Newgate Prison

Nixon and dramatically when Regan was in office. President Regan further developed the agenda of making more money for the rich by using the War on Drugs. This caused incarceration rates to increase as well as the profit of privatized prisons, due to longer prison sentences. Nothing has changed since. No one has been able to change the system so that people aren’t arrested for minor misdemeanors in order to make…

In the United States, the legality of the death penalty was challenged in the landmark Supreme Court case of Furman v. Georgia in 1972. The Court declared that the death penalty in unconstitutional in, at least, certain applications because the punishment violates the Constitution’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. Justice Thurgood Marshall, who argued that the death penalty was unconstitutional in all instances, writes that there are six conceivable defenses given to justify…

My experience at the prison was very insightful and interesting to say the least. I learned things I never knew went on in a prison like how a good amount of the inmates had televisions in their cells or that they could purchase tablets to download music to by using a program called JPay which is a service including money transfer, email, video visitation, parole, and probation payments to inmates throughout 35 states. I was also very shocked to see in front of a few inmate’s cells that they had…

Even though most of the community sentences are not soft, they are considered less harsh compared to prison sentences; implying that community service may not change the behavior of the offenders. The fourth criticism of community sentencing is that it does not make offenders to be ashamed of their behavior. Prisons are an unpleasant place that makes people to suffer from shame and public humiliation (Champion, Hartley and Rabe, 2011). The feeling of the society…

this case, we can follow on the logic of punishment and see not only its explainations in a beautiful lines of the book, but also from the real life. The real case of Chessman explain not only the story of a killer, and how he handled his life in the prison. No, the reason of this book was teaching. The understandinf of the sel-commited crime and the accpetance of punishment. For me the punishment is not a physical but moral, if we arrive to correct the spirit of the reasoning and…

California’s Death Penalty System In the New York Times (28. Sept, A14+) article, “Californians Face Stark Choices on Death Penalty”, Jennifer Medina focuses on the issues with California’s current death penalty system. The state’s system currently prolongs the time period between conviction and execution, which deems it unconstitutional. The courts are unfit to handle the workload of death row cases. Also, the death penalty system costs the state a great amount of money. California is voting to…

young teenage boy, Kenneth Young of 14 years old, tried under Florida law as an adult. Kenneth was guilty of armed robbery and he was condemned by the court judge to go to life jail. It is shocking to me to hear that children are condemned to die in prison in the United States of America mostly kids of color. Also, it is disappointing that teenagers are being punished much severer than adults. Kenneth Young received four life sentences without parole for armed robberies committed at age…

Sharon’s drug addiction began at the age of 22. She started drinking alcohol at parties, not thinking of its future consequences. Drugs soon replaced the alcohol and began using marijuana. She thought it of no harm to her because she did not consider it a “hard” drug like cocaine or morphine. Although she swore to herself to never use such drugs, Sharon soon started using crack cocaine to deal with her personal and family problems. To fund her drug addiction, she worked as a prostitute and a…

When we are talking about the changes in incarceration rates there are many aspects that need to be covered. First, when looking back on last week’s literature, we learned a tremendous amount of knowledge that showed us that the early twentieth century and throughout the mid twentieth century; we saw more push towards rehabilitation. We also saw a push for the more political aspect involved in criminal justice to be not necessarily eliminated, but scaled down. There was a use of professionals in…

give a murderer life in prison without parole, instead of the death penalty (Slow Death of the Death Penalty). However, as shown multiple times, “the death penalty acts as the ultimate retribution for the victim and his or her family and friends. In addition to being a retributive institution, capital punishment acts as a deterrence measure” (Gibson). Also, contrary to what many critics say about the death penalty as opposed to long prison terms, the evidence shows that as prison terms increase,…