Sing Sing prison

The 1975 film involves a criminal named Randle who pleads insanity after getting into trouble once again (IMDb, 1990). As Randle is involuntarily moved to the mental institution, he rebels against the domineering nurse and rallies up the patients (IMDb, 1990). The ratings of this movie were 95%, which is very high for a film rating (Rotten Tomatoes). Randle becomes enemies with Nurse Ratched as she is an authority figure who enforces the rules and correct behavior, while Randle is a rule-breaker…

The Spilt Sense In Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, This insight will focus more on the death of Lizaveta as it more notable to how the killer is affected by it. Thus, the killing of Lizaveta with an axe and the subsequent inner struggle of the protagonist reflects his dual personality dilemma more than the killing of Alyona Ivanova. First, Raskolnikov's name means schism which refers to a divided sense that occurs between two entities based on opinions or beliefs. The fact that…

In the Robinson vs Ewell case, due to his skin color, Tom Robinson is falsely convicted of rape and sent to jail, and seeing no point of life, dies while trying to escape prison. Jem and Scout, the son and daughter of Atticus Finch, had their lives almost taken by Bob Ewell, who was infuriated about Atticus revealing his secret. Dill, who was a great friend of the Finches, had a cruel and unforgiving childhood, where he was…

Inmates are granted to appeals that could take for over 30 years, and during those years it costs money to give them extra legal resources, attorneys, multiple trials, and special single celled death row prison. Arthur Alarcon and Prof. Paula Mitchell of California revealed the breakdown of the amount on a death row inmate on their assessment of cost. They concluded that the cost of death penalty since 1978 have increased $4 billion. Of the $4 billion, $1…

There are many political topics that you don’t bring up at the dinner table due to everyone’s heated stances; the death penalty topic is one of those. Whether you believe in the statement “an eye for an eye” or that no human should be ethically killed based on their mistakes, your choice solely depends on your beliefs. That is why I am fascinated with this topic. Everyone has a right to their opinion; therefore, they should feel as if they can express it. Our nation, the United States of America…

When we think of Genocide what do we think of? Vicious and remorseless killers, A brutal Sadist, armies wiping out anyone in their path, or an average citizen just following orders? It is this final option that Browning chooses to focus on for this book and the choices made by these Ordinary men. The book begins by giving the reader statistics of the Nazi Holocaust in Poland, then going on to describe how the genocide began in the city of Bialystok and other close towns as they escalated from…

article, McKirdy displays information for both sides of the controversial argument. He writes: Advocates say it is a powerful deterrent against serious crime, while others point to the problems -- and cost -- of keeping violent offenders in general prison populations. In many countries,…

The Theme of Morality in Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe’s novel, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders is a story about the life of a beautiful woman who was born in Newgate Prison. Moll was determined to rise from the lower class she was born into, therefore she used marriage several times in order to obtain financial security. In the story, she was willing to sacrifice moral principles in order to gain prosperity. Her fear of poverty led her to commit many crimes, including…

How Yossi Ghinsberg struggled, won and survived against all odds in the Amazon rainforest Yossi Ghinsberg, an Israeli traveler spent his days in extreme pain and starvation for three long weeks in 1981. Through these three weeks he survived venomous snakes, survived from almost drowning while he was travelling through South Africa. His unbelievable story of survival that he calls miraculous has now been made into a documentary, popular in near about 160 countries. Recently his book, Lost in the…

This novel is set in the 1950’s in a forced labor prison camp, run by the Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Settlements, better known by the Russian acronym: GULAG. Although subject to the harsh, frosty winter conditions the prisoners were entitled to the slightest of independence in terms of food, clothing, leisure’s and much more. This altogether contributes largely to the theme of injustice in the novel. The protagonist of novel is Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. He is a prisoner…