafficking.( Rehav, Giroa (1989), 'Homicide and Death Penalty: A Cross-sectional Time Series Analysis', International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, Spring, 7,1, 61-71.) ... Indeed, trends in Australia from 1965 to 1985 demonstrate an increasing number of homicide cases being reported to the police, but since the figures are rising more slowly than the population, the homi...

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