Essays on Jail

Short and Long-Term Policies: Prisoner Overcrowding 3

Prison Overcrowding Reduction Policy Stakeholders 4 Prison Overcrowding Reduction: Short-Term Goals and Solutions 5 Prison Overcrowding Reduction: Long-Term Goals and Solutions 8 Creation of Jail Capacity Management Boards and Oversight Committees .8 Alternatives to Incarceration .9 Private For-Profit Prisons 11 Conclusion 12

References .13

Short and Long-Term Policies:Prisoner Overcrowding Overcrowding in jails and prisons is a complex problem that is difficult but imperative for the nation to solve. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world; while countries similar to the U.S. have an average rate of 100 prisoners per 100, ...

Research about Tent City Jail Arizona

Tent City Arizona

The Tent City Jail in Arizona is known to be one of the toughest jail facilities in the United States. It was established in 1993 with a total population of 2,000 inmates and more are coming in everyday. This facility is located in Phoenix Arizona and was inspired by the elected Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The rational behind setting up tents as a jail facility came up to Sheriff Arpaio because of the staggering cost of constructing another facility as an extension of Maricopa County jail in order to meet the ever growing population of inmates in Maricopa. ...

Introduction

- Many of the individuals who commit crime are a first time offender, and many scholars argue that jail terms are not appropriate for such individuals in modern society. - Thesis: The society believes that prisons protect them from criminals, and the goal of the criminal justice system is to protect law-abiding citizens from crime, especially crimes of violence and security of lives and property.

Body

- The proponents of jail terms argue that one of the reasons for administering punishments such as jail terms is to discourage others from committing similar offenses and reduction of crime. - The ...

Introduction

The current article “Criminal Justice Involvement, Behavioural Health Service Use, and Costs of Forensic Assertive Community Treatment: A Randomized Trial” by Cusack et al. (2010) offers critical insights on the topic of mental illness amongst the jailed populations. Worth noting is the fact that jail detention tends to enhance the occurrence of mental illness. As such, a significant proportion of the jailed populations experience a wider array of mental illnesses. This poses an immense challenge in that reinstating people with mental illness to society life after jail detention is apprehensive. Notably, the challenges are a reflection of challenges faced by an individual ...

A consent decree project was proposed by attorneys of a fictional jail named Adelphi County Jail in Maryland in the United States. This proposed consent decree was instigated by a particular situation that occurred at the jail involving two of the inmates where some prison officers accessed the inmate’s belongings on suspicion of possession of contrabands. This report analyzes the consent decree project in the context of the situation that occurred leading to the decree. This report seeks to address the extent to which this situation, the policy and procedure directive of the jail and the appellate court decision on ...

Should prisoners be given free education?

The history of American prison can be traced back to 1791. This is the year when the first true American prison, Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia was established (Coley & Barton, 2006) The US prisons were established to achieve three main objectives: to promote public security, to enhance prisoner’s reformation and to ensure humanity of the prisoners. Based on the last two objectives, many prisons started offering basic education in the early 1880s. However, it is until the early 1960s when the US prisons started offering post secondary education to the inmates (Coley & Barton, 2006). The federal governments provided ...

Introduction

As we all well know, the jails are becoming more and more crowded with each passing month, and it has gotten to the point where putting a criminal in jail is not an option anymore. Ultimately, judges as well as other officials are aware of the limited capacity of the jails not just in their jurisdiction, but in others outside of their own as well. Some criminals or even first time offenders feel relieved at the fact that they can get away with murder, and no one can stop them. If they are stopped then they are instead let go, ...

Pedophilia as a Mental Disorder: Why Pedophiles are not Criminals

A pedophile can be described as an adult person who gets sexually attracted to young people. Pedophiles exhibit behaviors which deviate from what the society expects-especially on sexual behavior. According to medical diagnosis, pedophilia is a psychiatric disorder in which people who are 16 years of age (and above) have exclusive or primary sexual interest in prepubescent young ones; mostly children of 13 years of age and below. For the attraction to be diagnosed as pedophilia, the prepubescent child must be younger than the adolescent by at least five years (Blaney & Millon, 2009). Although many people view pedophiles as ...

