Convict

In society today, when someone breaks the law, they are sent to prison to be punished. Prison, in one perspective, values rehabilitation for the prisoners; however, it does not actually focus on helping the prisoners. The social stigma of having the label of a prisoner is detrimental to the chance of success after they are released. Therefore, prisoner incarceration and recidivism rates in the United States are among the highest in the world. In the article "When Prisoners Are Patients," Theresa…

situation. When she is in court, trying to wrongly convict a black man of rape, her power is shown through race, class and gender. In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows just how difficult it is to be different in the south. The Ewells are cared about least in the town. No one really payed attention to them, and no one would really care if they were not there. Lee also goes into detail about how it was easy for a white woman to wrongly convict a black man, no matter who the person…

door. One of them gapes at you and smirks, “Welcome home, welcome to Alcatraz.” Alcatraz was home to many of the most rebellious convicts starting in August of 1934. Before this, Alcatraz was a military prison, but as of October 12, 1933, the United States Department of Justice…

effectiveness of the new bill, they will less likely to plan an armed robbery. Secondly, if this prison term is double, it will keep the ex-convicts from committing the same crime over and over again. Although we cannot prevent citizens from committing a planned armed robbery, but if this bill is passing, it will decrease the crime rate produced by ex-convicts who have committed armed robbery to come back and enact the same crime, which eventually will reduce the crime rate. Lastly, being…

The right to vote is a central part of any democracy, but most democratic countries have significant limits on who can and cannot vote. According to Professor Christopher Uggen, there are 5.6 million Americans of voting age who are disenfranchised by state laws that “restrict voting rights for those convicted of serious crimes.” In eleven US states even “ex-felons” who have served their sentence and parole are still prohibited from voting. In 1976, 1.2 million people living in America lost…

responds by saying she has never told a lie in her life. This is a preposterous by today 's standards but it seems that this was not an unrealistic expectation in puritan society. Soon after Elizabeth’s lie is used against John Proctor in order to convict him…

been tested for DNA when the evidence may be there. About 48,000 of 90,000 rapes in 2000 were not solved due to the lack of DNA evidence (Willing 2). This suggest that with better technology to analyze DNA these crimes could have been solved. Many convicts are not entered in the DNA database or are not able to be held in the database system. Some criminal's DNA may not be in the DNA database to match them to crimes with ("Hard time for the innocent" 3). This evidence suggests that the database…

In recent years, television shows such as CSI and NCIS have placed science in the spotlight, frequently depicting forensic science as some type of futuristic magic, unravelling crimes within an hour and without error. Of course, these shows are only fiction. One forensic scientist estimated that “40% of the science on CSI does not exist, and most of the rest is performed in ways that crime lab personnel can only dream about” (Winter & York, 2011). With more than 90 million people watching…

Seen throughout history, humans of all ages and sizes have been culprits of murder. Even children as young as the age of ten have been raised in neighborhoods that were so harrowing that homicide at that age was seen as a normality. In order to punish these young children that have sought to commit the acts of murder, new laws had to have been passed. One major law introduced was one passed by “…the Illinois Legislature...[who passed] a bill permitting 10-year-old children to be charged with…

reform movement during the 1750s being the first to free their slaves. It was the law that Christians could not be enslaved and maybe the Quakers began to realize Christians should not be enslaving others either. Quakers built penitentiaries believing that one could change if they were isolated from the temptation of the surrounding world. The first Jail was the Walnut Street Jail, which was poorly ran. Walnut Street Jail would offer separate housing for men and women, they ran low on food,…