... are called, or markings, are everywhere. It has gotten out of control. Among the gangs in the Charlotte area are the Bloods, Crips, and MS13s. All of these of course are dangerous, but the MS13s seem to be the worst at the moment. It has come to the attention of local as well as federal law enforcement that the MS13s are being sent trainers. Their gang is one that is controlled from El ... Salvador, and it has been decided by those in charge that the local ... central control, training, and a chain of command, they are similar in a lot of ways. The MS13s have also been reported as bein...

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... a minimum . Which if you ask me is a good idea, the little extra taxes wouldn't bother me . I look at it this way pay a little more, be safer, and create jobs within these facilities is fine by me. No other country in the world has imprisoned so many of its citizens, this worries me , does the fact that we have so much more freedom cause this ... problem or do people just lack the respect for life or something else all together . Here is my theory crimes are a disease and ... just like a physical disease it spreads not through the body but through the society which we live . it is incu...

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... marijuana. It's this drug that helps them pass the time, day after day. These patients range in age from 14 to 86. Their illnesses are as common as severe headaches to phantom pain of an amputated limb. Many paraplegics and quads have had this so-called "drug" prescribed to them because it soothes their unbearable spasms and gives them hope and reason to ... live. Almost every culture that we have knowledge of has historically used this ancient herb for all kinds of ailments, both physical and mental. Our own culture used cannabis up to 60 years ago. That's when ... for using marijuana...

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... whom are poorly educated, minorities, females, or relatively young are more likely to be executed than people with the opposite characteristics. Capital Punishment is also a violation of the 8th Amendment, "...nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." Being hung, shot with a lethal compound, or being electrocuted is definitely cruel and unusual. If a person is guilty and is sentenced to death, they never get ... to feel pain or guilt for the crime they have committed. Feeling the guilt would become worse a punishment than death. The Death Penalty can also ... dead, you can't make ...

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High school shooter, T.J. Lane, was officially charged with murder after his shooting rampage left three fellow students dead. Next week, a juvenile court in Geauga County, Ohio will decide whether or not Lane will be tried as an adult in court. As it stands, as a juvenile he is not able to receive the death penalty. On Monday, February 27th, Lane opened fire on a group of students at Chardon High School, the high school he attended for at-risk students. Lane killed three students and wounded two others. He was charged with three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated attempted ...

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High school shooter, T.J. Lane, was officially charged with murder after his shooting rampage left three fellow students dead. Next week, a juvenile court in Geauga County, Ohio will decide whether or not Lane will be tried as an adult in court. As it stands, as a juvenile he is not able to receive the death penalty. On Monday, February 27th, Lane opened fire on a group of students at Chardon High School, the high school he attended for at-risk students. Lane killed three students and wounded two others. He was charged with three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated attempted ...

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High school shooter, T.J. Lane, was officially charged with murder after his shooting rampage left three fellow students dead. Next week, a juvenile court in Geauga County, Ohio will decide whether or not Lane will be tried as an adult in court. As it stands, as a juvenile he is not able to receive the death penalty. On Monday, February 27th, Lane opened fire on a group of students at Chardon High School, the high school he attended for at-risk students. Lane killed three students and wounded two others. He was charged with three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated attempted ...

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High school shooter, T.J. Lane, was officially charged with murder after his shooting rampage left three fellow students dead. Next week, a juvenile court in Geauga County, Ohio will decide whether or not Lane will be tried as an adult in court. As it stands, as a juvenile he is not able to receive the death penalty. On Monday, February 27th, Lane opened fire on a group of students at Chardon High School, the high school he attended for at-risk students. Lane killed three students and wounded two others. He was charged with three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated attempted ...

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... Probabilities, Possibilities, and Lies"(Day, 1996). Some aspects of criminal reporting, or any reporting for that matter, have not changed since the invention of the printing press. Research on these reports is often lacking. Many stories go on air or to press without input from both sides of the conflict. Many times quotes are misquoted and the media will misrepresent a story just to make it more ... interesting. A good example of this is a story that hit the newspapers in July of 1993. A local horseback-riding ... club, The Westernaires, suffered some negative media attention when on...

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... to prevent crime from happening. Further research has also revealed that the area of the U.S. is the most responsible for most of the executions. It also has had the highest murder rate in the past decades. The death penalty can be viewed as being the most over-looked form of hypocrisy in the governmental system. The defining principle of the death penalty is that we kill people who have killed people to show that killing is ... , and at times indirectly, affected by the criminals favor the death penalty to compensate for the wrongdoing the criminal has done to the family of the victim. ...

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... Argentina who has adopted a young girl named Gaby. In Argentina, a lot of people were kidnapped and forced to have babies and sell them on the black market. Many are still considered missing, as they are victims of these kidnapping crimes. Alicia comes to suspect her husband may have bought Gaby on the black market. He denies it at first, but when a woman comes to ... know what happened to their sons and daughters. This is an example of a country that needed a forceful leader, a good military and police department. Someone should have stepped in and taken over when things got out of con...

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... These psychopaths are humans with a serious mental illness causing violent behavior. For example Jeffrey Dahmer, who came from a normal family but when reached the puberty stage, he fantasizes about having sex with dead men. As this thought clouded his mind, he became more and more alienated with his family ... do it on purpose even though they have reasons for killing that person, it is still not forgivable because they took a life on an innocent human being. There are many more criminal cases concerned about raping and killing. I do believe in second chances, but when there is killing ...

