New Jersey

custody, internal order, punishment and the task of reform. The task of internal order was the most difficult for the New Jersey State Prison to accomplish in the 1950s. According to Sykes (2007), maintaining internal order in the New Jersey State Prison posed a great challenge to the guards. In the 1950, the New Jersey State Prison housed some dangerous inmates. The New Jersey State Prison population in 1950 was comprised of sexual psychopaths, aggressive “wolves” that were known for starting…

Cooperstown vacation. I was going to visit New Jersey, New York City, and Pittsburgh on my way to Cooperstown. My parents couldn’t get me to Pittsburgh, so, I went with one of my teammates. We left Chicago on Monday June 30th, 2014, and we arrived in Cooperstown on Saturday July 4th, 2014. We arrived in New Jersey the next morning where we would stay two nights. On the second day in New Jersey, we took a train from New Jersey to New York City. New York City was a really cool place…

of” (33-34), one being the “Dotbusters” (36). Dotbusters were a hate group in New Jersey that were against Indians and other South Asians in the late 1980s. Their main goal of the group was to drive the Indians out of New Jersey by any means necessary. This had taken place in many forms, from “motel raids” (34) to “stones/ thrown through glass windows” (34-35). This was taken from a letter that was published in the Jersey Journal in 1987 by fellow Dotbusters stating, “If I'm walking down the…

New Jersey Resources Corporation (NYSE:NJR) is an energy services holding company whose principal business is the distribution of natural gas through a regulated utility, and which provides other retail and wholesale energy services to customers and invests in midstream assets. The company was founded in 1922 and is based in Wall, New Jersey. The company has approximately 970 employees, of which 25% are covered by collective bargaining agreements. The Company considers its relationship with…

“Lean On Me” is a very inspiring movie to watch just because of the way the producer John G. Avildsen put together the movie and based it on a true story. The story shows how you can take something that is negative and shaped it into something that is positive that can help others in the future. A conceited and unusual teacher returns as principal to the high school he had gotten fired from earlier to find it a place of drug abuse, gang violence, and urban despair. The movie “Lean on Me” is a…

around the Las Vegas strip for playing at night clubs, in 1965 Frank Sinatra would earn a Grammy Award for his album “September of my years” but in just 6 years he would retire. He soon would leave retirement by creating his own TV show and releasing a new album “Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back”, in 1973 later in the 1980’s he was criticized for performing in Sun city, South Africa, he later received many awards including the Philadelphia freedom medal and the Presidential medal of Freedom, he later…

Year: Ended 1985 How the Case Arrived to Supreme Court: A student in attendance of a New Jersey high school was caught smoking in a bathroom by one of her teachers. When brought before the vice principal, the student denied having been smoking, and stated that she didn't smoke at all. In response to this falsity, the vice principal demanded the student’s purse and searched it thoroughly discovering along with the cigarettes, evidence that the student was taking part in drug dealing. The State…

Today everyone is glued to their phones and it is no surprise the urge to pick up your phone in the most unappropriated situation is so common. It is a primary law in New Jersey and many other states, that the driver is prohibited from using any hand-held devices while driving. Nevertheless, people will continue to peek at their phone at any chance they get. Theoretically speaking, if an accident was to occur and the driver was texting the driver should be held liable for any resulting injuries…

The ruling to suppress the statements given by Thompson was considered with the case of Garrity v New Jersey (1967) in mind. This particular case sought the protection against coerced confessions under the Fourteenth Amendment which prohibits the use in subsequent criminal proceeding of the confessions obtained from public officers under a threat of removal…

Kevin Stursberg Rough Draft New Jersey v T.L.O. In 1980, in New Jersey, two young girls were found smoking in the girl’s bathroom which was a violation of school rules. Following this, the assistant principal searched one of the girl’s ( T.L.O.’s) bag to find other evidence suggesting her involvement with illegal drugs. This later went to Juvenile Court where T.L.O. believed that the search had violated her rights; on appeal the case went to the Supreme Court.(New Jersey v TLO Legal…