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  2. Alternatives to imprisonment - Wikipedia

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    The alternatives to imprisonment are types of punishment or treatment other than time in prison that can be given to a person who is convicted of committing a crime. Some of these are also known as alternative sanctions. Alternatives can take the form of fines, restorative justice, transformative justice or no punishment at all.

  3. Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The "excessiveness" of a punishment can be measured by two different aspects, which are independent of each other. The first aspect is whether the punishment involves the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain. The second aspect is that the punishment must not be grossly out of proportion to the severity of the crime. [37] [38] In Miller v.

  4. Prison reform - Wikipedia

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    The concept of incarceration was presented circa 1750 as a more humane form of punishment than the corporal and capital punishment. They were originally designed as a way for criminals to participate in religious self-reflection and self-reform as a form of penance, hence the term penitentiary.

  5. Free writing - Wikipedia

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    Personal free writing is the practice of writing what one is thinking without considering organization or grammatical errors. In a study done by Fred McKinney, free writing was defined as letting one’s thoughts and words flow onto paper without hesitation. [21] This can be done in the format of letters or even a personal notebook.

  6. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Kentucky has approached Suboxone in such a shuffling and half-hearted way that just 62 or so opiate addicts treated in 2013 in all of the state’s taxpayer-funded facilities were able to obtain the medication that doctors say is the surest way to save their lives. Last year that number fell to 38, as overdose deaths continued to soar.

  7. On the Freedom of the Will - Wikipedia

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    The will is free, but only in itself and other than as its appearance in an observer's mind. When it appears in an observer's mind, as the experienced world, the will does not appear free. But because of this transcendental freedom, as opposed to empirical necessity, every act and deed is a person's own responsibility.

  8. Writing lines - Wikipedia

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    Romani ite domum on a reconstruction of a Roman settlement in Britain, in the Hull and East Riding Museum. Writing lines is frequently satirised in popular culture as "a symbol of futile, old-fashioned, one-size-fits-all schoolhouse discipline", as in the chalkboard gag seen at the beginning of many episodes of The Simpsons, where Bart Simpson writes lines on a chalkboard as a punishment.

  9. No good deed goes unpunished - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Aquinas contemplating deeds and punishment. The phrase "No good deed goes unpunished" is a sardonic commentary on the frequency with which acts of kindness backfire on those who offer them. In other words, those who help others are doomed to suffer as a result of their helpfulness.