Guantanamo Bay, should the inmates be moved to Colorado? On November 9th -10th of this year, officials from the Pentagon traveled to Colorado to see if there were any sites that could potentially be used for the prisoners of Guantanamo Bay to be moved there. It of course would have to be voted on by the US senate. Senator Cory Gardner from Colorado said “I remain opposed to any plan to bring Guantanamo terrorists to Colorado, In my opinion we should not even consider the possibility of moving “Gitmo”. () If it happens then we have the very real possibilities of breakouts, attacks, and the prisoners obtaining electronic devices like some American prisoners. In this day and age anything is possible so if the terrorists hack the grid and
shut it down then we will have war criminals, terrorists, and killers running more rampant and horrible things will happen more and more.When you have terrorists regrouping and hacking the world descends into chaos even more than it is and we the people would no longer have rights. The USA will be no more and regarded as nothing. So why let that happen when we can stop it. Now there are also some tiny good aspects to this, Gitmo is in a country split by corrupt officials and terrible conditions. Now if you add the fact that Isis has infiltrated basically every country, we have a big problem now if you add corruption, Isis, bad conditions, and the fact that it is easier to get in then to get out is a major problem. If people from terrorists organizations try and break out prisoners then that is a huge problem, because if that happens they get pretty much all the masterminds to tons of terrorists attacks. The world will continue to crumble more and more with some of the most evil people in the world trying to demolish every soul until there is no one else. Either way has its own world crushing downfalls, but it’s not my decision it is Congress. So I guess we will have to wait and see.
On July 11th, 1975 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin a doctor by the name of Lester V. Salinsky, performed a surgery on the plaintiff, James Johnson. The surgery was took place at Misericordia Community Hospital (Misericordia), defendant, by Dr. Salinsky. Dr. Salinsky was scheduled to remove a pin fragment from the plaintiff’s right hip. However, “during the course of this surgery, the plaintiff’s common femoral nerve and artery were damaged causing a permanent paralytic condition of his right thigh muscles with resultant atrophy and weakness and loss of function” (Johnson v. Misericordia Community Hospital, n.d.). The plaintiff filed suit against Dr. Salinksy and Misericorida on October 13th, 1976, fifteen months after his unsuccessful surgery, which
legal action was their only recourse left. They filed lawsuits and soon Corcoran State Prison was in the public spot light. The F.B.I. would soon become involved a...
Mandatory minimums for controlled substances were first implemented in the 1980s as a countermeasure for the hysteria that surrounded drugs in the era (“A Brief History,” 2014). The common belief was that stiff penalties discouraged people from using drugs and enhanced public safety (“A Brief History,” 2014). That theory, however, was proven false and rather than less illegal drug activity, there are simply more people incarcerated. Studies show that over half of federal prisoners currently incarcerated are there on drug charges, a 116 percent percentage rise since 1970 (Miles, 2014). Mass incarceration is an ever growing issue in the United States and is the result of policies that support the large scale use of imprisonment on
Whether or not Supermax prisons, short for super-maximum security prisons, are more crucial and longer lasting, the question has been if these prisons are useful in applying lessons learned into criminals. Supermax prisons hold some of the most dangerous criminals convicted. Supermax prisons have been known to have their pros and cons. The common pros of supermax prisons was the separation of gangs as well as many other prisoners who act out in violence commonly. Although many may say that these kind of prisons are considered “concentration” and “dispersion”, supermax prisons are often needed to maintain relief of the criminals not acting out. The effectiveness of supermax prisons is what many debate on, which have made many different arguments
...and deserve to be there for the crimes they have committed and they also cause risk to national security according to “ Keep Guantanamo open: Opposing view”.People think this is true because terrorist are dangerous people and do pose a threat to everyone's safety.On the other hand the people at Guantanamo bay are mostly suspects and everyone is innocent until proven guilty.In Guantanamo Bay prison you do not have the right to prove you are innocent and it is very difficult to try.
In the 1970s, prison was a dangerous place. Prison violence and the high numbers of disruptive inmates led prison authorities to seek new ways to control prisoners. At first, prison staff sought to minimize contact with prisoners by keeping them in their cells for a majority of the day. As time went on, the prison authorities began to brainstorm the idea of having entire prisons dedicated to using these kind of procedures to control the most violent and disruptive inmates. By 1984, many states began construction on super-maximum prisons. In California, two supermax facilities were built by the state: Corcoran State Prison in 1988, and then Pelican Bay in 1989. The federal government soon followed suit and in 1994, the “first federal supermax opened, in Florence, Colorado.” It was not much longer before supermax prisons could be seen all over the country (Abramsky). In Wisconsin’s supermax facility, with similar conditions being found in a majority of supermaxes, there are “100-cell housing units” that are in groups of 25 cells. These cells all face a secured central area. Technology plays a major role in keeping the facility to the highest security standards. Every cell’s doors are controlled remotely and the cells include “video surveillance, motion detection and exterior lighting” (Berge). With these technological securities, there are also procedural precautions. Inmates are kept in their cells for 23 hours a day until their sentences are done. This is said to be for prisoner and staff safety, although some feel otherwise. In 2001, 600 inmates at Pelican Bay went on a hunger strike, demanding reform. Those on hunger strike believed that the isolation and deprivation they faced was against their Eighth Amendment rights. ...
