His trial only lasted 2 weeks and was found guilty and was sentenced to 957 years in prison. He served his time at Columbia Correctional Institute in Portage, Wisconsin. He was attacked twice in prison, the first time someone tried to cut his throat with a razor blade but it was unsuccessful and he escaped. The second time he was attacked by Christopher Scarver and beaten to death by a broomstick handle on November 28th, 1994. His father wrote a book called A Father’s Story and donated a portion of the proceeds to the victims’ families.
Poyck and Valdez were eventually arrested the same day. “In 1972, William Van Poyck, at age 17, was sentenced to life in prison” (Killing People In the Name of Teaching That Killing is Wrong) for armed robbery with a deadly weapon. He was originally sent to Starke, which is known as the toughest prison in the state, but in 1977 Poyck was sent to a place called The Rock for bad behavior. He escaped from The Rock by making a key to open a security door and then cutting through fences. A month later, after his escape he was caught.
Venezuela’s prison La Sabeneta is one of the worst prisons due to that they have one guard to every 150 inmates. Corruption and bribery is normal with the staff and 624 hurt and 196 murdered in 1995 shows the brutality of the prison when an inmate had a gun battle with the inmates. La Sante prison in France is well known for its high suicide rate with 124 suicides in just 1999. Some have even eaten rat poison to escape from living there. Many have become slaves while others only leave their cells for 4 hours a day.
In 1975 Ted was arrested in Utah but was released due to the little evidence, Two years later was convicted of kidnapping and escaped. Ted Bundy killed three people in Florida and was arrested but his parents bailed him out and he sold his car but police impounded it away from new owner. It was then when forensic evidence finally solved this case by finding three different hairs matching the three victims killed in Ted’s car and matched his teeth marks the a bite mark on one of the victims. He was then was sentenced to three death penalties in 1978 when Ted was recaptured and on January 24, 1989 at Railford prison in Starke, Florida Ted Bundy was executed in the electric chair. My opinion on this case was interesting yet disgusting but Ted Bundy was smart about how he attracted his victims.
Bulger suffered multiple skull fractures from blows to the head, and was sexually abused by the two older boys. After the beatings, they left Bulger’s lifeless body across the railway tracks so that his body would be cut in half. Police were able to pin Venables and Thompson because of video images that captured Bulger’s abduction from the mall. DNA testing matched the blood found on the boys’ shoes to Bulger. Thompson and Venables were arrested and controversially tried and convicted in an adult court.
Still others asserted that he made no advances at all, that he whistled habitually to control a speech defect. A Brutal Murder Roy Bryant considered his wife's honor tainted by the incident. Several nights after the episode, Bryant, his half brother J. W. Milam, and possibly other accomplices kidnapped Till from his relatives' home in the middle of the night. The two men beat him severely and, apparently enraged that he had a picture of a white woman in his wallet, shot Till and threw him in a nearby river. Several days later the body was found, and Bryant and Milam were charged with murder.
During the interrogation Mr. Dufresne states that on his way home to ‘sleep it off’, he threw his gun into the Royal River; the attorney states that after searching the river for three days the gun was never recovered. The evidence provided in the trial was enough for Mr. Dufresne to be sentenced to two consecutive life terms, one for each of his victims. While seeing Mr. Dufresne entering the prison, his innocence or guilt is still questionable. Mr. Dufresne’s innocence is restricted from the audience until the introduction of Tommy, an inmate at Shawshank. After serving a period of time there is a scene in the cafeteria where inmates are discussing what they are in for and each one says that they are innocent, except for Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, who says that he is the only guilty inmate in Shawshank.
Monster Journal Entry In Monster by Walter Dean Myers, has a unique style of writing Monster. Steve Harmon is 16 years old and is in jail and on trial for having a hold-up and shooting and killing the store clerk. The different kinds of writing that is in Monster are writing like a screenplay, stage direction, diary, first person and flashbacks. Myers includes a first person and a diary perspective. Harmon discusses his reaction in his journal to the reflection in the mirror, “When I look into the small rectangle, I see a face looking back at me but I don’t recognize it.
In more recent years, Pelican Bay State Prison located in Crescent City, California, has received national media attention on more than one occasion. This trend started back in February 24, 2000 when a prison riot between African American and Hispanic inmates erupted on a recreational yard. The result of this riot left an inmate dead, 19 others wounded, and a total of 89 manufactured weapons recovered (Wallace, Podger, & Van Derbeken, 2000). In 2011, Pelican Bay prisoners began a statewide prison hunger strike. This hunger strike was directly related to the 2000 riot followed by recurring violent attacks on inmates.
Green mile was about a 8-foot giant, John Coffey, who cries, is scared of the dark and has god given powers. He stumbles by two young girls in help, yet finds them too late for him to cure them and bring them to life. He then was sent on death row to the Louisiana state penitentiary, accused of killing the girls. The story takes place mostly on the “E-block”, the block where Paul worked. Paul worked along side with his fellow guard mates.