- The extent to which. the Proposed Consent Decree squarely addresses the situation, the policy and procedure, directive, and the appellate court decision

Consent decree is the resolving of a lawsuit where an individual or a corporation reaches a resolution to take specific actions without admission of guilt for the occurrence that resulted to the lawsuit. This settlement is contained in a court order as the court instructs relief against the defendant and comes to a decision to the maintenance of jurisdiction against the case to ensure the settlement is followed (Hensley et al, 2006, pg. 389). This case involves Plaintiffs Jack Jones and ...

In the world today, there are people that have the desire to live according to society’s rules so as to keep from being the odd person out, and that desire is even stronger today than it was 25 years ago. People either scramble into groups or are put into them because of how the world views them or how they grew up, and both have a critical impact on how a person views the world or the people around them. There are also other evils in the world or about society that makes people yearn to be loved, ...

Criminal Law

A professional, working with criminals in a jail or prison must be guarded against contingencies that arise suddenly. As jails and prisons house criminals with varying criminal records, it is best to expect the unexpected. Normally, a professional review a prisoner’s activity log, any or all disciplinary actions taken against him or her, check their grievances, and other reports of that person in jail. It is important that any contingency that arise during their visit to a cell or criminal is addressed and corrected as soon as possible, to prevent it from growing out of proportion. As a professional working in a jail or ...

Chapter 6: Inmate wages

Question 1(a): Should you include jail training on your resume? I would consider my interests first and leave out my jail training experience from my résumé. Many might consider this selfishness. However, I would argue that the mistake that landed me in jail was in no way connected to my ability to do the upholstery job. b) Does the nature of the “mistake” influence the response in the question 1(a) ethically? The nature of the mistake does influence the consideration of whether I should acknowledge my jail training on my résumé. If the mistake ...

The "Letter from Birmingham Jail” was written by martin Luther King Jr., one of greatest leaders of civil rights in the United States of America. This was an open letter that was written on 16th April 1963 by the King from Birmingham jail. This paper intends to discuss the letter from Birmingham jail. Martin Luther king Jr. was arrested and sent to Birmingham jail while participating in Birmingham campaign that was against racial discrimination and racism in American society. King, in jail, came to know about “A call for unity” that was a proclamation by eight white clergymen of ...

Policy and procedure directives are meant to ensure that all actions taken in every institution of the criminal justice system abides not only to the federal constitution, but also to ethics and human rights. Therefore, when policies and procedures are being drafted, their main foundation is the constitution. However, as history has shown, things are not always direct in the criminal justice system. An action taken in criminal justice system such a jail and that seemingly abides by the constitution may later be interpreted as an infringement on the constitutional right of the defendant. Such is the case of Carter ...

The Appalachian Mountains can be seen to be a barrier and divide between developed and rural America. The people who live in the region are certainly steeped in past rural traditions and are stuck in their lot with not much hope for improvement. Since the settlements and towns here are cut off from the regional towns and cities in West Virginia such as Wheeling and Charleston, they are also in a sense detached from reality. In the short documentary, The Hollow we can observe this sense of detachment and as such the society here is deviant from the norms which we ...

Abstract Reports from the U.S. Justice Department, in 2003 revealed that approximately 10.4 percent of African American men between age 25 to 29 were incarcerated, in comparison to 2.4 percent of Hispanic men and 1.2 percent of Non-Hispanic white men (US Justice Department, 2003).This has created some measure of concern within the African Diaspora in and out of United States of America. Why are Black men in this age group so much more likely to be in jail than people of White or Latino descent? (US Justice Department, 2003).What are the comparative incidences of criminal prosecution, ...

Objective responsibilities of the Captain at County Jail

The objective responsibilities of a jail captain are many and varied, for instance; the captain coordinates all the activities of various sections of the jail department to ensure that all work and projects performed properly by various personnel. Thus, achieve the common set goals of the of jail department. In addition, the captain provides information to the subordinates and the public to facilitate a working environment that is free from violence and insecurity. He must be respectful to the jail commander and also has to adhere to the policies and procedures governing jail department as the county jails are more centered ...

