Prison-industrial complex

All through history, people have been overly ambitious in the pursuit of power. However I think that Richard Nixon takes this to a whole new level with his attempts to control the results of the 1972 presidential election, and it eventually led to his downfall both in politics, and the eyes of his fellow Americans. People may say that Watergate wasn’t as it was made out to be, and that the entire thing was overblown, but they are wrong, not only was it as bad as the public originally thought,…

The era of English history from Queen Elizabeth I to Charles II is significant to the history of intelligence as it paved the way for intelligence today strategies today. Intelligence in this era of English history was some of the earliest forms. During Queen Elizabeth’s reign, she had Sir Francis Walsingham, in charge of intelligence. He is considered by some to be England’s first spymaster. With his help, Queen Elizabeth I imprisoned her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, and kept her under constant…

During the 1970s, President Richard Nixon was beginning his run for re-election when a burglary took place at the Watergate Building in 1972, which ultimately changed things forever; it lead to the first resignation of a United States president, and changed American politics. Journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein began writing about the case which changed the way people trusted their American government, as well as the way they viewed the President(All the President’s Men). The system of…

impeached. This is the first time in United States History that a president has left the office in the middle of his term. Nixon ended up being pardoned of all his crimes by Gerald Ford, his successor. However, many people on Nixon’s staff were sent to prison for serious crimes, like perjury. The Watergate Scandal is important because it helped to create a lasting separation between the government and the people. It also showed that even the highest up people in the United States were not immune…

This paper is my reaction to the article Watergate. The article describes, in detail, what events went down during the Watergate Scandal. The scandal started in June of 1972 when 5 men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters and were charged for burglary. Over the course of the scandal, 28 of Nixon's aides and officials were charged with crimes that were connected to the President. President Nixon finally resigned in August of 1974. I was…

Watergate Multiple people call this the “Scandal that Brought Down Nixon.” The watergate scandal was a big factor and political topic in 1972-1974. The watergate refers to the hotel in Washington, one of Washington’s plushest hotel. The Watergate has an intriguing historical and political background arising out of political events of the 1960s such as Vietnam and the publication of the Pentagon papers, but the real problem begins in 1972. by the time the burglars were arrested, Nixon was…

The Watergate scandal, ran by President Richard Nixon and his committee to re-elect him, was considered one of the greatest political scandals in our world today. The scandal consisted of performing illegal tasks behind everyone’s back and covering reasoning behind each of them by lying on a consistent basis. Most of the task, such as approving the Houston Plan (or Plumbers) and the U. S. bombing took place months before the day of election. Unfortunately, the members of the Plumbers were…

political environment prompted the need for a forceful political campaign. It seems as if President Nixon would stop at nothing to be re-elected. It was just after midnight on July 17 when the office of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C. was broken into. Hopefully, this time the devices would work. The first mission to wiretap the office’s phones on May 28th failed. The devices just didn’t work properly. They returned. Burglars Bernard Barker,…

Reiman and Leighton’s book, The Rich Get Richer And the Poor Get Prison explores a theory that the American criminal justice system is set up in such a way that it is very detrimental to the lower class. The typical reaction to a theory like this is to assume that it is a conspiracy, but Reiman and Leighton make sure to include a section on why this is real, and not a tinfoil hat conspiracy. Their reasoning is that while the criminal justice system is failing to significantly cut down crime,…

million people in its prisons and jails on any given day and over five million of its citizens are currently under some form of justice department supervision. These facts make me ask myself, “If the crime rates are decreasing, then why is the prison population increasing?” However, The Perpetual Prisoner Machine provides the answer to this question and, shockingly, it has little to do with crime or justice. The answer is “profit.”The Perpetual Prisoner Machine is not simply the prison system…