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Assignment 3: Corrections Case Study

Due Week 10 and worth 200 points

The history of correctional institutions is well-documented. Correctional institutions (jails and prisons) house individuals who are awaiting trial, serving both short and long term sentences. Correctional officers are responsible for the monitoring, treatment and supervision of individuals who have been found guilty by a court of law. 

For this assignment, we will take you inside a look at the “2016 Most Violent Prison”. Please review this video now if you haven’t already done so, before beginning Assignment 3.

After reviewing the video, download the Assignment 3 template. Answer the following questions within the template, then upload the completed template to the assignment submission link in Week 10:

  1. Describe the main methods Sergeant Baldwin and his staff use to maintain order and safety in the prison. Take a position on the effectiveness, risks, pros and cons, and ethics of these methods.
  2. Choose one (1) of the inmates profiled in this video – Terry Dibble, Simkayta Winfield, Jerico Jones, or Gregory Crowder – and discuss their situation. Explain how they ended up at Statefield, the main issues they described facing, and the methods they use to cope with their time in prison.
  3. Discuss the effect you feel the presence of the active armed guards has on the violence level and overall safety within this prison.
  4. Describe the issue of isolation in Statesville presented in this video and the effects connections and contact with outside visitors can have on the prisoners’ mental status.
  5. Identify at least two (2) issues that gay inmates here uniquely face. Identify at least one (1) method of protecting gay inmates against each of these identified issues.
  6. Take a position on how you believe conditions at Statefield could be improved. Include at least two (2) specific actions that could be taken to improve conditions (i.e. security and safety, abuse and use of force, isolation, poor food quality, etc.). Provide a rationale for your position. 

 

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Last year, Berkeley, CA passed a tax on yoga classes of $4 per yoga class.  Suppose that the pre-tax demand for yoga classes is QD = 2000 – 100P, and that the pre-tax supply of yoga classes is QS = 300P –200.

(a)  Calculate the initial equilibrium price and quantity.

(b)  Calculate the elasticity of demand (ED) and elasticity of supply (ES) using calculus at the initial equilibrium price and quantity from Part (a). 

(c)  Use your answer from Part (b) to calculate the tax borne by consumers, as a percentage of the overalltax.

(d)  Use your answer from Part (b) to calculate the tax borne by firms, as a percentage of the overall tax.

(e)  Determine the price that buyers will pay for yoga classes after the tax (PB).  Determine the price thatfirms will receive for yoga classes after the tax (PS).

(f)  Calculate the deadweight loss (DWL) associated with this tax. 

 

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The manager at a local Best Buy store kept track of daily sales of the iPhone 7 when it was first introduced. He noticed that sales we very high at first, but showed a steady decrease. For example, on day 5 after the phones first went on sale, the store sold 238 iPhone 7’s, but on day 10 after the phones first went on sale, the store sold only 153 iPhone 6’s. Assume that the relationship between number of days since the phone become available and number sold is linear and, let x=the number of days since the phone was released and y=number of phones sold at this Best Buy store.xxxxxx

-Write two order pairs to represent the sales on the days described.

-Fine the slope of the line through those ordered pairs.

-Write equation in point-slope form of the line.

-Convert the equation to slope-intercept form.

-Explain what the slope and the y-intercept mean in the context of this problem.

 

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The underworld is believed to be the dwelling place of the earth-goddess. It is this earthly goddess that will add feministic principles and instincts to this masculine ego of the mythical hero. The hero is equally portrayed has having redemptive powers. These are the powers that he or she receives from the gods. The hero has the power to uplift the entire human race from the dismal conditions that it lives in. this is clearly a potential that can only be performed by the gods.

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The civilization of the ancient Greek has been considered as the most brilliant in the history of the world. Most of the credit has been given to the Greece mythical heroes. The heroes often travelled afar and set up cities in the places that they went to. It is for example indicated that the western civilization was as a result of the spread of the Greek culture by the heroes. It is the divine power that the Greek heroes had that made them to easily spread the Greek culture as well as be a caviling force without resistance from people.

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