Introduction

America has an elaborate correction system that has existed for many years. It has not been established when the first correction facility (prison/jail) came into existence in America, but historians and other scholars have suggested that it was established in 1700s. Since its establishment, the American’s correction system has undergone tremendous transformation and changes in terms of reforms to enhance its operations, efficiency, and functions with the intention to curb crime, punish criminal offenders, and maintain status quo, and social order. Before the establishment of prisons and modern correction facilities, the criminal justice system employed punitive and cruel ...

Derek is a leader of a Skin-Heads’ gang and he went to jail after killing a black man that was trying to rob his property. The time of imprisonment is a long and a painful period, which changes Derek and directs him onto the way of redemption. However, when he comes back home he faces the most difficult task: he has to save his brother, Danny, who grew up following the footsteps of his elder brother by embracing the ideology of Nazism and racism.

The main characters of “American History X” are two brothers. The eldest one is Derek; he is a Nazi-skin and he ...

Martin Luther King was born on 15th of January in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929. He is a phenomenon man who has made life changing contributions to America by voicing his, social, political, and racial views about the injustices committed to the people with color. He was faced with opposition, but being a strong man, he was able to conquer the opposition, and fight for the rights of the blacks. Martin Luther had many leadership qualities that helped him push his agenda of justice, and equality for all forward. He was a passionate and fascinating leader that changed the lives of many millions around ...

Audience: Drivers who believe that there should be lenient sentencing for first time offenders, or who are otherwise against mandatory confinement laws. Message: We should carefully consider, and set legal statutes based on the benefits of implementing a mandatory jail sentence of a minimum of two weeks for all drunk driving offenders. Purpose: To get people to see that there are advantages to requiring a minimum 2 week jail sentence on all drivers arrested for DUI.

The question of how best to both punish and rehabilitate drunk driving offenders has been a topic of serious debate for more than 30 years. ...

(Course/Major) (School/University)

Incarceration or Intervention: Costs and Benefits

In the work of leading global research organizations RTI International, by sending substance abusers to community-based programs rather than hauling these people to jail, the United States criminal justice system stands to save billions of dollars, in a study of the RTI International and Temple University. In the study of the groups, almost one half of the prisoners in the Federal and state prison system are incarcerated for drug abuse or substance addicts. However, even with the high rate of drug and substance abusers in the prison, it is estimated that only one out of ten get ...

Introduction

Every criminal justice system in the world is characterized by policy and procedure directives that ensures that all the actions and processes in this system are within the constitutional and legal confines. The policy and procedure are enacted to ensure that the constitutional rights of stakeholders are not infringed upon when these individuals are exposed to a particular criminal justice process. Unfortunately, there arises some situations in the course of disseminating justice where some actions cause massive legal disagreements. An individual who has been subjected to a particular process may claim that the process was unconstitutional or that his rights were ...

The use of force is Prerogative of law enforcement officials. Sometimes using force becomes necessary but it should not be exercised unnecessarily or exceed the limit. Authorities, in no case, should exercise excessive force and doing so is a criminal offence. Law enforcement authorities though do not hesitate from using excessive force and the same was evident from the incidents that took place in Los Angeles County where numerous prisoners were beaten severely by deputy of sheriff department. Videos show how inmates were screaming while and after beaten up by deputy of sheriff department and his men. They were ...

I Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail to emphasize his promotion of nonviolently resisting racism. King, Jr. noted that people may break laws they deem as unjust as part of their moral responsibilities. The publication of Letter from Birmingham Jail initially experienced delays, but eventually became one of the most widely published texts that enjoyed great popularity among civil rights movement supporters in the United States (US) during the 1960s (King Jr.). Various nonviolent protests against racism happened in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, hence known collectively as the Birmingham Campaign. The Alabama Christian Movement ...

The media has put a lot of emphasis on the criminal systems in the United States. There are different views regarding the performance of correctional facilities in delivering their basic purpose of correcting the behavior of criminals. In America jails are viewed as correctional facilities that serve the purpose of correcting the jailed criminals. The courts have the mandate of sentencing an accused criminal if proved guilty to a jail term depending on the crime committed. As much as there is a need to isolate the criminals from other members of the society, jails are viewed to be correctional facilities. At the ...

