It also backs up my other sources with the same research results; by removing the sentencing discretion of judges, and replacing it with mandatory jail sentences, we are sending more offenders to prison instead of programs designed to rehabilitate. Information in this article also supports my argument that mandatory laws violate the Constitution. Taking power away from judges is a violation of the 10th amendment “separation of powers.” As a result, our prison population has quadrupled and is filled with the wrong people. Mandatory sentencing applies so broadly that they sweep minor criminals and drug users along with the major ones, “drug kingpins,” who are the real targets of the statutes. Bender, David L. “America’s Prisons Opposing Viewpoints”4thed.Minnesota.
The separation of government form people takes place gradually and so intensely. Each step is disguised as a temporary measure or associated with patriotic allegiance, or with real social purpose. The Nazis used crises and reforms are to occupy the people that they can not see the slow motion of the government growing. The pride of or country, with more and more bearing down from authority figures is surely a bad sign of things yet to come. Theres no way of arresting a innocent person and the only power government has on society is to crack down criminals.
The dehumanization of another group allows unthinkable crimes to be committed; neither party is benefited by this separation. The Rational Optimist explains the gains of working together while, The Grapes of Wrath and District 9 show us that the dehumanization of others only hinders progress and hurts those involved. This human defense mechanism against the unknown is born from fear and breeds evil. We must turn away from it, reap the benefits of working together, and allow progress to unfold before
Troy Unger 6 Oct. 2010 Capital Punishment Prisons in the United States have some major flaws. The prison system is not adequate in keeping the crime rate low. The United States prisons system needs a drastic overhaul very soon; it needs to revert back in time and stop giving prisoners modern conveniences. The prison system also needs to hand out harsher punishment to inmates and other felons alike. Capital punishment should be a tool used on many serious felons instead of life in jail.
Summary and Response In Peter Moskos’s “In Lieu of Prison, Bring Back the Lash”, he argues that prisons are an ineffective and expensive form of punishment and suggests corporal punishment be used as an alternative. Moskos points out that prisons are severely overcrowded and come at an astronomical cost. He then gives a quick history of the prison system, stating it was created as a more humane option to replace corporal punishment, which was viewed negatively in our new country. Moskos states prisons were intended to rehabilitate criminals much in the way hospitals heal the physically or mentally ill. The author describes prisons as internment camps used for practically free labor and says while some criminals need to be incarcerated, most do not.
In the society portrayed in the novel, a bizarre hybrid of utilitarianism and hedonism is essentially enforced by the global state. The populace is controlled through drugs and conditioning to reject aspects of life such as communion, individuality and reproduction. With these rejections, an illusionary happiness is formed throughout the society as issues like the concern of starting a family, spending time to oneself and the fear of death disappear from the society. Increases in cloning technology allow workers to be bred for their jobs, eliminating the concept of competition and the necessity of ensuring one has a family. Psychotherapy from childhood on instills the idea in the populace that happiness comes from the society benefiting.
“Hostility breeds violence, and violence breeds fear” (Hallian, 2005, p.10) When prisons take away basic human rights, they begin to see chaos and violence and where in that is it making prisoners better or rehabilitated. Society looks at prisoners as these people who are not worthy of rights in any form, they have committed crimes against society and in that should be punished accordingly. Prisoners are punished accordingly once they become incarcerated, but that does not mean that they should be stripped of the rights, regardless of the crime they committed. Each individual is a human being and in that deserves to be protected under the Constitution. The Government is the only entity that can change what is happening in our prisons today.
Limited education is layed out through the government’s manipulation of the past, newspeak which is the government limiting language, and mob physcology. Newspeak is the new way people speak in the country, it is condensing vocabulary to the most limited words possible. The point of Newspeak was to “limit human thought” in order to keep the citizens unable to express thoughts that the goverement did not want them to think, which illustrates the pyscological power of a goverement in society. Another example of the nation limited education is mob physcology, when everyone accepts everything they are told it is scary to become an indivisual and think for yourself in fear of what others will do to you or think. The goverement also alters the past immensely in the
David Merino Period 5 1984: Disintegration of Humanity 6/16/11 Living in a world with freedom of expression, freedom of speech; basically, being free to doing anything can be seen as a blessing, but to some people, the lack of power and control over others is a disastrous way of living and it must be changed and adjusted. In the eyes of Big Brother and the System, the world and its inhabitants must be kept under strict rules and laws, and if broken, the criminals must be annihilated. These laws and consequences are what keep the “people” in 1984 from actually living as human beings. Two big components of humanity are the importance of linguistics and language, and our media, but when tampering with these components, which is the exactly what the System did, human life starts to disintegrate.
Conflict can occur when there is an imbalance of power, causing certain individuals to rise up against this oppression to try and shift the disparity of power. In V for Vendetta, Moore explores this idea through the character of V, who represents individuality and anarchism in a society that is controlled by a fascist, oppressive government. The sombre use of pallet at the beginning of the graphic novel is a reflection of the lack of individuality in this society, as oppression by the government has prevented self-expression and the formation of one’s own opinion. The illustration of a street camera with the sign ‘FOR YOUR PROTECTION’ underneath, as well as the implementation of a curfew and the use of speakers for public propaganda broadcasts, suggests a more sinister motive behind these actions and demonstrates how there can be no freedom of expression in a society where your every move is monitored. There is no ‘talk of freedom…or individual liberty’ in a totalitarian society that rules by force.