Stateville Correctional Center

Have you ever contemplated what hell is like? If so, I highly encourage you to continue reading. Being an over-analyzer is as close to hell as humanly possible; believe me, I would know, as I suffer from the burden of being an over-analyzer. According to Urban Dictionary, an over-analyzer is one who looks too deeply into any situation and over thinks everything (emphasis on everything). As accurate as this definition appears to be, it doesn’t entirely encompass what it means to be an…

“On walls and windows and bins and cars all around the rubble pile, New Yorkers have left messages in the grainy dust. They are expressions of anger, love, despair, and patriotism, a form of contemporary poetry that will last not nearly as long as the memories” (Time Wire Reports, 2001). On September 11, 2001, tragedy struck the Twin Towers of New York City, and the citizens of America knew that every moment would forever be imprinted in their minds and history. The attacks could be seen from…

September 11, 2001 is a date that is ingrained in the minds of anyone who was old enough to hear the reporters on the news stations announce that an airplane has hit the World Trade Center. Even before we knew the extent of the damage, or we were told about the other planes, I knew this would affect me. With less than five years of service with United Airlines, I knew that even plane crash from any airline was a big deal. A live camera focused on the towers when it happened. The south tower was…

between professors and students, and also provides services on how to study. Since the discovery of the Internet it has become increasingly easy to search for information on topics students are unaware of. Kristen Purcell, a writer for Pew Research Center, wrote an article “How Teens do Research in the Digital World,” claiming “Students access a greater depth and breadth of information on topics that interest them; and many become more self-reliant researchers (Purcell).” Computers have been…

The United States is known as no stranger to criminal correctional needs. Throughout the United States history there have been ways in dealing with those who had broken a law, and it usually involved some sort of court system and possibly jail time. When one looks into correctional systems there is one thing that is missing: children. While there has always been a place for adults who commit crimes to go, those under eighteen did not and are seriously overlooked in criminal history. Before the…

of Chicago. Everyone had been doing their normal daily deeds when an unexpected fire started. The fire killed hundreds and left thousands homeless. This disaster fire grew quickly making it difficult to stop it as it spread north and east to the center of the city. Many people still to this day do not know or have evidence on how this chaos began. Although there are many theories about it, the O’Leary cow theory is the most well-known one. Legend holds a cow started this disaster.…

was the ringmaster behind one of the biggest prison scandals in recent years. Ciavarella was said to have received more than $ 2,600,000 of secret income from a series of deals with the developers of a privately run, for-profit juvenile detention center (Temple University of the Commonwealth, 2012). “The goal of juvenile court has always been rehabilitation, but it was a revolving door of punishment and incarceration under former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella” (Kalinowski, 2014, p.1),…

abuse. This abuse could be sexual, physical, or verbal. This can be seen in an article written by Maurice Chammah’s article, A Boy Among Men. The article is about a boy named John Doe who was sentenced to spend 3 years in the Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia, Michigan for a couple break ins. In prison, John faced almost instant sexual abuse. It started by people sliding letters under the door, Chammah wrote, “not always explicit, some certainly were. “You are one sexy…

On September 11, 2001, there was chaos in the streets of New York; screams could be heard for miles as dust and debris flooded the air. The view from above showed towers falling from the sky, an event unlike anyone has seen since. More than two thousand people lost their lives that day in Lower Manhattan, as families were broken. This is what terrorism is, it’s meant to strike fear and disrupt everyday life. It’s meant to attack the innocent without any justified reason. Sociologists would view…

One of the worst terrorists attacks in U.S. history occurred in the date 9/11 in 2001. The attack was about the World Trade Center collapsing to the ground, the Pentagon under attacked, and an attempting to destroy the White House. I interviewed my mom and she says this attack had enough coverage all over the local news and she watched the attack at the hospital after giving birth to my brother. I previously never knew that the Twin Towers were alive or gone today until I found out it’s gone now…