War crimes

jails and prisons than ever before. In my opinion, the number one cause of mass incarceration is the war on drugs the United States has been fighting since president Nixon’s era. The United States imprisons more people than any other nation in the world, largely due to drug laws and their mandatory sentencing requirements. It all started when in 1971 president Richard Nixon declared that the war on drugs was…

members of the group included Leslie Van Houten, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and more, all of whom were devoted to their leader, Charles Manson, which led them to commit the killings. Charles Manson, born in 1934, spent his youth committing crimes that led him to be brought in and out of jail, and it was around the summer of 1967 that he recruited his members into his cult. In the cult, Charles corrupted the minds of the young innocent people by preaching his ideology of an upcoming racial…

Alcatraz was a home for the worst people that crime ever knew; that is why it is important to explore the history of Alcatraz, escaped inmates, and the daily routine for these horrendous people known to crime. Alcatraz is located in San Francisco, California on an island. The island where Alcatraz was once housed is equivalent to 1.25 miles long. The island was discovered by a famous Spanish naval officer named Juan Manuel de Ayala in 1775, who was the first European who entered the San…

The 21st Century Richard Wright was born after the the Civil War but before the Civil Rights movement. If Richard Wright were writing an auto-biography today, about a black boy growing up in the United States Of America, Richard would write about the, police racial profiling different races from white, the unemployment between whites and blacks, and the percentage of teens of graduate that are black and whites. Richard Wright would write about these things in modern time of the year 2016. If…

Moral and legal behaviors are a vital part of criminal justice administration. “Morals involves creating judgments concerning what's sensible or bad, right or wrong.” they assist to create right decisions once we are in an exceedingly perplexity that involves ethical issues. The Criminal justice administration faces moral issues very often and it's vital to subsume them in an exceedingly professional manner. The administration suffers with issues in certain situations that are arduous to handle…

others factors come to place, as everything needed to create a drug war zone is evident in Puerto Rico. Unfortunately, this recession that started around 2008, which was cause due to a move from…

Martinez 7 America, the land of the free, has the world's largest prison population in 2014 (1.5 million) decreased by 15,400 (down 1%) from year end 2013. Although we have decreased in incarcerations we continue to be the number one nation with the highest incarceration rate. And our overcrowded prisons are disproportionately filled with blacks and Hispanics, causing many urban communities to lose trust in a system they consider biased and racist…

situation is. The reason being, is because why kill a criminal who should do time for his crime instead of being killed and not feel any pain? In some cases killing is considered justice because for example, if someone breaks in your home or business trying to harm you; you have the right to defend yourself even if it leads to death. In other cases it’s considered murder…

Is it justice when we give power to legislature to make fixed sentences for every crime and offense? Or should congress give judges less freedom to change sentences to the mitigating facts of each criminal offense within a specified range? For recent decades, the increase of mandatory minimum penalties for crimes together with the huge increase in the prison inmate population, has compelled many to reconsider this question for criminal justice. The Supreme court has kept a lengthy mandatory…

military weapons such as tanks, battering rams, armor, and stun grenades. The level of crime decreased, yet the number of swat team has increased. However, the department of defense should not be selling military machinery equipment to the police department. The weapons can be uses in war, but not in the city. Therefore, the government should not offer any military weapons to any law enforcement agency. All wars on drugs and terrorism attacks; we are becoming less of free people by destroying…