For Many Years,the Nation's Courts Did Not Interfere in Prison

question 66

Essay

For many years,the nation's courts did not interfere in prison operations based on the belief that it lacked technical competence in prison administration,society's general apathy toward prisons,and the belief that prisoners' complaints involved privileges rather than rights.This is called the ___________________________.

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Definitions:

Adhesion

The property of sticking to some other substance. Compare with cohesion.

Capillary Action

The ability of water to move in small-diameter tubes as a consequence of its cohesive and adhesive properties.

Surface Tension

The attraction that the molecules at the surface of a liquid may have for one another.

Osmosis

The net movement of water (the principal solvent in biological systems) by diffusion through a selectively permeable membrane from a region of higher concentration of water (a hypotonic solution) to a region of lower concentration of water (a hypertonic solution).