Discuss the Prison Rape Elimination Act Controversy.
What will be an ideal response?
The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) of 2003 required that the Department of Justice and its subdivisions—the National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics—study and report on the amount of sexual violence in adult and juvenile prisons and jails. In reaction to this reporting and court cases which indicated that LGBTI inmates were particularly vulnerable to sexual abuse by inmates and staff, and after studying the matter the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, which was created by the PREA legislation, released its national standards in June 2009. These standards are extensive and require that states train staff differently, monitor inmates differently, report offenses, treat victims and offenders, audit themselves and collect and keep relevant data related to sexual violence. The U.S. Attorney General was asked to release these standards and to require compliance with them by the Bureau of Prison and by each Governor certifying compliance with these standards or certifying that they were working toward compliance. If governors did not do this they risked losing 5% of any future DOJ grants (Department of Justice, 2014). As the date for certification of compliance neared in spring 2014 at least seven states’ governors (i.e., Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, and the Northern Marianas Islands territory) ignored the certification deadline of May 15 or indicated that they would not certify compliance with these standards, some claiming that they were too cumbersome and expensive to comply with.
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In Tennessee v. Garner the Supreme Court adopted a rule concerning police use of _______force
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Column 1 Column 2 1. Objective reasonableness a. Protection of significant life,liberty, or property interests, sometimes described as "proceduralfairness." 2. Subjective reasonableness b. When evaluating the actionsof law enforcement officials, conduct that would be consideredreasonable by the police officer engaged in the conduct. 3. Substantive due process c. When evaluating the actionsof law enforcement officials, conduct that would be consideredacceptable by a "reasonable person." A judge usually decideswhat a "reasonable person" would consider acceptable. 4. Procedural due process d. Protection from arbitrary andunreasonable action on the part of state officials.
What is the difference between a timed exposure photograph and a painting with light photograph?
What will be an ideal response?
The Strauss and Gelles study was criticized because it reported acts rather than context and meaning
a. True b. False