Penology

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…

Currently the rate of individuals who return to prison has increased significantly over the past decade. The re-entry of those incarcerated is also known as the recidivism rate. The question being debated is why such a large number of these people are continuing to involve themselves in illegal action that result in them to be incarcerated once again. I will also focus on those who are at a juvenile age because they have a higher risk of recidivism due to the fact they don’t form that…

Kant’s belief on the right of punishment is grand and far reaching. To him, the right of punishment is a supreme power of the government. The government has only the right to punish those who have committed a crime; no punishment may be ordered “merely as a means for promoting another Good” of society or an individual (355). Punishing an innocent man breaches the principles of justice; only criminals (of both private and public crimes) are to be punished. Kant warns us that the Penal Law is a…

Capital Punishment is the legal killing of someone due to the fact that they were convicted of a serious crime. Many states in the United States have made capital punishment illegal, thirteen states still have capital punishment. In Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Virginia, Florida, South Carolina, and Tennessee if an inmate is on death row these states allow for electrocution. In Arizona and California inmates on death row will be sentenced to gas inhalation. In Delaware and Washington inmates are…

The death penalty, also known as the capital punishment, dates all the way back to the eighteenth century B.C. (“Death Penalty”). Initially, the death penalty began with beheading, boiling, burying, and burning (“Death Penalty”). In today’s time, it generally consists of electrocution or lethal injection. Many of the accused that suffered these fates were innocent due to the unfair trials and assumptions of the judge and jury (“Death Penalty”). This ancient punishment is still involved in…

During the year of 2003, the Prison Rape Elimination Act was passed. It stated that “Juveniles were five times as likely to be sexually assaulted in adult facilities rather than in juvenile facilities.” There is also a possibility for sexual assault on the juvenile prisoner for the first forty eight hours (In Prison, Teenagers Become Prey). Maurice Chammah discusses an experience he had encountered with a prisoner referred to as John Doe 1. He was only seventeen years old and being sentenced to…

Lit Review In 1965, Gordon Moore predicted that technology would rapidly improve every 18 months, fast forward to 2016 and we have improved so well technologically that it has become something nobody could have ever predicted. We are living in a golden age of technology with innovations being discovered and produced every day. In 2016, we tend to make fun of technology that is only 10 years old because and can never imagine how we could possible survive with relying on such an old device.…

their breath and create a dramatic, terrifying scene. The firing squad is when five well-trained sharpshooters get behind the alleged criminal on death row. With only one sharpshooter with a bullet in his gun, the prisoner does not know which well-trained sharpshooter has his life in their hands while the prisoner anxiously waits for his time to come with the mindset of teasing and frustration. Last but not least is hanging, they strap a Noose around your neck, which tightens more and more with…

Throughout the memoir, A Question of Freedom, Dwayne Betts had faced a lot of obstacles and limited choices/decisions behind bars in a Fairfax County Jail in Virginia. There are many reasons why others define Betts as a “felon,” but he describes himself as a “success,” Betts chose himself as a “learner,”. Others define me as “motivated” and others define Betts between “failure to success”. In addition, failure is a negative side to face in life and becoming successful is a positive side to face…

Capital punishment is not a decision to be taken lightly, but in some instances it is the right decision to be made. People have such a hard time thinking that anybody deserves this end of the line punishment, but they need to understand there needs to be a way to help prevent people from thinking that all that can happen is they end up in prison. That sort of mindset is detrimental to a society, letting people think that they can commit haynes crimes and only go to prison. There is a…