At one point, K Wing housed approximately 36 prisoners from the two main Manchester gangs, along with 20 to 30 inmates convicted of murder, and another 60 to 70 inmates serving time for violent offenses. And no one’s surprised,” Samworth explained. People who do not integrate with others include rapists and paedophiles. They are isolated for their protection. How Neil Samworth might have struck Mark Bridger Dealing with notable inmates during his time at HMP Manchester, Neil Samworth encountered individuals like Mark Bridger, who received a life sentence for the tragic murder of five-year-old April Jones in 2012. Bridger spent 10 months on remand at Strangeways before being convicted and moved to HMP Wakefield. "He's manipulative; he's an evil …show more content…
Samworth remembers attending health reviews while Bridger was closely monitored for his well-being. He complained about not being able to see his dog and worried about being in prison when his parents passed away. Everything revolved around him. It's clear that he harmed this young girl in some way. There were moments when Neil Samworth felt like punching his face, but he maintained his composure. Chapter 6 Turning point in Samworth's career Even with the ongoing violence and the challenges of interacting with the most challenging people in society on a daily basis, Neil Samworth admits that he found satisfaction in his work at the start. Outside of work, he and his companion Amy have a daughter named Billie. The detainees were generally well-behaved, and officers worked together as a tight-knit unit. He describes his role at that time as primarily observing people, monitoring the well-being of the prisoners while also ensuring their behavior. His approach of treating them fairly, regardless of their offenses, led to the inmates generally showing him respect. He recalls the pivotal moment
He eventually snuck into the cell of a 56 year old Bill Roberts and attacked him as he lay on his bunk, hacking at his skull with a knife that he made and then repeatedly bashed his head against the wall. After that he said he remembers calmly walked into the wing office, placed a serrated home made knife on the desk and informed the guards that they would be two short when it came to the next roll-call. They both deserved to die didn’t they? What if you were in a parking lot with no one around and this man tried to rape you? During Robert Maudsley’s last murder trial in 1979, he explained to the court that during his violent rages he truly believed that in his mind his victims truly were his parents. Maudsley’s lawyers even disputed that his killings were the result of pent up hostility resulting from a childhood of constant abuse. If Maudsley had killed his parents in 1970, none of these people would have been killed. Maudsley made this quote “If I would have killed them, then I would be walking around as a free man without a care in the world.” After this he was convicted of double murder, and was moved into solitary where he has stayed since his last
The first chapter in the book At The Dark End of the Street is titled “They’d Kill Me If I Told.” Rosa Park’s dad James McCauley was a expert stonemason and barrel-chested builder. Louisa McCauley was Rosa Park’s grandmother, she was homestead and her husband and oldest son built homes throughout Alabama’s Black Belt. In 1912 James McCauley went to go hear his brother-in-law preach. While there, he noticed a beautiful light named Leona Edwards. She was the daughter of Rose Percival and Sylvester Edwards. Sylvester was a mistreated slave who learned to hate white people. Leona and James McCauley got married a couple months after meeting and Rosa was conceived about nine months after the wedding. In 1915, James decided to move North with all
Chapter six of Blown to Bits by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis focuses on the availability of bits via the internet and how easily they can be stolen. They discuss how companies attempt to combat this issue and potential issues that this can present. Throughout the chapter, the authors contemplate the effects that the internet has had on copyright infringement and legislation surrounding that. They discuss authorized use and rulings surrounding it. The overarching theme of the chapter seems to be that the internet was made to share information, however; in that process, information can be stolen easily, and that issue is not easy to combat.
In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, young Louie Zamperini is the troublemaker of Torrance, California. After his life had taken a mischievous turn, his older brother, Pete, managed to convert his love of running away, into a passion for running on the track. At first, Louie’s old habit of smoking gets the best of him, and it is very hard for him to compare to the other track athletes. After a few months of training, coached by Pete, Louie begins to break high school records, and became the fastest high school miler in 1934. After much more hard work, goes to the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 but is no match for the Finnish runners. He trains hard for the next Olympic Games, and hopes to beat the four minute
What happens when the United States takes over a country's governments? Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer tells the story of how the United States took over the governments of many unstable countries. The U.S interfered with the governments for the worse and caused the countries too lose total control. The most recent places that the United States took over were Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan and Iraq. The United States caused communities to unravel and people to go into total chaos. The United States thought that overthrowing these countries would lead to success and the citizens would be grateful for all that the U.S did, but quite the opposite occurred. The governments changed for the worse and the U.S had a very negative impact on the citizens
Ooka Shohei named the last chapter of Fires on the Plain “In Praise of Transfiguration.” Through the whole novel, readers witness the protagonist Tamura transform from an innocent soldier to a killer. Readers watch him go from condemning the practice of eating human flesh to eating human flesh for his own survival. At the end, Readers see Tamura’s redemption as he shot Nagamatsu who killed and ate his own comrade Yasuda. What was the difference between two men who both killed and ate human beings? To Tamura, the guilt of eating human flesh distinguished himself from Nagamatsu who cold-bloodily killed Yasuda. As Tamura recalled, “I do not remember whether I shot him at that moment. But I do know that I did not eat his flesh; this I should certainly have remembered.” (224) The fact of him shooting at Nagamatsu had no importance to Tamura. However, his emphasis on not eating
" With violence affecting so many lives, one can understand the desire driven by fear to lock away young male offenders. But considering their impoverished, danger-filled lives, I wonder whether the threat of being locked up for decades can really deter them from crime" (305). Hopkins is definitely not our stereotypical prisoner. Most generally, our view of prisoners is not that of someone who has this profound use of wording and this broad sense of knowledge.
