Prison escape

is very wrong. I completely overlooked the officer to inmate ratio, with the inmates greatly outnumbering the officers. If an altercation happens and an inmate happens to obtain a gun from an officer in their cell block, that inmate can potential escape, harm other officers and inmates, or kill someone. So, it makes sense for officers to not be armed, and more sense for them to have nonlethal…

As a result between the years of 1980 to July 1989 about 1109 people had been hanged. By the end of July 1989 about 283 prisoners were held on death row at Pretoria Central Prison. The then minister of justice, Kobie Coetsee, stated that 43,5% of inmates on death row was overcrowded. The S v Makwanyane case is a very important case when it comes to the topic of the death penalty. In this case Makwanyane was sentenced to death…

Tomasz soon finds out what the second day of captivity brings. His first task every morning is to assemble for roll call along with everyone else. He has no idea what this means but he learned quickly. He just follows everyone else. Every day, sometimes several times daily, the roll call is conducted in the massive open courtyard in the center of camp. It’s the only place in camp not overcrowded, and the open air smells a lot better than inside any of the buildings. It isn’t so much as a roll…

Franz Kafka once declared, “I am a cage in search of a bird.” Through this very complex quote, Kafka successfully points out the fact that prison has to seek for man, merely because man does not wish to be imprisoned. But what purpose would a cage serve without the presence of a bird? It would not serve its purpose to contain if there was nothing confined within its bars. Situations may not always present an outcome of the preferable circumstances, however it is imperative to understand that…

trauma occurred in childhood. Any vulnerability of Do-joon is, indeed, highlighted when confided to his mother that he remembers being poisoned by it. This episode, which had previously disappeared from his conscious memory resurfaces as Do-joon is in prison. Her mother comes to see him and discovers that he has half of the face covered with bruises and bumps. He told…

human contact. What is interesting is that in a sense, Jack and Joy have their own culture and norms. It was seen as “normal” to talk to toothbrush and toilet bowl and door. However, it was taboo to talk down onto yourself or become pessimistic about escape. The general agreement was that the people that inhabited room hated old Nick because he was a scum. The only laws set by Joy were to love one another. Going further, Jack showed signs of ethnocentrism. The new world consisted of so many…

A Utilitarian Case For Capital Punishment On November 21, 1973, a man named Troy Leon Gregg murdered two men while hitchhiking in an attempted robbery in the mountains of Georgia. In the case Gregg v. Georgia, Gregg was sentenced to the electric chair by a Georgia Grand Jury and this decision was upheld by the US Supreme Court after many appeals. It was deemed that the death penalty does not violate the eighth amendment of the constitution that prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.…

Mockingbirds are known for their beautiful song and mimicking the tune of other birds. They don’t eat your flowers and nest in places that are inconvenient for people. There is no reason to kill these birds and that is why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. So how does a lucid bird like this manage to recur in multiple characters in To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM)? TKAM is narrated by an ten year old girl named Jean Louise Finch, or better known as Scout. She recounts the events leading up to how…

• Magnon paid the Thénardiers ten francs a month for the boys. • The Thénardiers and Magnon were the only ones who knew that the boys were not Magnon’s boys. • Thénardier become Jondrette at this time • Time passes, Magnon gets arrested and the boys are thrown out into the world. • Gavroche (Thénardiers’s oldest son) is content living his life on his own on the streets. • Gavroche ends up finding his two brothers in the streets and takes them under his wing (he does not know they are his…

The hunger for revenge comes from the passion a person feels when they have been wronged, and science has even proven that it is completely natural. However, throughout the course of history, it has become more and more clear that although seeking and obtaining revenge can be extremely satisfying, it is not always the practical form of justice. This truth is summed up beautifully in a famous quote from Mahatma Gandhi, preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement, that stated “an eye for…