Prison Policy Initiative

experienced the oppression throughout her life corresponding to her gender, race, and class. Thus, Davis’ refusal to accept the American policies led to her incarceration. She spoke heavily on the resistance that was transpiring throughout the world, whereas, such movement was overpowering the government’s…

of criminal history, not just in prison but also in society in general. A prior criminal history may affect many aspects of life, from obtaining a secondary education, to being able work in specific career fields, such as: law, law enforcement, or medical careers. When incarcerated prior knowledge of prior criminal history by the correctional officers in charge of your health and welfare can affect the way the inmate is treated and the freedom within the prison they get. Correctional nurses…

or appeal the court case due to a lack of evidence or if there was an error in the case. Last advantage is while incarcerated it helps the teen become a better person and it gives them an understanding of how important life is outside of being in prison. One advantage in Canada is that the system is designed to make punishment is distributed, no one is given less or more punishment based on race. One disadvantage is the criminal justice system is the unfairness that are amongst different…

(1350)Against the Death Penalty: An Analysis of Reiman’s “Moderate” Retribution Theory This argument against the death penalty will examine the “moderate retribution theory of Jeffrey Reiman. In this theory, the premise of retribution for murder defines the validation of the death penalty, yet not in the abuse of justice found in the American criminal justice system. Reiman believes that the death penalty should be abolished because criminals are not always cognitively aware of the crimes that…

Introduction The school-to prison pipeline is an epidemic slowly crippling minority youth all over the country. This unspoken system teaches these children that the only path for them is jail. Jail has become the narrative of the black life in America: Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race. Unfortunately this…

Two-thirds of mothers incarcerated in state prisons lived with their children prior to their arrest” (Incite National, 2014). The children are then not only exposed to criminal acts, but now they no longer have their mother in their daily life. Without support from their mother children are left to…

A former Cincinnati resident was ordering his last meal before execution in prison when the governor reversed his sentence because the DNA on his shoes did not match the blood of the victim. A Cleveland man was freed from his death sentence after serving forty years when a witness confessed to lying during the trial about seeing the murder. A man from Akron was spared from execution after officials confirmed that he was mentally disabled and contained the mind of a second-grader. (Johnson and…

Capital punishment otherwise called the death penalty, is typically when a state or government executes somebody due to a genuine wrongdoing they have submitted. There were capital punishment laws that existed from the seasons of old Babylonian period and the talk of this practice has been recorded in numerous books. This practice proceeds even today in a few nations, such as, the US regardless of the movements that we have made as a general public. Capital punishment issue has regularly been…

of what we call prison today. Today there are 8 million people in prison and most of them are located in the US. This would be an interesting…

database was the James Bain case. James Bain was an exonerate and he served 35 years in prison from 1974 to 2009. He was falsely accused from eyewitnesses, but what shocked me was the amount of time to find out that he was actually innocent. I chose this case because, even when forensic evidence of his blood showed that he wasn’t the criminal, he was still accused and was sent to prison because of it. His prison sentence was 25 to life, and if it wasn’t for his case re-opening, he would have…