London Borough of Brent (1985) A Child in Trust: the report of the panel of inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Jasmine Beckford, London, Brent.
In the Earley book, the author started to talk about the history of mental illness in prison. The mentally ill people were commonly kept in local jails, where they were treated worse than animals. State mental hospitals were typically overcrowded and underfunded. Doctors had very little oversight and often abused their authority. Dangerous experimental treatments were often tested on inmates.
Ashley Smith was a young girl that was placed in a juvenile detention centre at age 15 for throwing apples at a mail man. Her short sentence quickly extended into a life sentence because of so many infractions within the prison system. Ashley suffered from extreme mental health issues and was place in a psychiatric prison facility, however this facility was shown in the documentary to be corrupt and their actions with Ashley were extremely illegal. Furthermore, Ashley wasn’t given the proper help and treatment that she needed, instead she was physically and verbally abused by guards in the prison, and she ultimately passed away in the prison. Her death is still being debated about whether
The three chapters assigned to be read out of Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market, a novel by Susan Strasser, outline the consumer culture of the United States around the end of 19th century, following the conclusion of the civil war. The chapters work chronologically and describe the rapid evolution of companies’ production, advertising and branding techniques. The reading also hits some of the main goods introduced at the time, most of which we still use today, and the troubles that companies faced convincing the public to invest in (purchase) their product for the first time. The problem with introducing thousands of products that no one had ever heard of? Most people will naturally pick the safe bet when spending
In Chapter 2 of They Say/ I Say, Graff et.al. discusses the craft and techniques of summaries, well technically the art of it. A summary explains the critical information presented in a writer’s own words from another source in a reduced length. Summaries can still make it possible for people to gain knowledge even if they are busy. While writing a summary, the writer should only focus on the text and information from the other source. Writers can achieve this by playing the “believing game” in which the writer suspends their own beliefs and focuses only on the summary, to not cause confusion for the reader. If the writers refuse to not focus on the viewpoint of the author then there will be two different viewpoints in the summary that will
In chapter three Isbister explains that social scientists wrestled to justify conditions in the third world, as a result, a mixture of indefinite theories developed. A point often overlooked, by social scientists is that the struggle and growth of Asia, Africa, and Latin America cannot be measured “in statistics, nor in treatises of social scientists and historians.” After reading the chapter, an obvious conclusion stood out poverty is tangible for most of the world’s people and nations. Why is this and who is to blame? Are the poor people to be blamed for their own poverty? The answers are arranged into three different groups: mod¬ernization, dependency, and Marxism.
This piece is clearly an excerpt from a series of books, which are published for general readers with some academic backgrounds, such as politicians, teachers, students and white collar workers. The article was written in 1996, with contemporary information, and it can somewhat reflect the current issues and it definitely shows how visionary the author is to prevent violent crimes. Not only does Dr. Gilligan write this article to spread his ideas about the truth behind violence and how to prevent violence, but he also intends to call attention to reform the prison system. In order to stop the endless cycle where prisoners become more violent when they are punished harder, Gilligan had one on one conversation with prisoners and he learned that all they want are “Pride. Dignity.
“How do groups play a role in a community or individually?” “How can leadership and roles build positive relationships” Hi my name is Athena and today I'll be examining the role of individuals and groups played in the movie “Remember the Titans” In “Remember the Titans,” the main group is a sporting group, specifically a competitive high school football team from Alexandria, Virginia in the 1970’s. The team formation was driven by geography, shared interests, and a common goal during a turbulent period. After the end of racial segregation in America, the local school board mandated the integration of the high school despite protests from the community, leading to the merging of the two schools’ football teams. The two coaches from these teams are forced to lead