Corrections

Canning or death sentences, you may as well consider them to be the same thing. “Rough Justice” written by Alejandro Reyes, gives more reasoning toward the case of Michael Fay with the author's use of evidence. After carefully analyzing the two text, the reader realizes that the article “Rough Justice” has the most relevant evidence to support it because the author includes more facts and statistics which allows the reader to better side with his view. Throughout the article, Reyes provides…

Overcrowding Prisons Prisons are overcrowded throughout the nation. Innocent prisoners are thrown in and locked up behind bars. Money is crucial. Prisoners are competing and struggling. Our two choices are to release the prisoners, or overcrowd them into jail. It’s your choice to pick which side of the argument you are on, but choose wisely. Whichever one you select will affect you, your loved ones, and our society in the near future. I’ve already chosen the best choice for me and my society,…

1. Explain in complete detail Howard Zehrs ' approach to restorative justice. Restorative justice provides an opportunity for people who committed a crime and those who were impacted by it to communicate with one another on the cause, damage, and potential repair. The central concern of restorative justice is the repair of harm caused by the crime committed. Howard Zehr pioneered restoratice justice while directing a halfway house in Indiana. Zehr worked with the residents in…

Restorative prisons can help many people beyond the perpetrator despite that fact the perpetrator is the only one being treated in these restorative prisons. According to Bazemore (1998), victims are fine with the offender being treated with restorative justice ways. This supports that the victims will not feel like the offender is getting off too easy in restorative prisons. These prisons also help the community because once the perpetrator is out of the restorative prisons they are part of the…

Abi Chipps Ms. Boyer Honors ELA 2 11 July, 2017 Proving Adnan Syed’s Innocence Imagine being sentenced to time in prison for a crime not committed. It would be unfathomable to live everyday in prison but deserve to live in the outside world. Adnan Syed, an American teenager, has to live with that reality everyday. Adnan was convicted of murdering Hae Min Lee,who is also, Adnan’s ex. Adnan still claimed to be innocent, but he remembered the day of the murder to be a “regular day.” Jay’s…

The world is a tough and scary place. This is the message we have always been told. Told by the stories from the media, from our parents, our friends, perhaps even through our own personal experiences. The media are constantly highlighting stories of rape, murder, robbery, etc. Our parents tell us "don 't talk to strangers." It seems as if anywhere, at any time, someone can and will take advantage of you if given the opportunity. Given the increase in riots, police shootings, and threats of…

There is a stigma on those that are imprisoned. Many think they are uneducated individuals. Never judge a book by its cover or in this case the situation an individual may be in. Some entered prison with a high school education, a college education, or received their GED behind bars. Many of the inside students have continued learning even though they are serving time. I will be honest; I was surprised how elegant they are with their words. It was like poetry. We have some intelligent…

Retributive Justice in Agamemnon and The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea The concept of retributivist justice is best understood as the form of justice ruling that “those who commit certain kinds of wrongful acts, paradigmatically serious crimes, morally deserve to suffer a proportionate punishment” (Walen, 2016). In Aeschylus’s Agamemnon and Yukio Mishima’s The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea, the concept of retributive justice influences the emotions and actions of the…

In Journey into the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg retells her unfortunate story of imprisonment through Article 58 in Soviet Russia under Stalin’s rule. Before her trial, she spent two years in solitary confinement in a prison in Yaroslavl. The United States has a history with isolation and it is still used as a punishment today through the new name Super Max prisons. In the 19th century, many critics and reformists like Charles Dickens and William Crawford arose and solitary became a much…

Topic 1 My first impression of the probationer was that he was an angry individual, who I would have difficulty getting to follow the rules of probation. I felt like the original probationer probably did need to be sentenced to incarceration instead of probation, due to his prior criminal history and family background. My impression changed greatly when meeting with the alternate probationer. The alternate probationer seemed like he was genuinely interested in following the rules and accepting…