Yuma Territorial Prison

Orwell: There is a difference between “sanity” and “truth”, and Winston would have not been able to survive in the 1984 society because he was so different from everyone else. We, as a society, give the meaning of words. If everyone believes in something that is what makes them sane. If a large number of people believe in something that must make it true, truth is what we make it. If you don’t believe what everyone else believes that is what makes you insane. Truth and reality is whatever…

In the United States tax payers are ending up paying their taxes towards prisons and the prisoner with ending with budget cuts.Since this "Within the U.S taxpayers spend an average of $31,286 towards each prisoner"(unanimous}. This extreme amount of pay is helping keep surrounding areas safe and well kept but with budget cuts this won 't help. nearly every year taxpayers spend millions upon billions on correctional facilities. This budget cut isn 't helping tax payers at all because its just…

into doing certain things. As a juvenile one does not fully understand the severity, or the consequences that follow behind committing a crime. Unfortunately, “ children as young as 13 years old have been tried as adults and sentenced to die in prison, typically without any consideration of their age or circumstances of the offense. Furthermore, since a juvenile is not fully aware of the time, there is no justice in sentencing them to…

Page Break Historical Background The first capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, laws were recorded in the Eighteen Century B.C. in King Hammaurabi’s Code of Babylon. This law stated twenty-five crimes punishable by death. Throughout the world many different countries adopted their own capital punishment laws. Some laws, including the Draconian Code of Athens, made capital punishment the punishment for all crimes. These laws allowed punishment by means of impalement, stoning,…

In the case Weems V. US the US Supreme Court decided that though is has not been determined to what means is a punishment cruel and unusual. It was upheld, however; that the definition should not be held only to the”evil” described by the framers of the constitution. On May 3, 1946, a seventeen year old Willie Francis was convicted and was unsuccessfully executed through the means of an electric chair. Six days after the attempted execution, a new warrant of death was issued and so began the…

have been programs implemented to stop the cycle, however; they are not truly used to their full potential and becomes useless. I believe that I have developed a program in which it might put an end to the cycle of keeping the convicts in and out of prison. The program is not based on correctional, punishment or incapacitation but on a form of harm reduction, which is trying to prevent harm from happening by allowing a designated place for users of drugs to relieve themselves. My program In…

The Death Penalty This time and day any controversial topic is a very sensitive topic to speak on. People are natural emotional creatures making it difficult to disagree or to have your own opinions. We are all so quick to blame society we forget society isn’t just one individual. Statements like “Society has taught us” “Society makes us believe” are statements heard on a daily basis. We are all society. We believe what we want to believe. We all as a community need to understand that people are…

incarcerated can leave detrimental effects on them. Most prisons do not allow the time a mother needs with their child to make a strong and intimate bond. Women’s prisons make telephone calls extremely expensive so even if a mother wanted to contact her children she may not be able to afford to do so. These children feel lost without their mothers and sometimes it’s far too late for a mother to come back into their lives after years in prison. Kids left behind sets them up for failure in the…

When people think of the death penalty, many times it goes over their heads. We don’t question the death penalty in many cases because it has been in the criminal justice system for so long. (npr.org) The death penalty is legal in 30 states in the U.S and has been around since the early 1600’s. (Zalan) There are many methods of the death penalty: lethal injection, firing squad, electrocution and even a gas chamber. (Muhlhausen) Some may be more painful than others, but they have been performed…

in Kate O’Hare’s prison experience because “The women who were too ill to work in the shop were used in the dining room. Practically all of them were tubercular and syphilitic” (O’Hare 83). Prisons allowed diseased individuals to work despite their disease; they did not care that disease was an issue. One prisoner in Kate O’Hare’s prison story had “open syphilitic sores dripping with pus” (O’Hare 82). There was no immediate reaction to preventing the spread of disease because prison is a place…