San Quentin State Prison

In late spring of 1918, the first phase, known as the "three-day fever," appeared without warning. Few deaths were reported. Victims recovered after a few days. When the disease surfaced again that fall, it was far more severe. In the United States alone over 700,000 people died, which is greater than the total number of American deaths in both World Wars, The Korean War, and Vietnam, combined. The greatest number of deaths from the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-1919, however, occurred in young…

I have a sense of myself that goes beyond what I present to the world. I have reached my ceiling and I am now breaking through it. By the end of my 40s’ I’ll be the first woman in my lineage to pursues a college degree. Recently education has empowered me and opened myself to be more involved in life. I was born in Spain 48 years ago to a family where women didn’t have a voice and were not encouraged to develop a profession. Because my family life was not pleasant I took refuge in music and…

In the United States there is a problem of overcrowding on our prisons. Overcrowding is when the amount of prisoners in a prison exceed the amount of space that the prison has. This is a growing concern because it can cause many problems. It can cause misconduct among the inmates, psychological stress, poor prison conditions, and post release recidivism. The problem continues to grow and it seems nothing is being done about the issue and many people don’t even know we have this problem. However,…

They are deporting US citizens and doing it to clear out prison space for more people, and then making more money off of it for the deportations. For the 238 adjucators of the Immigration department, they have 390,000 cases(2009) in a year. That is an average of 4.48 cases per day., but if you take out vactions…

The Never-Ending Story One Topic that left me confused, is the conversation about the many issues within the prison system. Particularly whether the prison system works and if we as a country are doing more harm than good. Subsequently, we have an incarceration system, of epidemic proportions, that circumscribes its prisoners. In the same respect, this system also conceives new prisoners as a result of this cycle. These effects are aided by laws like Mandatory Minimum Sentencing, which mandates…

No place, not even Texas, comes close… This is not a problem peculiar to Oklahoma, far from it. Wrongful convictions occur every month in every state in this country, and the reasons are all varied and all the same—bad police work, junk science, faulty eyewitness identifications, bad defense lawyers, lazy prosecutors, arrogant prosecutors” (Grisham…

“Freeway Killer” was Randy Steven Kraft. Convicted of 16 murders and believed to be guilty of 51 other murders, suspected to have claimed more victims then Patrick Kearney and William Bonin combined. Randy Kraft was born in California, which is the state where all of his murders happened (crimelibrary.com.) Kraft joined the ROTC for a year then left and became a bartender; later on Kraft joined the Air Force but after coming out as gay he was discharged and forced out of the military, leaving…

pen names, for example: Rene Lafayette, Captain Herbert Reynold, Mr. Spectator, etc. Finally, Tailwind Willies, his first book was published, in 1932. This book was based off of an experience he had with a friend as they skimmed over four or five states. He wrote multiple books, of multiple different genres including: mysteries, westerns, aerial thriller, high sea adventure, and a little bit of romance. His writing became so popular that he was elected as President of the Author Fiction Guilds,…

Prisoners throughout the United States are returning to a life of crime after their sentence is finished. Prison was intended to rehab its inmates; however, it is now creating more advanced criminals than what they originally entered the system as. The effects on criminals from society, prison, and the government are destructive and breed hopelessness. The United States retaining the largest incarnation rate in the world is unacceptable (Gleissner). Recidivism is on the rise and America’s…

Security Threat Groups, also referred to as gangs are either an formal or informal group of prison inmates who set up either by race or by their beliefs. The evolution of gangs have developed a threat to the safety of prison officials and other inmates. Some of the major security threat groups include the Aryan Brotherhood, The Klu Klux Klan, The Folks, The Nation of Islam, and MS13. Groups within the correctional facilities are categorized as STGs depending upon parameters such as gang history,…