In recent years, there has been controversy over mass incarceration rates within the United States. In the past, the imprisonment of criminals was seen as the most efficient way to protect citizens. However, as time has gone on, crime rates have continued to increase exponentially. Because of this, many people have begun to propose alternatives that will effectively prevent criminals from merely repeating their illegal actions. Some contend that diversion programs, such as rehabilitation treatment for drug offenders, is a more practical solution than placing mentally unstable individuals into prison. By helping unsteady criminals regain their health, society would see an exceptional reduction in the amount of crimes committed. Although some
Even in this modern day, your rights are not always secured. During wartime, the government can suspend Habeas Corpus, which prevents unfair arrests and punishments. Suspending Habeas Corpus is taking your rights to a fair trial, and throwing them in the trash. As you are probably assuming, the suspension of habeas corpus has been a controversial topic. You must also be asking yourself, “why take away the people's’ rights, wasn’t the United States built on the rights of citizens?”. Some people see that suspending Habeas Corpus could be useful during a war because it allows someone to quickly be prosecuted, with only the need for probable cause, while other people see it as an unnecessary check on American citizens’ rights.
On an average nearly 688,000 prisoners are released back into society, and of which includes 433,000 prisoner's waiting for trial and convictions, and the remaining percentage of prisoner's are serving sentences for minor and non-violent crimes, although, in the attempt to ensure public safety. Prison overcrowding continues to be a grave concern to the safety and welfare of the general public in California today because consequently the percentage of juvenile offenders detained represents 12,000 for technical violations, and 3,000 juveniles are detained for status offenses costing the taxpayers on an average $31,286 annually, and currently, the number of offender’s incarcerated in State and Federal prisons today is an astounding 2.4 million
Social capital theory is grounded in an understanding of both social and family investment is what plays a role in preventing adverse outcomes (Wright, Cullen, and Miller, 2001). The interpersonal nature, the social activity is the element that moves the children along a scale with the time invested by parents, the development of emotional bonds, and the message of expectation and boundaries. Moral beliefs, the time devoted to study, and good grades while adversely affecting the involvement with delinquent activities. Children look for positive interaction and will avoid threats of negativity when surrounded positive social impact.
Locked up behind bars, awaiting trial for drugs. You want to show you’re a good person who didn’t do anything wrong, you were framed. You get your cell and cellmate and learn some vital information about how you are being set up to fail. About how the prison system doesn’t work. Issues surrounding our prison system are that mass incarceration doesn’t work for several reasons, solitary confinement should be abolished, and that the Correction Corporation of America is making money off the prisons.
When I was a kid, my parents would ground me for playing too many video games--they tried to make me go to video game rehab, but I said no, no, no! It didn’t stop me from gaming, because my parents couldn’t catch me button mashing my XBOX controller while they were at work, or on my TI-83 while at school, or playing 2048 in the bathroom. The issue was instead of telling me why I shouldn’t be playing, they went right to punishment. And just as my parents style of punishment over rehab didn’t change my behavior, our State and Federal prison system isn’t keeping XBOX controllers out of inmate 's hands… that’s a metaphor. But this problem is no joke. With over a third of released prisoners arrested again within six months of their release, and,
As one of the Supreme Court Justices, I am very disappointed about the actions that our President, commander and chief, has undertaken against the Japanese people that live in the United States. I will do my best to help to prevent and stop this bizarre activity that is happening in the United States currently. I am not sure if I will be able to change much, but I will continue to stand strong in my belief, because I verily believe that such action is very obnoxious. I am against all of the Japanese to be in the Internment camps, especially if they have been interrogated and have been found not guilty of having any connection with the Japanese government. Unfortunately the Executive Order 9066 has been signed by President FDR to relocate all of the Japanese people that live in the United States to internment camps.
Have you ever been punished for something you didn’t do? There are so many reason as to why people either support or oppose the death penalty. This is a very heated topic with most. I will be discussing all the pros and cons pertaining to the death penalty. You will see that both sides have valid points as to why they have chosen their side of this argument. I will also, discuss some of the history of the death penalty. By the end of this essay I hope that I was able to either change your current mind, or at least give you enough information to see, and understand the other side of this disagreement.
The threats to security from the United States Department of Defense, the national power grid and the Chamber of Commerce are very real and omnipresent. The Defense Department made an admission of the first major cyber attack upon its systems in August 2010. It was revealed that the attack actually took place in 2008 and was accomplished by placing a malicious code into the flash drive of a U.S. military laptop. “The code spread undetected on both classified and unclassified systems, establishing what amounted to a digital breachhead.” (2) This quote, attributed to then Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III, is just part of the shocking revelations that were disclosed in his speech made on July 14, 2011.