When Luke first arrives at the prison he converses with the warden who explains that Luke is a decorated veteran, yet left the military service just as he went in, as a Private. This may be a link to his problems with authority, another hint being the reason why Luke is in jail in the first place, the parking meter heads. He received the Silver Star, Bronze Star and, “a couple of Purple Hearts,” which may indicate that he is brave and probably humanitarian, but because he was never promoted, that his superiors, those who had the authority to promote him, did not react well to his achievements leading us to believe that Luke didn’t show “proper” respect. While in the prison the rules and
After being burnt by the truth of the world and gaining that new experience, he finally loses his innocent perspective, and views the world for what it truly is. Even though he is described as one eyed, representing his closed perspective, he is wiser than the other characters because of his knowledge of the night. The narrator runs into the owner of the boarding house as he leaves, “a one eyed taciturn fellow.” The owner is the second character shown in the story and is described as having one eye while the other one is half closed. When the narrator is leaving, he warns him by saying, “Hmmm – everything is closed. And no streetlights around here.
Terry speaking out in the cab shows his inability to “keep quiet” and his regret as becoming a “bum” through following the orders of Johnny Friendly and the mob. While charley only sees from a financial viewpoint “Do you know how much the piers are worth that we control through the local?” However Terry is more focused on fulfilling his dream, something which no amount of money can reclaim, his sense of dignity and respect. This is evident when he quotes “I could’ve been a contender. I could have been somebody”. Terry’s speech alone in this scene shows his detachment from being ordered around and stuck in a cage like a “pigeon”, deaf and dumb to speaking out and attempting to redeem his sense of dignity and power to become a
Similarly to Tom Brennan, this leads him to face immense psychological barriers such as schizophrenia, fear and antisocialism, which accordingly breeds his hatred and hinders his transition to adapt to his new world. The high angle shot belittles him within his dark prison cell, and the panorama shot of the penitentiary evokes his immense suffering and the loss of his sense of identity. Additionally, the nondiegetic crescendo of adrenaline-inducing instrumentals creates a chaotic atmosphere which effectively exudes the inner agonies of a broken man who is left with nothing. In such ways, the initial stages of the film evince the protagonist’s unwillingness to accept his new world and conveys his refusal to seek companionship. Comparably to The story of Tom Brennan whereby the protagonist fails to adapt to his new paradigm due to immense social and emotional barriers, Norman Jewison’s biographical film The Hurricane demonstrates that coming in terms with inner fear and anxiety allows one to overcome the emotional barriers and enter into a new world that affords a greater self.
it is important to understand Tom Robinsons innocence and see how prejudice effects society. Knowing how Prejudice effects the decisions of people is an integral part to the story, prejudice being present in Maycombs society creates an emotional response from the reader. For example we know that Tom Robinson is innocent but as he is still convicted in order to gain an emotional response from the reader. Prejudice in Maycomb society eventually leads to Toms death, Maycomb society decided toms fate in the courtroom and he was sent to prison where he died being shot 17
In the United States, there are million of women and men being convicted of crimes and sent to prison. The prison system is thought to be a place for rehabilitation, for convicted felons to change their life from being a menace to society to begin a positive contributor. However, for many years prisons have not been able to meet their goal due to unlawful treatment of prisoners and corrupt authoritative figures in the prison system. Many prisoner do not get the protection the law provides. In the Rita Hayworth and Shaw shank Redemption written by Stephen King, the prison system and it’s corruption is presented in support of these accusations.
The demographic group most affected by the war on drugs and the incarceration boom are the juveniles. Youth who turn to drugs and alcohol abuse are faced with harsh reality at YSI Facilities, another branch of the private prison industry. Rather than being charged with fines appropriate to their offenses and being sent to rehabilitation or other forms of drug treatment, non-violent offenders are locked away with long, harsh sentences. This profit-driven war on drugs and other substance abuse ruins the lives of the inmates, turning them into harder criminals by exposing them to such environments. According to a project run by The Huffington Post, 40% of juvenile offenders sent to private prisons on account of drug related crimes are arrested and convicted of harsher crimes in less than a year from their release (Kirkham).
Placing them in adult prison subjects them to violence and exploitation, and deprives them of the chance to start their new lives. Author Howell C.James, reveals in his book Juvenile Justice and Youth Violence that ‘An OOJJDP study (Flaherty, 1980) found the suicide rate among jailed juveniles to be seven times as high as the rate among juveniles held in detention centers. Experience had shown that juveniles did not receive basic services (counseling, medical, recreational) in facilities constructed and operated for adults’ (Howell 36). Minors in an adult prison are having their most creative years destroyed and they are certainly not learning how to be good citizens by being abused by inmates three times their age. Putting juvenile offenders in with adults increases their chances offending again when they are
The central debate over mental illness is not about its existence, but rather over how to define it (Christian Perring, 2010). Issues of mental illness intersect with important questions about responsibility and what consequences a mentally ill person should be tried with. There becomes a fine line when deciding whether to place a mentally ill person who has committed a crime into a prison or a psychiatric ward. With the tens of thousands of mentally ill that are positioned in prisons, physicians are torn by the difficulty of the segregation unit. The mentally ill may be incapable at times to psychologically make appropriate decisions for themselves but keeping a mentally ill prisoner in confinement over consecutive amounts of time violates
‘Light’ for example has no meaning if there is no ‘darkness’; Love’ has no meaning if there is no ‘hatred’. Any action, however interesting at first, becomes monotonous in the long run. Take the case of an executioner. When he hangs a man for the first time, he is badly shaken at the idea of putting a human life to an end. But as he gets used to it, he becomes a hardened soul.