The author of the article goes on to say that people in the US are sentenced to do time for crimes that would not produce such a sentence in other countries. According to another article in the New York Times (2008), states spend close to ten percent of their budget on corrections (Liptak &, 2008). In 2007 alone, states spend close to $45 million tax dollars. Not only is simply housing an inmate costly, but healthcare also provides a financial burden. In 1998, the states paid a little over seven dollars a day per inmate for healthcare (Kinsella, 2004).
‘Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the UK constitution’ The UK constitution is currently un-codified and has been since the constitution was introduced after the glorious revolution in 1688 and the UK government gained Parliamentary sovereignty. As our constitution is not written down, it is therefore not entrenched and is purely based on historical conventions and traditions. This can be inferred to show that the UK has a two-tier legal system, meaning that there are two levels of law. Higher laws that consist of constitutional arrangements as well as lower laws that consist of judiciary concerns. There are not many un-codified constitutions in the world, although there are many advantages of a country adopting an un-codified constitution.
This showed the UK constitution to be very beneficial, and furthermore the Queen and the Royal Prerogative did not have to be consulted, which would have been different in a codified system and made the process much slower than in an uncodified constitution. Some may disagree with what seems to be one of the reasons why the uncodified constitution is advantageous and turn it on its head and say that the easiness of changing the constitution creates instability and unlawful action. An example of this was the use of rubber bullets and water cannons on the rioters in London. If the London riots occurred under an entrenched constitution there would have been no chance of the police being allowed to act in such a way legally, but under an
Therefore if parliamentary sovereignty was an Act of Parliament it would be possible for Parliament to repeal it and destroy the principle. However just because the principle of parliamentary sovereignty is embodied in common law does not make this a more important source of the British constitution than statute law. This is because common
We estimated how many customers we need to breakeven each year. Cash flow Projection for five years Cash Flow Analysis Year 1 Beginning Balance $0 Capital $10,000 Revenue (10 Clients) 59,700 $66,700 Disposables Purchases 49,700 Administrative $7,400 (Advertising 200, Other costs 200, Airlines 1,000, Office 6000) Wages $4,000 (2,000 each for Benny and Janet) $61,100 Ending Balance $5,600 Year 2 Beginning Balance $5,600 Revenue (15 Clients) $89,550 $93,150
Penn Medical Center, a for-profit hospital, is considering the purchase of a new 64-slice CT scanner. The cost of the new scanner is $5 million and will be depreciated over 10 years on a straight line basis to $0 savage value. The tax rate is 40%. The financing options include either borrowing the full cost of the scanner or leasing a scanner. The lease option is a 5-year lease with equal before-tax lease payments of $950,000 per year.
Another example would be that the United States gives an average burglary sentence around sixteen months, but Canada gives a sentence of five months, and in England people get about seven months. This is a rather large difference, and can explain why the United States as of 2009 holds the highest incarceration rate throughout the world at 754 inmates per 100,000 people. The war on drugs in the United States has seriously impacted the criminal justice system. There have been a lot more people arrested and sentenced for non violent crimes. This has also had a big part in the current overcrowding of the United States prisons.
The interoperability was never put into place for reasons that can only be speculated on. There are assumptions that Grant Holcomb the architect of the proposed system had a conflict of interest that may have profited him. There are also allegations that Greg Meffert, Nagin's chief technology officer, stated that the technology wouldn't work. Many controversial issues of being unethical by several parties involved in this system caused a delay that unfortunately wasn’t in play for Katrina. Interoperability is dangerous to the concept of Federalism because although New Orleans was granted money to fund the system by the national government, at the state level, it was never implemented.
University of London Common Law Reasoning and Institutions Essay: The HRA 1998 has had little impact upon protecting the basic liberties Of British Subjects and could be repealed without any consequence. - Discuss. Candidate number: ND289 Student registration number: 090493108 Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible.
He was not one bit concerned about the Catholics especially in areas of work “wherever possible to the ploy good Protestant lads and lassies”. He did nothing to help with the tension between the two sides in my opinion he just made it worse. Between 1945 and 1951 there were major health reforms introduced by the British Labour Government along with education and social welfare which were proposed in the Beveredge Report in 1942. However the North could not afford to pay for these so Brookeborouge made an agreement with the London Government that Britain would subsidise them. This meant that taxation in the North would be kept at the same level as in Britain and the Northern Budget would be submitted to the British for approval.