TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 5 P41

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 5 P41 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 388 INCEST administration of the criminal justice system. In other cases courts have not upheld that right. In Georgia for example a prisoner s right to privacy includes the right to starve to death Zant v. Prevatte 248 Ga. 832 286 715 1982 . The United States imprisons more people per capita than any other country. By 2009 million people were behind bars. The record prison population figures were driven by tough policies that mandate long terms for drug offenders and other criminals. Many critics of the increase in incarceration argue that confinement serves only to dehabilitate convicts and breed more crime. According to these critics incarceration too often turns individuals capable of rehabilitation into angry vindictive persons. By the time many inmates are released from incarceration they have been deprived of a means of self-support. Stripped of self-respect and resources many ex-convicts find it nearly impossible to lead anything other than a life of crime and despair. Other critics of wholesale incarceration point out that jail and prison inmates are disproportionately African American. In 2009 one in nine African American men between the ages of 20 and 34 were incarcerated compared to one in 30 other men of the same age. Still other critics emphasize the unfairness reflected in the disparity between the tremendous number of drug offenders in jail and prison compared with the small number of white-collar criminals incarcerated. For example in 1991 the federal courts sentenced more than 14 000 defendants to prison terms for drug offenses compared with fewer than 5 500 persons for FRAUD embezzlement and RACKETEERING crimes. Following the September 11th attacks in 2001 the federal government mobilized to fight a war on terrorism. President george w. bush authorized the indefinite detention of enemy combatants in a 2002 military order. one person captured by . forces in Afghanistan was Yaser Esam Hamdi who claimed he was a . citizen. Hamdi .

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