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Aside from protecting racially-motivated policing, the Supreme Court has also made it so that claims of racial bias cannot be made in the sentencing process. An example of this can be found in McClesky v. Kemp, where the Supreme Court illustrated that they would tolerate discrimination in the criminal justice system so long as no one explicitly claimed their racial biases (Alexander, 109). In 1987, an African American man named Warren McCleskey was facing the death penalty after being convicted…

Administration states “Schedule I drugs are the most dangerous of all the drug schedules with potentially severe and psychological and physical dependence”.2 Schedule I drugs include heroin, marijuana, LSD, and ecstasy among others.2 Schedule II drugs include cocaine, methamphetamine, and methadone among others.2 These schedules continue on until Schedule V which includes cough medicines and other less harmful…

the crack market accounted for roughly 15 percent of the crime drop in the 1990s. Studies in parts of Eastern Europe and in Scandinavia from the 1930s through the 1960s show that an abortion ban would lead to the higher chances of the children becoming criminals in the future. The annual chance of dying due to capital punishment or gang related and the crash of the crack market that lead to roughly 15 percent of crime drop are the most convincing because it shows how much of an impact crack…

Prison reform, the attempt of improving the conditions inside of prisons also to establish a more beneficial penal system or implement auxiliary to imprisonment; assists the prisoners to prepare better for their second life after their second life after their time serving in prison. At the NAACP’s 106th national convention, on July 15, 2015; Mr. President Obama listed a bunch of reasons that the United States should reform the criminal justice system. And some reasons that the government will…

People in our society today face numerous challenges throughout their day. Some might crack under pressure and others will thrive off of these predicaments. Most of these challenges are minor, nevertheless some people face major challenges every day, and soon one crisis will defeat them. This situation occurs in The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, two people face many difficulties and they either will form a poor decision and their future will be ruined or they will become a better person for…

thing to spot, the colors they are wearing, the tattoos they may have and the community they reside in allow gang members to be easily recognizable. Even though gang activity has been decreasing compared to the 1990s American crack epidemic when there was an influx of crack cocaine use in major cities across America, which resulted in an increase in crime, violence and a backlash on tough on crime policies. Violence is still prevalent among inner city neighborhoods due to street gangs fighting…

1.) Society treats adolescents much different than in past times. Children who committed crimes in the past were treated as small adult offenders, but now they are seen as children who are preparing for adulthood. The youth could no longer be treated the same as they had been because of the changes and the as times move forward. In the past children were allowed to work in the labor force at very young ages because there wasn't any laws in place prohibiting such acts. As times changed, new laws…

Oher was born into a family of 16 children, with parents who provided little to no support. Michael’s mom Denise Oher was addicted to crack cocaine, and a major alcoholic. His father Michael Jerome Williams was in and out of prison in Michael’s childhood. Then later died when Michael was in high school. Early in Michael’s life he was forcefully taken from his mom by the state, and put up for…

either slowly disappeared, or just been wiped out by other gangs or the police. What most of the first more major gangs did were small things compared to what gangs today do now. For example back in the 1980’s gangs were small and mostly trafficking cocaine throughout the state. As the years passed by it got more advanced and more dangerous people that were more risky stated taking over these gangs and turning them into something worse than what they began. Gangs now are more on shooting and…

The major focus is based on the Landlord's application to terminate a tenancy and evict the Tenant due to the reason that the Tenant or another occupant of the rental unit has: 1) committed an illegal act or has carried out, or permitted someone to carry out an illegal trade, business or occupation in the rental unit or the residential complex involving the production of an illegal drug, the trafficking in an illegal drug or the possession of an illegal drug for the purposes of trafficking; and…