Imprisonment and detention

Texas has 125 records of wrongful convictions since 1989. Unlawfully charging someone with a crime they did not commit, barely looking at the evidence, wrongly convicting someone so they are sentenced to life in prison was the case for both Randolph Arledge and Kennedy Brewer . Randolph Arledge was convicted for the murder of Carolyn Armstrong and Kennedy Brewer for the slaying of Christina Jackson. Both Brewer and Arledge have what they were charged for, evidence behind the story, why they were…

Did Mikhail Markhasev, a Ukrainian immigrant with possible mob ties, kill Ennis Cosby? An exclusive report from Radar Online, Oct. 5, 2015, asked him that question to discover the truth behind Jewel Star’s wild accusations. Jewel is the aunt to Autumn Jackson, who is Bill Cosby’s illegitimate daughter and she wrote a tell-all book on Bill. She claims that Bill hired a hit man to kill his son to keep Autumn a secret. A staff member for Radar Online wrote to Mikhail to find out the truth. Was he…

In contrast to Karen and Lorelei who portray stereotypical blonde bimbos, the protagonist in Legally Blonde, a comedic and inspiring movie published by Type A Film in 2001, defies the dumb blonde archetype by depicting a blonde hair female with both beauty and brain. Reese Witherspoon plays a ditzy sorority girl, Elle Woods, who is a bubbly, attractive, and Caucasian female with blonde hair. She is completely in love with her boyfriend, Warner Huntington III, who soon breaks up with Elle stating…

Imagine a scenario where two family members or friends are killed. Justice should be given, correct? Now imagine it was a 15-year-old boy who committed the crime. Should he receive lax sentencing due to his age?, although he knew exactly what he was doing. The answer is emphatically no. He should be tried as an adult because he made an adult decision by killing. Juveniles who commit violent crimes such as rape, murder or arson should be tried as an adult. Courts focus on age, not the crime…

to survive with. The next critical stage, in which a brain enters development, begins during the adolescence years, where teenagers learn more than ever (aside from ages one to two). When a youth commits a crime and then sentenced to a juvenile detention center, and quite often adult prisons, the young adult loses valuable time to turn their lives around and learn valuable morals, ideas, and general knowledge. As said by the executive director Dan Maccalair of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal…

Australia’s offshore immigration detention centres, The International Journal of Human Rights, 20:7, 1018-1038 Amy Nethery and Rosa Holman argue the circumstances and causes of lacking human rights in Australian offshore detention centres (ODCs). They do this through discussing the inefficiency in governmental secrecy, deterrence, regulation and private company control in their journal article “Secrecy and Human Rights Abuse in Australia’s Offshore Immigration Detention Centres”. Written in…

mandatory detention for processing? Provide a brief background discussion of your chosen ethical question that explains why it is important and in need of analysis. An ‘unlawful non-citizen’ is the term used by the Australian Government to describe any persons attempting to enter Australia without a valid immigration visa (Department of Immigration and Border Protection 2015). Under Australia's Migration Act 1958, unlawful non-citizens are to be transferred to immigration detention centres…

juvenile incarceration in California the community needs of East Los Angeles have changed. California is rated among the worst states by placing a large amount of juveniles in detention and correction facilities from the ages of 10-21. (Cite) In 2002, California was ranked 46th out the 50 states with the rate of 392 youth in detention and correctional facilities. (Cite) There were a total of 53,830 juveniles incarcerated by police and a total of 31,081 juveniles were accused of committing a…

incarcerated and through DNA, try to help them regain their freedom that they deserve. Their mission statement is “to free the staggering number of innocent people who remain incarcerated, and to bring reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment”. Since the Innocence Project Started, they have so far released 342 wrongfully committed people from jail who on average spent about 14 years in jail for a crime that they did not commit. That is 342 people who, without the Innocence…

I personally think that the Death Penalty is wrong because of its not right to kill why should it be right to kill someone else with the death penalty, by going that far with everything you midis well have a purge. If someone if accused with murder then that person should have to deal with a punishment that nobody wants to deal with and that is spending there life in prison looking up for life with nothing to see is walls and bars because killing the person who had done the kill is too easy of a…