Yuma Territorial Prison

Introduction The school-to prison pipeline is an epidemic slowly crippling minority youth all over the country. This unspoken system teaches these children that the only path for them is jail. Jail has become the narrative of the black life in America: Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race. Unfortunately this…

Two-thirds of mothers incarcerated in state prisons lived with their children prior to their arrest” (Incite National, 2014). The children are then not only exposed to criminal acts, but now they no longer have their mother in their daily life. Without support from their mother children are left to…

A former Cincinnati resident was ordering his last meal before execution in prison when the governor reversed his sentence because the DNA on his shoes did not match the blood of the victim. A Cleveland man was freed from his death sentence after serving forty years when a witness confessed to lying during the trial about seeing the murder. A man from Akron was spared from execution after officials confirmed that he was mentally disabled and contained the mind of a second-grader. (Johnson and…

Capital punishment otherwise called the death penalty, is typically when a state or government executes somebody due to a genuine wrongdoing they have submitted. There were capital punishment laws that existed from the seasons of old Babylonian period and the talk of this practice has been recorded in numerous books. This practice proceeds even today in a few nations, such as, the US regardless of the movements that we have made as a general public. Capital punishment issue has regularly been…

of what we call prison today. Today there are 8 million people in prison and most of them are located in the US. This would be an interesting…

database was the James Bain case. James Bain was an exonerate and he served 35 years in prison from 1974 to 2009. He was falsely accused from eyewitnesses, but what shocked me was the amount of time to find out that he was actually innocent. I chose this case because, even when forensic evidence of his blood showed that he wasn’t the criminal, he was still accused and was sent to prison because of it. His prison sentence was 25 to life, and if it wasn’t for his case re-opening, he would have…

Within the topic of criminal corrections in the United States, there are many practices or programs that have been created in order to possibly rehabilitate, enforce order, or deter a person or persons from committing the same crime(s) again. One of them that has struck many as a very positive program is boot camps for any offender including juvenile offenders. Boot camps are one variation of shock incarceration. Shock incarceration is a short period of incarceration followed by a sentence…

support the death penalty. His theory states that he is proportionality based, where you can choose the highest severity for a crime but never reaching the death penalty. This is where a ranking system is created, setting the most upper limit to life in prison avoiding a barbaric punishment. Nathanson believes that human dignity matters, we may punish people for their crimes but deprive them everything which is what the death penalty does (Nathanson, p.544). The other side to this argument is…

laws being adopted, more juvenile delinquents are being bound over into the adult court system and sent to adult institutions. Throughout the years studies that have been conducted have proven sending youth as young as fourteen years-old to adult prisons is not the answer; this action is creating higher recidivism rates, violent youths, as well as a greater chance to be victimized by older inmates and staff. First…

put on death row, death row is a prison block or section for prisoners who will be sentenced to stay in prison till death. Without parole or sometimes even trial, and just from reading Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson explaining how the courts and the justice system is illicit. Mr. Stevenson talks about the circumstance that have led to the teens that have been slandered throughout their lives. The teens reached out to him in letters throughout their time in prison. I can say from reading the book…