Introduction

Justice is essentially a concept of moral aptness based on rationality, ethics, religion, natural law, fairness and equity, as well as administration of law, taking into consideration the inborn and inalienable rights of all the citizens and human beings. Justice as a virtue refers to a trait of a person. The understandings of the concept of justice differ in each culture, since cultures are normally dependent upon a certain shared history, religion, or mythology. The ethics of each culture create values that influence notion of justice. On the other hand, civil disobedience is actually the active, declared refusal to obey certain demands, laws, ...

Letter from a Birmingham jail is an open letter that was written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 16 1963. Dr. Luther wrote the letter in defence of nonviolent resistance to racism (Ali-Dinar). The letter became an instant favourite with the American Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960 immediately it was published. Dr. King argued that people have a moral responsibility to defy and break laws that are unjust. Dr. King wrote the letter from a jail in Birmingham, Alabama. He had been arrested on April 12 1963 and placed in the jail for announcing that he and ...

Part A: Media Report Analysis

a) Areas of Law Evident in the Media Report There are various legal issues arising in the chosen media report. The chosen Media Report shows reported presented to the court regarding Boat crash driver who was fishtailing.

Tort Law

In the present media report, Tort Law was violated because the court had to apply civil proceedings in order to relief Ms Campbell and Ms Kerr who had suffered harm from the wrongful acts of Mr. Woollard. Woollard wrongfully went behind the wheel while he was drunk and this caused over speeding and eventual accident (Kate, 2012). In the current case, Ms ...

Comparing Punishment Theories

The four-day Attica prison uprising was known to be one of the bloodiest in American history. From September 9th to 13, 1971 inmates of Attica correctional facility took control of the prison and made several demands including a change on how prison guards should be treating the inmates. The event resulted to 39 deaths in a 15-minute assault after Nelson Rockefeller has ordered the State police to take over the situation (Kaba, 2011, p.5). This uprising is believed to be caused by the stories of abuse, torture and brutality among inmates by the prison guards. The effects of this incident became ...

There are a number of problems in jails and the biggest problem is that the jails are overcrowded. Another major problem is related to health of prisoners and lack of medical facilities and services in jail. Violence inside the jail is one more problem and there are a number of instances when prisoners get badly injured and in some cases they are also dead. The reasons behind such violence are many but lack of security personnel encourage the prisoners to involve in violent incidents. A survey report was conducted by bureau of justice that more than one third of prisoners ...

Should Criminals Be Punished With Lengthy Jail Terms Or Re-educated And Rehabilitated Using Community Service Programs For Instance, Before Being Reintroduced to Society?

Public opinion concerning criminals and punitive actions has always been one of the most disputable, arguable and ambiguous issues. At the time when some groups of people speak about the necessity of lengthy jail terms, the others believe in rehabilitation and effectiveness of treatment. In my opinion, if we want to achieve positive results, eradicate evil and prevent future crimes, incarceration should be viewed as a necessary and an inevitable punitive action.

In terms of this paper, ...

The founding fathers of this nation pieced together Constitutional guarantees for the citizens of the land to protect them from anarchy and tyranny. They had just overthrown the yoke of the most vilianous colonial regime in Great Britain. They were also determined that no American citizen should ever be subject to such tyranny especially in the name of the law. Hence, we have our Constitutional Amendments. The Fifth Amendment allows a citizen not to testify in court if the information would be self-incriminating. The Sixth Amendment allows citizens to the right to have their day in court. They are entitled ...

Introduction: Is there a problem in the Corrections system when it comes to imprisonment of the elderly?

The problem of mass incarceration of elderly citizens has become a growing problem for the U.S. Corrections System in recent years. This problem has been attributed to the financial deficiency and the after-effects of recidivism by offenders who spent over 15 to 20 years in prison. The social security and pensions allowed by the U.S. State and Federal Governments has provided for the needs of the elderly until the years of recession that took the nation by storm in the last decade. The cost of commodities has increased astronomically and with no stable medical facilities, the elderly in our nation ...

