  Cabibbo-allowed two-body hadronic weak decays of bottom baryons are analyzed.
Contrary to the charmed baryon sector, many channels of bottom baryon decays
proceed only through the external or internal W-emission diagrams. Moreover,
W-exchange is likely to be suppressed in the bottom baryon sector.
Consequently, the factorization approach suffices to describe most of the
Cabibbo-allowed bottom baryon decays. We use the nonrelativistic quark model to
evaluate heavy-to-heavy and heavy-to-light baryon form factors at zero recoil.
When applied to the heavy quark limit, the quark model results do satisfy all
the constraints imposed by heavy quark symmetry. The decay rates and up-down
asymmetries for bottom baryons decaying into $(1/2)^++P(V)$ and $(3/2)^++P(V)$
are calculated. It is found that the up-down asymmetry is negative except for
$\Omega_b \to (1/2)^++P(V)$ decay and for decay modes with $\psi'$ in the final
state. The prediction $B(\Lambda_b \to J/\psi\Lambda)=1.6 \times 10^{-4}$ for
$|V_{cb}|=0.038$ is consistent with the recent CDF measurement. We also present
estimates for $\Omega_c \to (3/2)^++P(V)$ decays and compare with various model
calculations.
