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  2. Framing effect (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    The framing effect is a cognitive bias in which people decide between options based on whether the options are presented with positive or negative connotations. [1] Individuals have a tendency to make risk-avoidant choices when options are positively framed, while selecting more loss-avoidant options when presented with a negative frame.

  3. Prison Policy Initiative - Wikipedia

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    PPI's multiple reports on the prison and jail phone industry [5] explain why the industry must be regulated by the Federal Communications Commission.The reports explain that prison phone bills are so high because of a unique market failure: prison systems and local jails award monopoly contracts to the phone company that will charge the highest rates and share as much as 84% of the profits ...

  4. Institutional syndrome - Wikipedia

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    The term institutionalization can also be used to describe the process of committing an individual to a mental hospital or prison, or to describe institutional syndrome; thus the phrase "X is institutionalized" may mean either that X has been placed in an institution or that X is suffering the psychological effects of having been in an ...

  5. Kylie Kelce Reveals Reason She Dislikes the Term WAG ... - AOL

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    Kylie Kelce opened up about her disdain for the term WAG during an appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast, telling host Alex Cooper "I think it has a serious negative connotation attached"

  6. Connotation - Wikipedia

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    A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation. A connotation is frequently described as either positive or negative, with regard to its pleasing or displeasing emotional connection. [ 1 ]

  7. Prisoner abuse - Wikipedia

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    One of the main concerns had been the extensive population of the prison, which made social distancing impossible. [7] On 9 June 2021, an inmate of Jaw prison, Husain Barakat, died due to COVID-19 complications. [8] Even after the pandemic, Bahrain's Jaw prison remained controversial, where prisoners' rights of health continued to be violated.

  8. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    Federal prison officials were close to canceling the contract in 1992, according to media accounts at the time, but they said conditions at the facility started to improve after frequent inspections. In a federal lawsuit, one LeMarquis employee, Richard Moore, alleged that he had been severely beaten by another employee – at the direction of ...

  9. Rehabilitation (penology) - Wikipedia

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    Rehabilitation is the process of re-educating those who have committed a crime and preparing them to re-enter society. The goal is to address all of the underlying root causes of crime in order to decrease the rate of recidivism once inmates are released from prison. [1]