“Knowledge is Power” Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and also known as El-hakk Malik El-Shabazz, was a street hustler convicted of robbery in 1946. He spent six years in prison and used this time to enhance his education level simply by reading. After his release from prison, he became an influential leader, and member of the Nation of Islam. Malcolm X became a heroic advocate for the rights of blacks and has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history. After hitting rock bottom in 1946, at age 20, Malcolm x was sentenced to six years in prison for larceny and breaking and entering.
The youth wing, formed in 1940 was a more militant group with an aggressive policy. Its main members included Walter Sissulu and Oliver Tambo. In a dawn raid in December 1956, Mandela along with 156 other people were arrested and accused of high treason. The trial did not end until 1961 after the Sharpeville massacre; all the defendants were found not guilty. The events at Sharpeville made the South African government more intransigent towards the apartheid even with the world looking at South Africa.
Twenty miles west of Baghdad is where the atrocious prison Abu Ghraib is found. Consisting of nearly seven thousand prisoners and only four hundred and fifty guards, this place was notorious for its terrible conditions. Head of this prison was Army reserve brigadier general Janis Karpinki. Under Karpinki, seven American soldiers were caught and prosecuted
Shukhov is denied any treatment because his fever isn’t high enough to get him out of work for the day. Denied treatment and still feeling ill, Shukhov gets ready to go out for the days work. Before they can work, the prisoners are forced to strip down, in forty-below zero weather, to be searched for any contraband items. Upon being searched, one of the inmates, Buynovsky, was wearing an extra layer of clothing. For his punishment, Buynovsky was sentenced to ten days in solitary confinement.
In few years later he had to make an emergency trip back over seas and was arrested under false pretence of being a spy and stayed in prison for 3 months. When returning to New York Crevecoeur found his house burned, farm ravaged, children missing and his wife dead. Crevecoeur worked as a solider, farmer and a government official. Besides the well educated similarities the two come from two different types of lives. Crevecoeur seems to have had more life experience behind him.
The laws also affected Mandela. While on one of his many trips as part of his civil disobedience protests he was caught outside the country with out permission. He was put to trial and later jail. His arrest led to him being sentenced to life in jail. After this unfair sentence, it sparked anger into people who supported Mandela.
America’s Sagging Pants Prison attire has long been known to diminish and demoralize the prisoners. It is an embodiment of punishment. In 1815 black and white stripped prison attire from Newgate Prison was an icon symbol of being incarcerated. Since then prison garments have been made to serve as function over fashion. Not until the late 80’s and early 90’s did prison attire become a fashion statement, thus leading into the fashion trend of sagging pants.
The only exception to this was those who were convicted with certain 'benefit of clergy', the transportation statue of 1717, meaning anyone who were connected with the church could be convicted for up to seven years even with crimes that non-clergy members could get 14 years for. In 1776 the Americans declared independence which meant great disaster for Britain as they couldn't cope with the sudden ending of transportation to America which became a major cause in the prison reform movement. Britain turned to Australia as a back up and alternative "dumping ground" and claimed it in the name of the English crown. Convicts would be sent on the four to six month journey to Australia on hulk ships. Before its abolition, over 165,000 people were transported an average of 4,000 people a year.
It lasted 382 days. He and many other civil rights activists put in prison as "agitators," but their efforts were rewarded in 1956, when the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the segregation practices of the Alabama bus system were unconstitutional, and demanded that
Their father hardly ever came around. Then one day he and his new girlfriend called Child Protection Services on me. They removed the kids to investigate and couldn’t find anything. When they returned the kids to me I moved back to safety, at home with my dad. We stayed in the same house (where they were born and raised) until two thousand and nine.