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An intricate, complicated plot is called an imbroglio, but even the simplest statements of plot may include multiple inferences, as in traditional ballads. According to Aristotle Mythos was a term used for actors and scenes that are the most important bits of any scene or play. TVB Anniversary Awards 2008 (Traditional Chinese: 2008年萬千星輝頒獎典禮) is an award ceremony that celebrates the best in TVB programming of 2008. The award ceremony took place on November 15, 2008. "Best Actor in a Leading Role" Award Wong Cho Lam 王祖藍 "Most Vastly Improved Actor" Award.
Members of the Hollywood Ten and their families in 1950, protesting the impending incarceration of the ten (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A prison (from Old French prisoun) is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime. Other terms used are penitentiary, correctional facility, remand centre, detention centre, and jail or gaol. In some legal systems some of these terms have distinct meanings.
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The series was inspired by the 1970s British television drama Within These Walls, which had achieved moderate success in Australia (Prisoner producers even approached Googie Withers of Within These Walls to play the role of Prisoner's governor, an offer that she declined). Because of an injunction brought by UK-based ATV, which considered the title too similar to their own series.
Prisoner: Cell Block H - Behind The Scenes was published in 1990. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Prisoner, it was originally not possible for overseas broadcasters to screen the show under the name Prisoner, which necessitated a name change. It was known as Prisoner: Cell Block H in the UK and the United States (though this extended title was not shown onscreen), and as Caged Women in Canada. In March 2012 it was announced that the series would be "reimagined" in a new version entitled Wentworth. Prisoner was created by Reg Watson, who had previously produced the British soap opera Crossroads from 1964 to 1973
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English: Timeline of total number of inmates in U.S. prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities. From 1920 to 2006. Data sources: http://www.nationalinstituteofcorrections.gov/Library/015837 http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/00-05_REP_PunishingDecade_AC.pdf http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=908 http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=1006 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Experimentation on prisoners Throughout history prisoners have been frequent participants in scientific, medical and social human subject research. The history of research involving prisoners has been exploitative and cruel, and many of the modern protections for human subjects evolved in response to the abuses in prisoner research. Research involving prisoners is conducted today, but prisoners are now one of the most highly protected groups of human subjects. According to the Common Rule (45 CFR 46), prisoners may only be included in human subjects research when the research involves no more than a minimal risk of harm. Prisoners can consent, although their consent cannot be said to be completely voluntary, due to their compromised and dependant status. Their status as imprisoned human subjects becomes even more ethically problematic when investigators offer incentives such as parole, phone calls, or objects that are normally unavailable to prisoners. Herophilos of Chalcedon was reputed by Celcus, amongst others, to have vivisected prisoners received from the Ptolemaic kings. In Japan, Unit 731, located near Harbin (Manchukuo), experimented with prisoner vivisection, dismemberment and induced epidemics.
The Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women in Toronto in 1895 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Incarceration is the detention of a person in prison, typically as punishment for a crime (custodial sentence). People are most commonly incarcerated upon suspicion or conviction of committing a crime, and different jurisdictions have differing laws governing the function of incarceration within a larger system of justice. Incarceration serves four essential purposes with regard to criminals: Incarceration rates, when measured by the United Nations, are considered distinct and separate from the imprisonment of political prisoners and others not charged with a specific crime. Historically, the frequency of imprisonment, its duration, and severity have varied considerably. There has also been much debate about the motives for incarceration, its effectiveness and fairness, as well as debate regarding the related questions about the nature and etiology of criminal behavior. Wilkenson (2004) notes that overall heterogeneity of a society may provide a meta-explanation for the variance in incarceration rates: There may be a multi-directional causality where close-knit societies are least likely to commit some forms of offenses against one another. Penology and justice studies emphasize.
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