Prison Overcrowding

in Kate O’Hare’s prison experience because “The women who were too ill to work in the shop were used in the dining room. Practically all of them were tubercular and syphilitic” (O’Hare 83). Prisons allowed diseased individuals to work despite their disease; they did not care that disease was an issue. One prisoner in Kate O’Hare’s prison story had “open syphilitic sores dripping with pus” (O’Hare 82). There was no immediate reaction to preventing the spread of disease because prison is a place…

into the criminal mind, justice system, and the treatment of those entangled in its web is a daunting task, but in the three articles “A Death in the Box” by Mary Pfeiffer, “Supremacy Crimes” by Gloria Steinem, and “Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex” by Angela Davis, the reality is exposed and reveals a flawed system designed and utilized by the wealthy upper class to punish and theoretically enslave the mentally ill and minority groups. In particular, “Supremacy…

The School to Prison Pipeline is a systemic process usually put into racial and class contexts due to how it disproportionately affects poor students of color. Poor students of color are systematically marginalized and dehumanized, often finding themselves pushed towards deviancy and a criminal lifestyle within the school system. However, the policies and practices that lead to such a pipeline are not exclusive to just poor students of color, but marginalized groups in general. Shannon D. Snapp…

adults is because it is dangerous for kids to be placed in adult prisons. According to statistics, children are “five times more likely to be sexually assaulted, two times more likely to be beaten by staff, and eight times more likely to commit suicide than those in juvenile courts” Due to these facts, it is not safe for kids to be sent to adult prisons. Finally, juveniles should be sent to rehabilitation centers, instead of adult prisons. In the article written by Marjie Lindstrom, titled “Kids…

Online Class Paper In 2010 the U.S Supreme Court ruled juvenile life sentences are illegal for crimes less than murder. More than 2,500 inmates are sentence to life as children, 128 have a chance to obtain release. Kenneth Young is trying to reduce his sentence for a mistake he made when he was fifteen years old. On Saturday July 1st, 2000 Kenneth Young committed an armed robbery with twenty-four year old Jacques Bethea. Jacques held the gun and told a women he wanted to rape her. Kenneth…

should happen in the US but it needs to have restrictions. If its only on serious crimes it will be a positive in America. However, Democrats are against the death penalty, but they say there are no equivalents or other options other than life in prison without parole.…

“The Plague”, written by Albert Camus, is a book which focuses on the struggle a town must go through while facing a deadly plague that has overtaken them. Becoming a prisoner to death will leave its victim an unforgettable sting. But fighting against the sting of death is courageous, even if it ends with defeat. This book shows us that it is not only a remarkably noble act to rebel in the midst of suffering, it is an act of morality that everyone should choose to follow. This story took place…

Danny M. Ms. Speight English Honors 2nd period 9/25/17 The Interesting bet "The death penalty is more moral and more humane than imprisonment for life. Capital punishment kills a man at once, but lifelong imprisonment kills him slowly. Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in the course of many years?" (Chekhov). The author uses tone to make it more suspenseful because you want to be informed of who shall win or lose the…

The Effect of Long-Term Solitary Confinement Communication and social interaction is the foundation of all human relationship. In 2009 author and surgeon Dr. Atul Gawande’s “HellHole”, an article in New Yorker magazine on what's happening in prisons across America. In the article, Gawande describes that humans are social animals, explaining that “once humans are stripped of consistent social interaction, they began to lose their minds.” Through his personal creditability, detailed emotional…

In the debate “Abolish the Death Penalty”, Robert Blecker argues against the motion. He concludes that the death penalty is an appropriate punishment for extreme crimes. His examples of extreme cases include terrorists, mass murderers of vulnerable victims (especially children), rapist murderers, contract killers, and torture killers. According to Mr. Blecker the other option for punishment, life without parole, does not fit the crime in these extreme cases. The argument he uses expresses…