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  2. Inmate Code - Wikipedia

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    The Inmate Code (sometimes referred to as "Convict Code") refers to the rules and values that have developed among prisoners inside prisons' social systems. [1] The inmate code helps define an inmate's image as a model prisoner. The code helps to emphasize unity of prisoners against correctional workers.

  3. Insider trading - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, at least one court has indicated that the insider who releases the non-public information must have done so for an improper purpose. In the case of a person who receives the insider information (called the "tippee"), the tippee must also have been aware that the insider released the information for an improper purpose. [13]

  4. Prison social hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    Prison social hierarchy refers to the social status of prisoners within a correctional facility, and how that status is used to exert power over other inmates.A prisoner's place in the hierarchy is determined by a wide array of factors including previous crimes, access to contraband, affiliation with prison gangs, and physical or sexual domination of other prisoners.

  5. Social groups in male and female prisons in the United States

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    Social groups in male and female prisons in the United States differ in the social structures and cultural norms observed in men's and women's prison populations. While there are many underlying similarities between the two sets of populations, sociologists have historically noted different formal and informal social structures within inmate populations.

  6. Incarceration in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In a maximum security prison or area (called high security in the federal system), all prisoners have individual cells [157] with sliding doors controlled from a secure remote control station. Prisoners are allowed out of their cells one out of twenty four hours (one hour and 30 minutes for prisoners in California).

  7. Throw Them All Out: An Interview with Peter Schweizer - AOL

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    Talking with Peter Schweizer, author of the new best-seller Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest ...

  8. Prison - Wikipedia

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    A 19th-century jail room at a Pennsylvania museum. A prison, [a] also known as a jail, [b] gaol, [c] penitentiary, detention center, [d] correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, and slammer, is a facility where people are imprisoned under the authority of the state, generally as rehabilitation andpunishment for various crimes.Prison are most commonly used within a ...

  9. Inside Menudo Member’s Sex Abuse Allegations the ... - AOL

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    Despite their claims, in 1996, three years after their first trial ended in a deadlock, the brothers were convicted of the first-degree murders of their parents and sentenced to life in prison ...