Imprisonment and detention

In my opinion I believe that an individual’s past can have a significant impact on their present life. Over time we see those effected by their past leaving a tragic mark in their current day to day life. Rather it was war giving a man PDSD or individual being thrown into prison for their political opinion etc. People having their life torn apart by their past will have a hard time recovering and forgetting their past. In Shawshank Redemption a movie about a man thrown into jail for a crime he…

The case of Brandon Mayfield is widely known amongst people who have a deep interest in wrongful convictions. Mayfield is an American Muslim who was wrongfully accused of the bombing that occurred in Madrid back in 2004. In this case, the U.S Federal Bureau of Investigation, commonly known as the FBI, "identified" Mayfield's fingerprint from a bag that contained denoting devices. Despite the fingerprint not being Mayfield's, multiple FBI examiners matched the fingerprints in the bag to…

Once a sex offender term has been expired, some of them are heartfelt and want treatment, others go back to their ways which lands them back in prison. What if I told you that I found a solution to decrease the amount of underage children being raped or molested? Would you consider my proposal? If so, other policies have to change in order to make this policy more beneficial. Suggestion: Sex offenders volunteering for castrations. So far California has had 15 repeated sex offenders who opt to…

Reiman goes into detail that comparing deterrent impact versus life imprisonment and the death penalty shows that there is no difference in deterrent impact between the death penalty and life imprisonment. If life imprisonment is the same as the death penalty then why have the death penalty at all? It’s not worth killing someone else over something that is proven not to work in the study that shows…

Serrano 1 Paola Serrano ERWC Mrs. Kehrmeyer 6 March 2015 Juvenile Justice Adolescents should not be tried or sentenced as an adult. Many of these juveniles have not yet reached a fully grown brain which makes them oblivious of the consequences. The Supreme Court ruled that juveniles who commit crimes could not be sentenced as an adult because it is violates the 8th amendment. There are many people who want to purge the 8th amendment because many people are being affected of these cases. I…

There are many factors to consider when deciding if a criminal should be incarcerated or put into rehabilitation. These factors would be their criminal history, their willingness to change, and what course of action best fits the crime. I believe rehabilitation can be more economical the prison because if they go back to being a functioning member of society than they will be giving back to society via their purchases and taxes, unlike prison where they take tax payer money with no way of…

Being a teen its hard and one dumb mistake or one laps of judgment could land them face to face with a un fair trial which could end up landing them in prison for life without parole. This is the cold reality that faced two small boys, Derek and Alex King,brothers who were reunited after living a part for most of their lives,they were twelve and thirteen years old when the killed their father. They were sentenced 8 years in prison with no education or knowledge of the outside world and when…

Violence is extremely prevalent in society today. The media loves to expound on violent crimes and violent people, and sometimes these crimes involve murder. These murders are gory and occasionally hateful, which is why people are always interested in these murder cases. People want to know how the murder happened or why the murder happened, especially if the murders were committed by women since women are considered sweet and innocent. In Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles, Mrs. Wright is not so…

Would you enjoy seeing a thirteen year old receiving a life sentence on your TV as breaking news? Stating reasons like, children do not know between right and wrong, they live in such a different mindset or argue that these children are not yet considered adults under the law. Though, those who oppose can lay out the case that kids do know the differences between right and wrong. The opposing side may not be very much open to the idea that children would be able to have not as strong of a…

If it is inevitable that life sentences could be given to juvenile who has committed serious crimes, then our judges in the juvenile court should be prim, proper and unbiased in decisions such as this. However, there had been cases that cases in which juveniles, while sentenced for their crime, are being subjected to racial prejudice which took account to the sentences of judges of another race apart from the convicted juvenile. According to article, “Jena 6 case highlights injustice: Louisiana…