After the Batista government fled the country, Castro and his government aligned with the Soviet Union. When the US stops its purchases of sugar, the Soviet Union agreed to purchase it and to sell weapons to them. It got worse when people were banned from traveling to and from Cuba. Also any Cubans that left Cuba were not allowed to go back to Cuba and they were not allowed to send money or gifts to any of their family in Cuba. It has been about 50 years since this embargo took effect and no changes to its policy in sight.
His son Kim Jong-un succeeded and has been running a strict dictatorship much like his father. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea also known as North Korea has been under much criticism for being one of the worse nations in the world when it comes to human rights. North Korea has been testing nuclear missiles for over a decade now. The United Nations have sent out stern warnings from all five vetoing countries but it does not seem to phase or even scare the Korean nation. “North Korea also conducted rocket launches in 2006 and 2009.
Bush. After 9/11, President Bush established that all alien detainees would be held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and be held without any rights pending trial. He felt that because Guantanamo is not formally a part of the United States and strictly held by lease then detention there didn’t entitle the detainees to rights that they would be entitled to within the United States. Lakhdar Boumediene was a naturalized citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina and was being held by the U.S. in Guantanamo Bay. He petitioned the Supreme Court that this was unlawful and On June 12, 2008 in a slim 5-4-majority vote, it was ruled that all prisoners being held on Guantanamo Bay had a right to Habeas Corpus under the Constitution because the base itself was considered sovereign territory.
Some 60 people have been prosecuted and more than 160 children have been identified as victims and rescued, officials said. At the sentencing hearing on Tuesday, Portway's attorney, Richard Sweeney, said his client was "sick" and should be punished, but added that he had only "immersed himself in a world of fantasy on the Internet" and never intended to carry out any plans to harm children. Portway, wearing a brown prison uniform, glasses and white sneakers, did not speak during the sentencing. He was sentenced to 320 months in prison, and will be deported to the UK after he completes his term. He was also ordered to pay $3,000 each to five unnamed victims whose images were found on his
Together these factors have dramatically altered the nature of day-today prison life and inmate culture. Today’s prison life is much better than past times. I think it’s barbaric that prisons used to torture their prisoners, and they had no say in anything. Although today’s prisoners still don’t have much of a say in what occurs inside prison, they know they won’t get tortured like prisoners in the past. I’ve always heard that during the Industrial Revolution, many prisoners were used as free labor, but I never realized how much money the prisons actually made from this kind of labor.
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The drug war also deeply undercuts the role of incarceration in dealing with people convicted of such serious crimes as child molesting, rape, kidnaping and homicide. There is no room in our prisons: 40 states are under court orders for overcrowding. Funds are not available to build prisons fast enough to provide the needed space. Violent criminals are being paroled early or are having their sentences chopped to make space for drug users and dealers. “ The drug war (excluding treatment and preventive education expenditures) costs about $9 billion at the federal level and about twice that on the state and local levels.
Immigrants obtain jobs that many Americans are too good to do such as lawn care, maintenance in the home or business, and farm work. Immigrants often get paid very little; they are very hard workers because they are usually very poor and come to America to make a better life for themselves and their families. The con’s of illegal immigrants is that they work off the books and do not contribute to social security or pay taxes. A majority of illegal immigrants rely on government assistance and this costs Americans a lot of money. New immigration reform laws have some good ways to gain control over illegal immigration; however, allowing more immigrants into the United States on top of the 11 million that are already here trying to obtain residency, is absurd.
Therefore they had no rights as citizens. In the years after the war they did gain some improvements and began to protest for more, but by 1955 this was not enough to make a difference. Black Americans were subjected to segregation. The ‘Jim Crow’ laws meant that they had to use separate diners, separate schools and separate transport. This was
Introduction Giving a glaze of attention towards prison populations today in countries such as Britain and America, it is not hard to see that most prisons got racial disproportionality where most of the prisoners are not ‘white’. A question that criminologists has been pondering on for the last decade where as if the racial disproportionality in prisons has to do with errors in the criminal justice. Another question criminologist has been debating about for the last decade is if ‘blacks’ do commit more crime than whites and if they do, has that got to do with the racial disproportionality in prisons. Some researchers claim that ‘blacks’ have a lower IQ than others which leads to the disproportionality. Other claims that it has to do with