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Question 1: How to reduce Employment retention of the Arkansas Department of Correction?

Prohibition, also known as the Volstead Act, was passed by the 66th United States Congress in spite of Presidents Woodrow Wilson veto and went into full effect in January of 1920. A large religious movement, along with the women's equality movement were all calling for temperance across the Nation. (Hall, 2010) said, "prohibition is believed widely to have been a misguided and failed social experiment that made alcohol problems worse."

Alcohol-related crimes in the U.S. were relatively low prior to the passage of the Volstead Act, however, after the passage of the bill, crime rates, arrests, and prison sentences skyrocketed. Organized crime went into full swing and Illegal bootlegging of alcohol became commonplace.

The crime wave brought with it some of the most notorious gangsters in American history, such as Al Capone, and George Kelley Barnes.

The only thing that Prohibition accomplished was creating a massive black market, a huge crime wave, and increasing the American prison population. In addition to the prison population, it also caused a lot of alcohol related illnesses, and due to more cases of overconsumption, it led to a huge increase in orphaned children. It just goes to prove that if you take something away from people, or if you tell them they cannot have it, they will always find a way. This very same argument is used today in the fight to legalize marijuana across the nation.