Detention

In No Throwaway Boy by Abdul Lloyd-Bey, the author writes a story about his life and what he’d been through. Abdul Lloyd-Bey came from Bushwick, Brooklyn, living in a small apartment with his parents and siblings. Growing up in the neighborhood of Bushwick, Abdul was surrounded by lots of gang and gun violence, drugs, and poverty. Living in a neighborhood that dealt with violence, drugs, and poverty, Abdul had became accustomed to that environment. At a young age he was being involved in gang…

The reason children who are minors should be tried as adults are to keep society safe and better off. The average ages for juvenile delinquents to commit crimes is usually between the ages of fifteen to nineteen(From Juvenile Delinquency to Young Adult Offending), which means they have had at least fifteen years to learn what’s right and wrong. And even then they are seen as to be rehabilitated instead of simply tried and sentenced. If a minor can commit murder, he or she should be sentenced…

Do juveniles deserve to go to adult prisons? It has long been debated whether juveniles who did serious crimes should be sent in adult prisons. Some people believe that juveniles who commit adult crime must go to adult prisons. Some people believe that it is unfair for juveniles because they are young and their brains are still not fully developed. The Juvenile Justice System provides rehabilitation to the youth offenders who are under the age of 25. The Proposition 21, which was passed in 2000,…

Good morning. Society is faced with an increasingly growing problem. The problem is that children and teens are committing heinous crimes at a young age. The question is, do we sentence these children and teens to incarceration for the rest of their lives, or do we instead try to rehabilitate these teens and children and find the root causes of these problems? Do we not give them a second chance and let them rot in prison, or do we rehabilitate them and help them become important members of…

Guantanamo Bay is a detention camp located in the southern tip of Cuba operated by the U.S. military (Fetini np). The detention facility was created after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York when Americans felt threatened by the uncertainty of terrorism (Fetini np). President Bush established the detention facility to campaign the elimination of terrorism and their support networks (Fetini np). Guantanamo Bay was established to hold individuals’ captive during military…

Good morning. Society is faced with an increasingly growing problem. The problem is that children and teens are committing heinous crimes at a young age. The question is, do we sentence these children and teens to incarceration for the rest of their lives, or do we instead try to rehabilitate these teens and children and find the root causes of these problems? Do we not grant them a second chance and let them rot in prison, or do we rehabilitate them and help them become important members of…

Envision yourself as a fourteen-year-old sitting in a secluded prison for merely disregarding your C-train ticket once in your life. Before the Youth Criminal Justice Act, unreasonable consequences were thrown at you after only committing a minor offence by accident. That’s how important the Youth Criminal Justice Act is; it addresses youth crime in a fair and equitable manner. Since the introduction of the Youth Criminal Justice Act in 2003, we have seen the youth crime rate lower, youth are…

Being Grounded vs. Being in Jail “You can’t ground me! Taking away my phone is taking away my freedom! You’re basically putting in prison!” “You can’t do this to me, I’m a human being with rights!” Nowadays, many teenagers compare any punishment their parents enforce on them to being in jail. However this is not the case, yet a poorly conceived attempt to “sucker” their parents into feeling pity for them. Most parent’s punishments aren’t as severe as being forced a federal penitentiary for…

“After me and my family got evicted, I’m out of here. It’s hard to find a job, so this all I know. This is the first thing I go to.” Says Ross- a resident of Nicetown, Philadelphia, PA: which is among one of the areas hardest stricken by the effects of mass-incarceration and the lack of opportunities that accompany with it. Ross –a good-looking young man with tattoos up to his neck- recently finished time in prison and has no high school diploma, leading him to dealing drugs as the streets…

condition that they “cooperate” with interrogators, and routinely “short-shackled” (wrists and ankles bound together and to the floor) for hours and even days during interrogations (5). Other acts of inhumane treatment have been performed in the detention facility including waterboarding and force feeding hunger strikers. Mr. Al Murbati disclosed his experience as a…