Sing Sing prison

Juvenile offenders are minors who are aged between 10 to 18 years. The acts committed by these minors are not crimes since criminal acts are presumed to be committed by adults. On the other hand, the acts committed by minors are referred to as delinquent acts. Since minors are assumed to be innocent and may not necessarily be aware of their acts, there is a need to have a separate detention center for minor, which is different from that of the adults. This argument led to the introduction of…

at who to blame for the increase in incarceration rate I would have to blame the prosecutors. Prosecutors are supposed to protect all they inevitably lead to punishment. And for some reason the only to punish for most complex social problems in prisons. They believe that if someone breaks the law, they should be prosecuted viewing everyone is guilty if not for this crime probably something else (Abbe, 2001) In order to reduce the…

Statistics of prison demographics show that white men use and sell illegal drugs at the same rate as blacks, yet, more blacks are arrested than white men for similar crimes. For instance, 80 percent of people in federal prison and 60 percent of people in state prison for drug felonies are Black or Latino (Drug Policy Alliance 2015). This illustrates that nothing contributes more to the systematic…

Death by fire This story takes place in Corsicana, Texas, where a house fire killed three young children and their father Todd Willingham a twenty-three year old man, accused of setting the fire and killing the children. Initially, there was a lot of evidence against Todd, but later after the execution, fire scientist found no evidence that the fire was arson. At the center of the national death penalty debate in 2010 was a controversial case of Cameron Todd Willingham, the arson-murder of his…

The word “survivor” describes someone who can handle difficulties when obstacles get in their path. Common examples first thought of could be someone who wins a battle with cancer or survives a tragic event such a serious car accident. Most everyone alive is a survivor at some point in his life, and each has a story behind the difficult time he experienced. Two such survivors are portrayed in two literary works, The Crucible by Arthur Miller and A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of…

There is deep rooted racism in today’s policing system. This system is set in order to control people of color and other minorities. In addition to controlling minorities, prisons are able to make a profit in insuring all jail cells are filled and all the people incarcerated are working for almost nothing. Not to mention, people of color are routinely stopped and searched by police officers for no real reason other than the color of their skin. In addition, they are also subjected to constant…

Did you know that there are seven major sections of Hammurabi’s Code? They are, in order, the prologue, the legal procedures, household laws, slavery, trade and business, religion, and epilogue. It’s one of the oldest sets of laws. King Hammurabi made this organized set of laws. Hammurabi’s Code was a very important set of laws. They kept everyone from misbehaving and if someone did misbehave their punishment was very serious. Hammurabi’s Code is a list of organized laws made up…

he pulls the trigger and kills the innocent woman simply going for a walk. He is sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole and your baby boy is gone forever. Would you try to challenge the law? Would you agree with the majority who say life in prison without parole for juveniles is unfair? In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled juveniles could no longer be sentenced to life in prison without the…

When you consider the punishment handed out by Odysseus to the unsuccessful wooers and the maids you have to consider the time in which they live. It was a hard time when death was common and there weren’t any courts of law . The victim was Odysseus and he was the judge as well. That may explain the harshness of the punishments. Nevertheless I believe the punishments (death) were unfair and did not fit the crimes. The only person who I believe deserved death, just like Eurymachus said, was the…

Wrong Decision Sherlock Holmes is one of the best detectives you will ever hear. However Sherlock had a hard decision to pick to have two people to go to jail for committing a crime and stay in jail for life or save their souls and let them go. But in my opinion, Sherlock Holmes possibly made the wrong decision. In the first place, Holmes broke the law for letting them go. Because the victims might leave the state or possibly the country to commit another crime. Also they had it all planned…