... this clause, as well as the two mentioned before, should be stricken from the PLRA by Congress in order to help deal with the prison crime situation. Prison Rape Reform Act The final step that I am proposing for the alleviation of at least some of the crime that takes place within prisons in ... recommendation to the Attorney General for consideration. With that in mind, the PRRA would provide one more safeguard to help stop the problem of prison rape. Under the PRRA, the Attorney General as well as the Justice Department would be given the power to enforce these new national standards a...

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... mentioned above have presented, but I also believe that the brain of a child that could function "well" enough to commit such violent crimes as rape, murder, and many other cases that we hear about single day, could also see the end of it. Even if they don't understand the ... designed in 1940's, when "serious" offenses included truancy, curfew violations and fistfights", while nowadays, the law has to deal with gang-related crimes, murders, rape cases, and many other violent offenses (Wilson 1). There is also a terrifying record Wilson presented which shows that "During 1990's murder was...

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... doing a very serious job and should be reconized not but down for their actions against criminals. Definition of bail- in law, procurement of release from prison of a person awaiting trial or an appeal, by the deposit of security to insure his submission at the required time to legal authority. The monetary ... the victim. The victim would be very satisyfied if the criminal got a higher charge. Because say if a criminal got a certain number of years for rape but not for life, the victim would allways have that fear, disturbance, and memory in his/her head that will never go away, the def...

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... arrested every 45 seconds in America. Taken together, the total number of marijuana arrests for 2000 far exceeded the combined number of arrests for violent crimes, including murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault. Like most citizens, people who smoke marijuana also pay taxes, love and support their families, and work hard to make a better life for their children. Suddenly ... as criminal, including that which involves adults smoking in the privacy of their own homes, we are wasting police and prosecutorial resources, clogging courts, filling costly and scar...

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... - "an eye for an eye." (Opas, P.1996) There's a big problem with this logic. Proponents of the death penalty claim ownership of the moral high ground in their arguments regarding murder, rape and other crimes. They claim the violence and immorality of the crime gives them a right to demand that they be able to do the same thing- to take the life ... . The first hanging was in February 1788, the last person to be executed in Australia was Ronald Ryan. Ryan was 'hanged by the neck until he was dead' at Pentridge Prison, Victoria in 1967. (Michael Victory, END OF THE LINE 1994) Now the sente...

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... of the United States of America was something to be proud of in Thoreau's day, only decades earlier stating something similar could have been grounds for being thrown in a British prison, "All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. But ... 's criminal justice system, "The hook, he said. No fines, no probation, no thirty days in jail. It's the hook. The hook for stealing, for murder, for arson, for treason, for rape, for being a peeping Tom. Break a lawan...

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