Introduction

Being a brigadier general, a lot of interest surrounded his case. People were curious on how the court would handle a case against the former U.S commander in Afghanistan. He was facing charges of sodomy, adultery; general social misconduct to mention the least. Jeffrey Sinclair was required (by the court) to pay $20,000 and an additional $4,157 as restitution fee. All this happened amidst constant concerns being raised by the public on how well (or otherwise) the military performs in as far as addressing harassment targeting women and sex crimes are concerned (Zoroya, 2014).

Ethical issue

Brigadier general Jeffrey Sinclair is a high ...

For many years Socrates was an adorable teacher and a well-known philosopher in Athens. However, one of his speeches had an unexpected result on his career and life. At the age of nearly seventy years Socrates was sent to the prison by a court jury of 501 Athens’ citizens. He was accused in atheism, which was mentioned in one of his speeches. At that time the punishment for such a crime was an execution to death. So, Socrates was sent to the jail to wait for his death. While the philosopher was in the prison at the small Aegean island of ...

Question One

Prior to the adoption of the prison system, jails were used for temporary detention, corporal punishment and imposition of fines. Capital crimes were punishable through public torture, humiliation, embarrassment, flogging, branding and mutilation. These forms of punishment draw from puritan punishment practices, which encouraged public shaming of wayward sheep. This is not unlike Arpaio’s use of perp walking, pink underwear and chain gangs for inmates serving sentences of up to a month to humiliate and use them to serve as an example to mothers and children that see them on the highway to avoid crime. Specifically, chain gangs hack ...

DEFINING DETERMINATE SENTENCING

Determinate sentencing is a when one is incarcerated for a definite length of time, i.e. five years or more. The jail time is fixed and cannot be altered by any parole board or agency. An example is when one is entitled to jail time of one-year. The prisoner will serve in the prison walls for one whole year. If the prisoner behaves well, he or she is given sometimes off as a token of appreciation. The maximum time for a determinate sentence is four years. Above that it becomes an indeterminate sentence. Judges are responsible for determining the period the prisoner will ...

THE TRAMP VERSUS JOSEPH K.

The protagonist in Charlie Chaplin’s tramp is known more famously as the tramp. The protagonist in Kafka’s the trial is known as joseph k. Being protagonists these two characters have a lot in common. There are certain tributes and clichés attributed to protagonists in almost all literary works. These characteristics and attributes are meant to make the protagonist easily identifiable by the audience. These characteristics are also meant to endear the protagonist to the audience. Despite being both protagonists joseph k and the tramp are very different in terms of their characteristics and individual traits. The following ...

Individuals on probation or parole find themselves in a rather peculiar situation for even though they are no longer in prison they are nevertheless considered to be still in jail. When a person is released from jail and placed on probation or parole, they are given a manual detailing all the conditions for their probation or parole. The parole officer can then add or eliminate some of these conditions. These must be in writing. Part of the requirements for probation or parole is that the parolee must agree to an absolute waiver of the Fourth Amendment rights, which demands that ...

Part 1

Prison suicide is recognized as a serious yet underrated problem. In the United States, suicide is two times more common among prison inmates than in the general population (Arnaut, 2010). It is estimated that 200 prison suicides happen every year in the US (Suto & Arnaut, 2010). It is the third leading cause of deaths in the U.S. prisons after natural causes and AIDS (Metzner, 2002). The suicide rate in U.S. federal prisons is lower than the nationwide average (Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2012).

According to White, Schimmel & Frickey (2002), the prison suicide rate is often compared with the ...

Recent news sources have been reporting on the latest Charles Manson parole hearing. Details of the parole hearing, the unusual friendship between Debra Tate and Barbara Hoyt and the original story from 1969 have been making headlines. In the past, a number of books and movies have been made on the subject. Perhaps most notable among them were the book “Helter Skelter” by prosecutor, Attorney Vincent Bugliosi about the murders and the 1976 film it inspired. Manson is one of the most notorious serial murders in the annals of crime and insanity. His life history shows that he suffered neglect ...

