Imprisonment and detention

Since August, 6, 1912, there have been two hundred and eighty two executions, done by the state of South Carolina (South Carolina Department of Corrections, 2016.) Death row is not only morally wrong, but it is telling the murders, and other people up for death row, that killing someone for doing something wrong is right. Death row should be abolished, not only does it give inmates the impression that an eye for an eye is okay, but it puts innocence people lives at risk, it costs taxpayers…

The film Shawshank Redemption is an award-winning film by Frank Darabont in which an innocent man, Andy Dufresne, is sentence to two life sentences for the murder of his wife and her lover. Andy is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for after being wrongly convicted even after professing his innocence. While imprisoned Andy befriends a man everyone knows as Red who is known for being able to smuggle things into the prison. Over the years Red is able to get Andy a rock hammer as…

Every one of us experiences challenges in our lives, whether it be daily, weekly, or yearly. Life is a challenge - this is not to be taken negatively, but rather to recognize that life does not always work out the way we want it to. Our lives often become defined by how we deal with the challenges that come about, both ones we fail to meet and those we successfully overcome. What is a challenge? The answer is anything. Obstacles can range from something as unfortunate as being born with a…

Rhetorical Analysis I will be analyzing, "The Supreme Court Says Again: Juveniles Are Different”, a 7 paragraph article written by the Editorial Board and published to the New York Times on January 25, 2016. In discussions of The Supreme Court’s repeated ruling over the last decade, it has become a controversial issue that it is morally and constitutionally wrong to equate offenses committed by emotionally undeveloped adolescents with crimes carried out by adults. While some argue that no…

There are many predictors for crime such as age, race, and class and so on. However, the best predictor is gender as there is a gender gap between men and women for committing crime. Even in policy reflect in the law, women are usually favored to receive lighter sentence for the same offence compared to males, rarely receive the death penalty and are often looked at in a more favored light by judges and juries. There are theories of why there is gap between the genders such as the socialization…

America has effortlessly allowed alcohol to be a tradition in most family’s homes. Those adults of those families all around the United States drive without even thinking that they might be slightly intoxicated. This has always been a problem that never seem to go away. There must be something that needs to be done because the laws right now are clearly not working. Alcohol reduces your ability to make decisions and can blur your vision. All of this is needed to drive effectively. It may be…

Case Summary & Background Patrick Marlowe, who is a former correctional officer of Wilson County in Lebanon, Tennessee, was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges relating to violations of the civil rights of inmates at the Wilson County Jail. Mr. Marlowe was the supervisory corrections officer on the evening shift of the Wilson County Jail from 2001 to early 2003 (Burke, 2006). He and several former correctional officers were convicted at trial of conspiring to violate the rights of inmates…

documentary filmmaking are also part of the Dhamma Brothers and Doing Time films, since they define the oppressive conditions of being in the prison industrial complex, and the necessity for internal spiritual liberation from a dysfunctional system of imprisonment. In many ways, the positive effects of vipassana mediation illustrate the importance of Buddhist spiritual principles and mediation as a form of internal liberation from the oppression of capitalistic systems of the prison industrial…

prisoner would cost thousands of dollars a year for this single prisoner as stated in an article by Michael Jacobson, “Although in 2010 it cost more than $31,000 to keep someone in prison for a year, the study also found a wide range in the cost of imprisonment: from $14,603 per inmate in Kentucky to $60,076 in New York” (Jacobson 1). Many will agree that it would be better to give him the death penalty than keep them alive. I do agree with the death penalty for various reasons. I believe if a…

Bryan Stevenson’s novel, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, focuses on the narrative of one of his first cases as a young lawyer. He shares the story of Walter McMillian, a young man sentenced to death for a murder that he did not commit. Stevenson’s primary objective with this novel is to draw attention to broken criminal justice system. The utilization of a primarily logos argument can only be justified if their is equality within the given system. However, when issues such as…