Contraband

Although emancipation was never an objective of the Union, “…in the war’s early months the Lincoln administration tried hard to keep the Negro out of the conflict. It started to become a motive of war, after a series of events. May of 1861, Benjamin Butler was sent down by Lincoln to hold Fort Monroe. Contrabands began coming to Butler to try and join the Union side. After Lincolns approval, contrabands are placed to work for the Union side. Major General John C. Frémont ordered martial law throughout the state of Mississippi, confiscating Confederate property and setting their slaves free. Setting the slaves free was a strategic move to hurt the Confederates pride and source of economy. By this point in the war, the North knew that by removing…

Contraband cell phones in prisons make guards and warden's jobs much more challenging. Inmates can intimidate witnesses, arrange for crimes to be committed in the prison or continue their illegal activities from the comfort of their cell. While guards search for and confiscate illegal cell phones, it would be so much easier if prisoners didn't bother having phones smuggled in, which would happen if the cell phones did not work inside jails and prisons. Fortunately, Securus Technologies just…

that one may consider contraband. These items can be very dangerous to fellow officers as well as the inmates. Like the article states, "In prison, contraband can mean life or death." (Crohsc 2014) Cell Phone in particular is one of the few but many that can be harmful to society and the correction institution. Cell Phones are dangerous to correctional officers because it can cause chaos inside of a prison. They can be used to call members of a gang who was once incarcerated, so they can…

Smuggling contraband into prison sounds risky, yet many people including the jail guards themselves are guilty of doing it. Surprisingly, drugs are easier to obtain in prison than on the streets. Due to prices being ten times higher than street prices, the motivation to make a large amount of money in a short amount of time is very tempting. And many others do it because of their addiction to the drug. But regardless of the reason, the amount of smuggling that occurs in medium security prisons…

NBC Miami recently featured a story regarding a danger in our correctional facilities. Contraband cell phones have been a huge issue recently. Being brought into facilities by visitors, and even drones; the issue has resulted in dangerous conditions both inside and outside the facility walls. Robert Johnson is a former corrections officer, who's personally been affected by the illegal devices, is lobbying to get legislation passed to require technology to stop the problem. Partnering with…

Slavery is something that effected hundreds of thousands of people. Rather if you were a abolitionist at the time slavery was going on ( a white person who was free but gave slaves help and freedom) or a slave it made a huge impact on your life. But slaves definatly had it far worse. Slaves had to go through things such as getting separated from your family, including mothers loosing children and sisters and brothers being split apart. This usually always happens and it is very rare that you…

other with weapons snuck into the prisons’ (10% of inmates). Strip searches are basically a procedure that keeps out contraband such as drugs and weapons into the facilities. Strip searches should be allowed because it is for the prisoner’s safety as well as the guards, also to keep contraband out, and it is not a right it is mandatory. These searches should be allowed because it helps keep the guards safe especially since prisoners have committed assaults against the guards in the past. Prison…

The principal should not be allowed to conduct random locker searches because of the searches being random. The principal would be searching random lockers and not specific ones. The searches should not be random because some of the people who actually have bad things in their lockers would have a lower chance of being caught. Contrary I am pro locker searches but not random locker searches. I am pro locker searches but anti-random locker searches because students the administration is…

because the officer was in a place where he had a right to be and saw accessible property that was recognized as the candelabra. The Supreme Court has held that even if there is no warrant, obtaining evidence is always reasonable under the Fourth Amendment, if (1) the police entrance to the place to be searched is valid and (2) the PVD prong test is satisfied: if an officer is in a place where he has a right to be and sees accessible property that is recognized as contraband, an officer may…

In the Fiery Trial, Eric Foner argues that it is imperative for Abraham Lincoln to focus on slavery in the four boarder slave states that remain in the union. Foner deduces his argument from an editorial published on December 4th, 1861 in the New York Herald. The editorial provides an analysis of Mr. Lincoln’s message to Congress. It is interesting to note that this paper’s constituency is far from any boarder state conflict, yet of all the topics posed by Lincoln in his address to congress,…