Corrections officers play a huge role in the criminal justice system of a country. They maintain order in prisons or rehabilitative institutions in order to keep the general public safe from dangerous criminals. Their main responsibility is to maintain peace and order in prison cells while ensuring everyone observes and follows established regulations and procedures. In other parts of the world, they are also called detention officers and prison officers. Correction officers take full control and responsibility of inmates' security and well-being while doing jail time apart from performing administrative tasks in the institution.

A correctional officer's function is important ...

Introduction

This paper is going to describe one of the most popular games in the world – “Monopoly”. The game was founded in United Stated, created by Parker Brothers. It gained its popularity in 20th century, and became one of the most played games in the world. The major idea behind this game is to build a monopoly (to become the only owner of the businesses) and become the most successful and powerful businessman in the game. Moreover, the main task of the player is to lead other players to the bankruptcy. However, the most fascinating merit of this game is that ...

A society can’t live without law because it imposes rules that make people in order. If somebody breaks a law, then there is a place that is intended for him or her – jail. America is renowned as the land of the free because of its laws that govern people in order. However, justice and mercy are sometimes not working in harmony. Some captive prisoners are actually innocent and some people of lesser assaults are still on the streets because of the use of money. However, the numbers of prisoners in the United States still reach in million. Government is allocating ...

Analysis of “Letter from Birmingham Jail” using “Apology” and “Crito”

The works of Martin Luther King and Socrates show the ideologies of both men in their defense against persecutions made by their governments. In a bid to defend their actions, both authors present their arguments with respect to their particular surroundings. Consequently, as each seeks a form of liberty, there are some likeness, and in some instances disparities, between records of their arguments. In fact, at one point, King likens his condition and arguments to those made by the Greek philosopher. According to King, Socrates urges the Greek society to rise from a “the bondage of myths and half-truths” (2). King called ...

For the past recent years, there has been domination of the Spanish public sphere by intense debates concerning historical memory and the restoration of the past, centered on the years of the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975) and the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and the conversion to democracy during the instantaneous post-Franco period. The early years following the new regime brought a silencing of the past injustices in order to simplify the nonviolent transition to democracy with commentators contending that "political absolution" got to be mistaken for "recorded amnesia" for the sake of national compromise. As an outcome, the stories of Republican ...

Capture and control; this is the current system of policing in the country. Instead of giving attention to improving options of providing rehabilitation options for the incarcerated inmates, the police office is more concerned about catching more to put behind the bars. As a result, the prison population continues to increase and the need for expanding jail facilities become a great problem not only for the administration but for the whole community as well. Supporting the needs of these incarcerated inmates post distinct problems when it comes to managing the budget allotted for the support of the justice systems imposed in ...

Prisons in the United States are classified as follows:

The first prison is the minimum and medium security. In the medium security prisons, prisoners tend to sleep in the dormitories with beds and lockers. This group also contain communal toilets and showers. Prisoners in the minimum security prisons are perceived to cause little physical risks to the public, therefore, are strictly supervised by correctional officers. Close security prisons refer to the prisons where prisoners are kept in the one or two person cells. The cells are often operated from the remote control station. The walls are double fenced. Each cell has its own toilet and sink. ...

Write an essay that considers the criminal process from arrest through sentencing and appeal. Identify and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses inherent in the process along each step in the process. In your evaluation, discuss how these weaknesses might be corrected. What factors push against their correction? Also, assess how factors external to the criminal justice system such as budgetary and political realities impact the identified strengths and weaknesses.

Introduction

Criminal process known otherwise as criminal procedure is characterized by three phase of pre-trial, during trial and after trial. Most often criminal process is set in motion upon arrest of ...

Balancing Values

Attitude Towards Incarceration Introduction Law stipulates specific punishment guidelines to be applied on offenders; the paradigm shift in incarceration and the public’s attitude towards the subject is a major an issue that the justice system and the public are struggling to resolve. One of issues arising from the growing number of incarcerated individuals is the ability of the state is the cost of operating correctional facilities considering budget cuts and shortfalls. The public on the other hand is skeptical on the matters of keeping the offenders locked away to sustain public safety while thinking about where their ...

