Prison escape

there. Since criminals escaping prison is very rare, sentencing them to life in prison could be just as effective. On top of that, a prisoner is more likely to attempt an escape from prison if they are sentenced to death rather than lifetime in jail. Others also fight that these executions reduce overcrowding prisons. Allowing the executions of these convicts will save some space but, these executions are so rare they have very little impact on the population of the prison. Instead of choosing…

except those few inmates who were able to prove their righteousness. California could save one billion dollars over the course of five years by replacing capital punishment with a lifetime in prison. California taxpayers pay ninety thousand dollars more per inmate who is on death row each year than on inmates in prison. In 2007, New Jersey banned death penalties in the state. This makes absolute sense because we have progressed as a society through the course of the centuries. Ages ago,…

Contemporary writing is one of my favorite styles of writing as it is an approach that forces the reader to think critically about a topic as it questions everything about our culture, values, and various forms of art. One contemporary piece that especially intrigued me while studying this period was “America” written by Tony Hoagland due to the simple yet powerful questions that it raises about American life. It is an interesting commentary on how American society has begun to put money ahead…

the number of incarcerations in America has more than tripled and the amount the nation spends to maintain these facilities is six times the annual budget for our education system (Gopnik, 2012). Due to overcrowding and the high density of these prisons, certain inmates cannot be held in the general population…

the prison system is broken, yet most people choose to ignore this by just overlooking what is happening in prisons around the nation. It is known that the United States has the most prisoners of any developed country in the world. According to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) about 25% of the US population is in prison, jail, or under parole or probation. (“Criminal Justice Fact Sheet”). Because of these high numbers we can certainly say that the prison…

Restorative prisons can help many people beyond the perpetrator despite that fact the perpetrator is the only one being treated in these restorative prisons. According to Bazemore (1998), victims are fine with the offender being treated with restorative justice ways. This supports that the victims will not feel like the offender is getting off too easy in restorative prisons. These prisons also help the community because once the perpetrator is out of the restorative prisons they are part of the…

Marianne Szegedy-Maszak’s “The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism” and Dr. Zimbardo’s “The Stanford Prison Experiment” are not considered extremely recent; still they retain relevance and applicability today. Szegedy-Maszak proposes that the Abu Ghraib scandal possesses three key aspects conducive to a torture driven environment: authorization, routinization, and dehumanization. Szegedy-Maszak attempts to provide an explanation for the inhumane actions of American soldiers toward Iraqi…

using the execution method, there are less people behind bars being paid for out of our own money. This means more money going towards what we really want. This also would help with the over population in the prisons. Thus allowing us to move inmates around regularly and close some of the prisons…

In the Robinson vs Ewell case, due to his skin color, Tom Robinson is falsely convicted of rape and sent to jail, and seeing no point of life, dies while trying to escape prison. Jem and Scout, the son and daughter of Atticus Finch, had their lives almost taken by Bob Ewell, who was infuriated about Atticus revealing his secret. Dill, who was a great friend of the Finches, had a cruel and unforgiving childhood, where he…

friend Toby and after they shoot him, they throw the gun to him and make him touch it and frame him for the murder of his own friend Toby and that results in Alex getting sentenced to this horrible placed called “Furnace”, Furnace is a horrible youth prison a mile underground that was created because of gangs and young people murdering each other. Furnace is a terrible place to be because there is no…