John Swain: Eastern Penitentiary Worksheet Part I: General Questions: Answer 3 (1 point each) What was the correctional philosophy of Eastern State Penitentiary when it opened? Eastern State’s philosophy was the Pennsylvania System- a system where prisoners were isolated in their own cells with only a bible their thoughts. This complete silence and isolation was essential to repentance, however it was a maddening system that could (and I’m sure has) driven many prisoners insane. Name two prominent Philadelphians who were involved in conceptualizing Eastern State Penitentiary and how they were influential in the penitentiary movement.…
The Dakota Access Pipeline has sparked controversy throughout America primarily in the past year due to differing beliefs about the sacred land that construction supposedly is ruining. After months of protests and spirit camps, the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, a tribe that was relatively silent while others took action to protect their water supply , is taking the DAPL case to court using two deliberately planned legal strategies. Although the pipeline is complete and oil could start flowing any day, the tribe refuses to back down. However, funding legal battles can be tough, which is why the tribe has created a funding campaign on CrowdJustice, a platform to increase awareness and raise money for legal cases. While the protest camps have been forcefully evacuated, hope is not lost.…
The Dakota Access Pipeline has received a lot of attention in the media for the past several months and once again constitute a polemic topic in our nation. It is hard for the U.S. government to understand the value and to even know which places are sacred for Native Americans. However, I believe by now U.S government should better understand their religion and beliefs. I mean they acknowledge that it’s a consistent problem they face, As legal scholar Stephen Pevar tells us, in the article named“Native American Relgiion and Dakota Access Pipeline Crisis: “There is no federal statute that expressly protects Indian sacred sites…. in fact, the federal government knowingly desecrates sites.”…
Keystone XL: A Pipeline Fueling Debate The Keystone Pipeline XL, a large pipeline that has been proposed to transport oil from the Canada to the United States, has led to controversy recently. Why is there so much debate, you may ask, when it has, “the support of an increasing number of Democrats, as well as the vast majority of Republicans in Congress” (Steinhauer, 2012)? There are many disputes between political parties and groups in the U.S., but what is special about the Keystone Pipeline is that the support is not one sided.…
Did you know that 40% of students expelled from public schools are from the African American decent? Black students are three times more likely to be expelled than their fellow white classmates. Of that 40% half of them are more or less likely to never graduate or even receive their high school diploma and are sent on the road to join the already 68% of inmates in prison that also did not receive their diploma or GED. This is what society now calls the “school-to-prison pipeline”, it refers to the policies and practices that pushes children out of the classroom and into the juvenile justice system, and later the criminal justice system. One main reason this is so common is because of the “zero-tolerance” policy schools practice.…
Prisons all over the country are starting to feel the pressure now more than ever. Why? Primarily, because prisons are becoming overcrowded with inmates. Many of whom are people of color. This is happening primarily because of the profit many corporations gain from high incarceration rates.…
Today, 2.3 million people are incarcerated, and ten percent of all prisons are considered privately owned. This investment has not only led to both companies considering themselves real estate companies for investments, but also demands 90% occupancy within a 20-year period, or it will be detrimental to the United States. Though the school-to-prison pipeline is a more efficient way to reach the required 90% occupancy in private prison companies, African Americans have been the primary target. Similarly, African American males are overly represented in the excessive suspension and expulsion rates and the juvenile systems in comparison to women or those of European…
The school-to-prison pipeline is an outdated and prejudiced model that does…
A young man growing up in the heart of North Philadelphia, M.K. Asante uses empty pages as his motivation for leaving home and not looking back to his young days. In his juvenile years, he faced the mean streets of Philadelphia. He suffered from losing his mother to mental illness, his brother to the juvenile justice system, and he struggled internally to find himself. In his favorable memoir “Buck”, Asante looks at the realities of growing up black in the inner city, showing the school-to-prison pipeline caused by family structure, unequal education, and unemployment in the urban American areas.…
What is the school-to-prison-pipeline? “It is a devastating process through which many of our children particularly males and students of color receive an inadequate education and are then pushed out of public schools and into the criminal punishment system” (Scully, 2015). The pipeline is having a direct connection to school discipline. In addition, because the educational system adopted a zero tolerance policy it has setup students to enter the prison pipeline.…
I must admit I was intimidated by the readings for this week. However, once I started, I realized the readings complement the information in Literate Lives from my Literacy Foundations course, which makes it simpler to understand. Let’s look at some of the paraphrased facts from that course that correlates with this week (Flint, 2008) . Then, I will build upon that information to dive deeper into the issue of disproportionality. The background, culture, and experiences teachers have differ from their students.…
Module 9 Reading Response Introduction and Questions due November 14, Midnight (4 points) From the Lecture: 1. What is the Prison Industrial Complex and how does it generate profit? Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) is private industry that run prisons by using a business model. PIC’s main goal is to generate as much profit as possible.…
Zero Tolerance policy is a tool in the school-to-prison pipeline and is very dangerous to the developmental process of minority youths and still fails to make schools a safer place , which is the reason it was put in place. There is no point in implementing zero tolerance policy as it is not helpful to the education system and solely profits the school-to-prison pipeline.…
In class we have read how Hispanic and Black students have higher suspension rate than their white peers. We also learned about the school-to-prison pipeline and how students that get more suspension have higher rate of ending in prison. This documentary has proven that minorities get sent to prison more often than whites do; minority students also get more suspension than white students. Thus, both the documentary and our readings prove that America’s justice systems are all biased to people of…
Many youthful offenders are kept in prison and charged as adults for crimes they might have done under the influence of drugs or just mainly peer pressure. Teenagers are charged with crimes that have been just are the victims of the system and some are victims of their own lives. Teenagers should not be charged as adults because their actions come from their lack of intellectual capacity, the danger that faces them in prison and the prison system can also give rehabilitation for them to turn their life around. Some teenagers do not understand the consequences to their actions so therefore it is not reasonable for them to be trial as adults. They are unaware about what they do can affect their future and how they are treated after they get arrested.…