America is a diverse country with different colored people scatter all over different states. It has a long history of colonialism and cultural evolution. When thinking of terms like “colored” or “race”, our first mind may often come with African Americans. Perhaps the civil war or the civil right movement has marked a huge monument in the American history, it has ended the injustice and cruel treatment of people living in the same country who supposed to be united. The slavery and the segregation were abolished; the hanging trees and violence were all over. However, racism still exists through stereotype causing by ...

“Letter from Birmingham Jail” is a famous open letter written by Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1963. The primary point of the letter was to respond to the “Call for Unity” that white members of the church created in Alabama a few days earlier. In it, they stated that they were aware of the injustices that were present in society, but that the legal system was the place to fight that battle instead of taking it outside in the streets, against police and the rest of society. King was opposed to this, as he felt that everyone had a part to play ...

Of the over 218000 inmates in prisons across the United States, almost half are in for drug-related offences according to McLaughlin (2012). The state of California has some of the strictest laws on drug offenses; though the laws have succeeded in taking the offenders off the streets, it has led to overcrowding in prison facilities. Drug offenses recognized in California include; possession, sale, trafficking and production. Most of the facilities across the state have not been able to handle this increase in prisoners due to their low capacity levels. This threatens the lives of prison guards and prisoners in ...

Introduction

Martin Luther King was a Ph.D. in theology who had led the civil rights movement in the South since 1955. He referred to the founding documents and principles of the United States that promised liberty and equality for all, and noted that the country had failed to fulfill these in practice, especially because blacks had suffered centuries of slavery and segregation. His main concern was to secure basic citizenship and voting rights for blacks, and his speaking style was far more like that of a preacher and prophet. A century after slavery was abolished, blacks still faced segregation, discrimination and lack ...

Compare and Contrast in Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”

And

Thoreau and King were two famous writers and speakers who lothe injustice. They were not content to wait around for the conditions of the Negroes to change, theybelieved in action and both ended up in jail defending their cause. King’s “Letter From Burmingham Jail,” and Thoreau’ “Civil Disobedience,” clarifing their stance are alike in many ways and differ in few.

Martin Luther King Jr. was first introduced to Thoreau’s writings as a student; he was so fascinated with “Civil Disobedience” that he read it several times. More and more as he became active in the cause of ...

Is the Death Penalty a Deterrent?

The Death penalty is a verdict of death to a person by the legal system as a reprimand for committing an offensive crime. It is also referred to as capital punishment. These death penalties are executed to an individual to make sure that crimes are not committed later in life and also reducing the cost of punishing criminals. In the past, death penalties were so common in many nations but in the recent times very few countries practice it. Research shows that there are only fifty eight countries in the nation that are still practicing the death penalty while 96 nations have ...

Introduction

Alabama in the early 1960’s was indeed a state ‘sweltering with the heat of injustice’ as MLK himself said in the March on Washintgon some years after being incarcerated in Birmingham Jail. His letter from the same jail is full of impassioned appeals for non violence against the arbitrary and terrible treatment meted out to those protestors who were chiefly demonstrating for equal civil rights with whites. The author’s thesis is that justice should be there for all especially for negroes who have been sidelined for centuries. King says; “We have waited for more than 340 years ...

“Letter from Birmingham Jail” is a famous open letter written by Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1963. After he was arrested for participating a nonviolent protest in Birmingham, Alabama as part of the Civil Rights Movement, he wrote this letter to address several concerns he had about the concepts of racial segregation and the ideas of racism present in America at the time, particularly the South. It was published in various newspapers and magazines thereafter, and in his book Why We Can’t Wait.

The primary point of the letter was to respond to the “Call for Unity” that white members ...

Thesis Statement

Marijuana should be legalized because the legalization will bring economic benefits, such as tax revenue, creation of new jobs, and money which was used to fight marijuana smokers also can be saved.

Introduction

Marijuana is a drug that has been around for some time; it is a completely natural, typically unprocessed narcotic that has an incredible appeal to millions of people as a recreational drug. However, the prohibition of marijuana has left a giant missed opportunity for the American economy. Instead of taking advantage of this bumper crop, its illegal status has made otherwise normal, friendly people to seek out the drug on their ...