Prison cell

around his neck, being drag out by correction officers. This image sticks with him as he sits across his public attorney, Brendan O’Meara. “Can you get me out?”. Brendan replies with a plea deal offer (prosecutors offering three and a half years in prison in exchange for guilty plea). Kalief declines. O’Meara…

to get Socrates out of jail, and Socrates wants to serve his death sentence because that’s what he believes is the right thing to do. In Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 Martin Luther King was locked up in a jail cell for protesting peacefully against discrimination. While sitting in his cell, King wrote an open letter to tell people that it is morally right to disobey laws that seem unfair and take direct action rather than waiting for the courts to do something about…

especially through our teenage years. We make mistakes and don't think of the lifelong consequence that might come with the action we did. But I disagree with punishing a child with life in prison without parole. Prison should be something that you learn from and rehabilitate to be given a second chance in life. Life in prison should not be something that's given to every teenage that commits a crime. I agree with the majority of the Supreme Court Justices that this sentences violates the eighth…

The punishment of prolonged solitary confinement, a rampant practice in American penitentiary institutions, is a form of psychological torture and violates subjected inmates’ 8th Amendment rights. The American prison system was first established as a rehabilitative asylum but has devolved into a degrading institution in which human rights are regularly violated. In order to secure just and humane treatment of inmates within the penal system, prolonged solitary confinement must be abandoned. In…

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 Justice located in San Francisco, California, “By…

those shows may have some very disturbing plots). Certainly, a case like this would warrant a death sentence. I mean, would you really want your taxes to pay for that person’s sub-par prison meals as they serve out a life term? Especially in modern times, when people live very long lives? Sure, there’s always private prisons, but can we trust that unregulated corporate facilities will not abuse their powers? If the current state…

Prisoners tend to be looked down upon due to their previous actions. They do their time and then life goes back to normal. Or does it? 48 out of 50 states in America do not allow prisoners to vote and 11 out of 50 take away their voting rights completely. (felonvoting.procon.org) Everybody makes mistakes and people do change. America is supposedly the land of the free, but our government is definitely doing some unjust things like not allowing prisoners to vote. As a matter of fact, there are…

Another con that I think is very important is that juveniles shouldn’t be in adult prison or penitentiary. These kids are maybe around the age of 13-17 with 30, 40 or 50-year old’s. Its not a very nice place and especially since they are still kids, they shouldn’t be near them because you don’t know what could happen to the kids. For example, Rodney Hulin, who is 5’2 about 125 pounds entered a Texas state prison at the age of 16 after being convicted of second-degree arson. Rodney had set a…

circumstance may be. There are a variety of ways that prisons are able to protect the eighth amendment rights of those who are incarcerated. Throughout the history of prisons there has been many amounts of claims and ways that prisoners…

In Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson depicted clearly the unfair ways the poor and the incarnated were treated in the criminal justice system. Stevenson educated his readers about the death penalty, women’s prison, and youth being tried as adult in the criminal system without being to overwhelm and factual. Another way Stevenson brought his novel to life is through his characters. Bryan Stevenson makes you feel every emotion his character went through; it was as if we went through every tribulation…