Many have become slaves while others only leave their cells for 4 hours a day. For minor misbehaviour prisoners are sent to the punishment block or the ‘hole’ with no running water and many are left there for days. Carandiru Penitentiary in Brazil has everything from massacres, HIV prisoners to legalised torture. The 7500 inmates there, the majority have HIV but never entered being positive and most of the time when there is a surgery they forget the anaesthetics. Tadmor military prison in Syria still use the medieval methods of torture on the guilty and innocent, being dragged by a rope till dead or beaten to death by pipes.
Children are facing physical and emotional damage. They are missing their education. According to statistics reported by ABC News, 160,000 kids stay home from school every day because of fear of being bullied (Bullying Statistics, 2013). The worst consequence of bullying, by far, is suicide, now being referred to as “bullycide.” Children as young as nine years old are taking their own lives. So why do bullies bully?
To put it in different terms, if you compare the TV shows “Super Nanny” and “Scared Straight” one can see vast developmental differences. In “Super Nanny” the preferred disciplinary tool is a time out mat in the corner. In “Scared Straight” they lock unruly teens in prison with inmates to help them realize that if they continue on the path they are currently on, they will end up incarcerated one day. Now switch the two. Would an overnight stay in prison be the appropriate punishment for a six year old that bites his brother?
Should Juveniles Be Charge As Adult In Criminal Cases? “Draft paper” Delvitta, Reid Post University CSS101.58: Learn Across Lifespan 10/3/12 Instructor: Erna, Krieger In my draft paper about should children be charge as an adult in criminal cases. To me it depends on the case and the ages of the child have done. Today around the world there are many children going to jail at the age of 12 to 14 .I have seen child charge as adult at the age of 12, and still in jail doing time for killing someone he didn’t like in school and he shoot him in the face. To me the children of today don’t care if they kill someone and they would not go to jail because their age.
Out of sight and thus out of mind of many western consumers, these children have been ignored and their exploitation continues. This paper will outline the hardships faced by millions of children across the world as they attempt to make a living at ages as young as five years old. It will present the argument supporting sweatshops and easily refute all claims that appear to make child exploitation acceptable. A child forced into such dangerous labor conditions is immoral and should not be accepted by any society. In order for change to occur, action must be taken on part of the consumers, corporations, and political parties of countries involved.
This is not right, or rational that people would risk so much in order to come to the United States, to work a job that most American citizens will not work. Yet we are hateful and mean, protesting, these people rights to make a living and support their families, if the work wasn’t here they would not come. Do you think the Native Americans like what happened to them, when the first generation immigrated to American, many Native Americans are still suffering the effect of the colonization of America. Published in the Huffington post a video “Native American Man Tells Anti-Illegal Immigration Protesters Who 'The Real Illegal Immigrants Are’ it goes on to say that a Native American man tells protesters “We didn’t invite none of you here. We’re the only Native Americans here.”(Ramos Z 2013) Are the Americans that don’t support open borders scared, because they don’t want what happened to the Native Americans,
The staff was not comprised of employees who had a lot of experience working in the prison system, so they were not familiar with the types of problems that can and often arises in the corrections department. The prison has a history of employees quitting soon after being hired because they find working in the prison system is not a job they want to perform long term. Finding people who are willing to work in the system for low pay and great hazards is a hard task for the officials of the department of corrections, and staffing issues continue to play a major part in the problems having qualified individuals at the right
During a grueling two hour-long interrogation, Miranda allegedly confessed to these crimes (McBride, 2006). Only finishing school up until the ninth grade, Ernesto wasn’t considered a very educated man. His lack of education, paired with the fact that he had a history of mental instability, made a confession from Miranda easily obtainable without having council present to represent him. With his recorded confession, the prosecution was able to convict Miranda of rape and kidnapping, thus sentencing him to 20 to 30 years in prison (McBride, 2006). After the Arizona Supreme Court threw out his appeal, Miranda appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
There are 43,000 inmates in prison for sexual offenses, while each year in this country over 510,000 children are victims of sexual assault. The statistics does not convey the severity of the situation. Each year 510,000 children have their childhoods destroyed, and are faced with dealing with sexual assault for their entire lives. Sadly, many of those assaults are perpetrated by people who have already been through the correctional system, only to victimize again. Sex offenders, as a class of criminals, are nine times more likely to repeat their crimes.
The current structure of this system is failing terribly. To take people, strip them of their possessions and privacy, expose them to violence on a daily basis, restrict their quality of life to a five by seven-foot cell, and deprive them of any meaning to live. This scenario is a standard form of punishment for violent offenders, although not suitable for nonviolent offenders. Today, almost 70% of all prisoners are serving time for nonviolent offenses. U.S. States are spending an average of a hundred million dollars per year on new prisons and all U.S. taxpayers front the bill for a system that is not working.