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... than helpful. Surveyors say kids spend too much time on the internet and neglect other more important things. The internet provides a lot of easy access to sites not suitable to younger viewers. Criminals are disguising themselves to talk to young adults and they become victims of crimes. Since there is so much entertainment on the internet including games and music, kids spend too much time ... on it. Not only is this expensive, but it interferes with more important things. Instead of working on school work in, and out of school, kids are on the internet doing other things instead. The...

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... have the liberty to do what he or she wanted without being reprimanded for it. He decided to be a rebel against what Ralph stood and what he was trying to accomplish. Jack started up what he called "his gang" and he had several people following him. This is very much like today's government. There is a leader and followers. Others got tired of Ralph ... and all of his rules and decided to join Jack's gang. Piggy was the only one who remained loyal to Ralph and all of his ideas. They shared the same morals and beliefs. They all had their own ideas on how things should be done. Some ... ...

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... began to be obsessed with nudity, pornagrapy, and sex, He once said, " there is notheing I wanted more than the body of a naked woman." Ramirez began sneaking around his small town late at night and spying on the neighbors as they made love. This was the first of many sterotypical signs carried by serial killers that Ramirez waould show. Later he began killing small animals, Squirrels ... , rabbits, and so on. However he would torture the animals by soiling them with gasoline and setting them on fire before he would but them out of their misery. This is a characteristic he would show lat...

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... as they spend with their parents on a daily basis. GeorgeGerbner, Ph.D., at the University of Pennsylvania did studies, which show that in one-hour of viewing children's television you are likely to see about twenty acts of violence. The open violence in today's media is, in part, responsible for the violence in today's society. The violence on TV desensitizes children to violence in their lives. They see ... , especially those with learning, behavioral, and emotional problems more likely to imitate what they see. There was a study done at the University of Pennsylvania, which had 100 pr...

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... and self- defeating. These adolescents were being released back into society as hardened criminals. That is why the juvenile justice system was developed. So why then, nearly a century later, is the American Congress taking a step back and reuniting adults and juveniles in the same prison system. Shouldn't we be learning from the mistakes of the past? Obviously that's not what the Congress thinks because 15 states have now ... . Lock up a thirteen year old with murderers, rapists and robbers, and guess he"ll want to be when he grows up? In the juvenile system youth get councelling, rehab...

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... of their circumstances in life which are entirely beyond their control. No one should be in jail and there shouldn't be any prisons. Most people are not born with criminal intent. " everybody is equally good and equally bad." Society teaches us to be good and then we will get rich and be happy. The question is: do people truly get rich by being ... good? According to Darrow, people have to find other ways to "get rich." Not everybody in jail is an "angle," but they are all trying to do the best they can. "A jail is evidence of the lack of charity of the people on the outside who make th...

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... and dismemberment. This is about responsibility and protecting our children from video games' sex and violence," Baca, a Democrat, said in a telephone interview. According to the video game industry, parents purchase 83 percent of all games. There are plenty of ways for parents to check up on games coming into their home, but it's not easy to keep up with everything. " So far we ... have nothing good come out of violent video games. The most violent video games get the highest ratings. For example: Halo, Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto Vice City, Splinter Cell, and Max Payne. Most ...

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... kill them. It doesn't make sense. You are allowed to kill them, but they are not allowed to kill someone. As William Hearst said it "There is no deterrent in the menace of the gallows. Cruelty and viciousness are not abolished by cruelty and viciousness "not even legalized cruelty and viciousness Our penal system has broken down because it is built upon ... the sand "founded on the basis of force and violence "instead of on than basis of Christian care of our fellowmen, of moral and mental human development, of the conscientious performance by the State of its duty to the citizen. We ca...

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... against the defendant and will have witnesses. The defence council will then cross examine the witnesses to show the weaknesses in the prosecutions case. If there is not enough evidence held against the defendant to face trial the magistrate will make the decision of allowing the defendant to go. If there is enough evidence to present for the defendant to stand trial the magistrate will make the decision of the date of the trials occurance and the court ... that it will be placed in. The trial of the indictable offence will then be heard either in a District or Supreme ... ...

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... . This former postal worker killed six and wounded seven after a 6,000-year-old spirit invaded his neighbor's Labrador and commanded him to do the evil deeds. He sent numerous letters to Jimmy Breslin of the New York Daily News and the NYPD exulting his exploits. While in prison Dave was assaulted and had his throat slit. He survived, but now has a fifty-six stitch ... killer is a person who attacks and kills victims one by one in a series of incidents. David Berkowitz was one of the most feared killers in New York City in the 1970's. His crimes caused the death of six people, and the in...

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... or not Lane will be tried as an adult in court. As it stands, as a juvenile he is not able to receive the death penalty. On Monday, February 27th, Lane opened fire on a group of students at Chardon High School, the high school he attended for at-risk students. Lane killed three students and wounded two others. He was charged with three counts ... took a .22 caliber Ruger pistol and a knife to school on Monday morning and then opened fire on a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table. He later confessed to the murders. Lane fired ten shots before Frank Hall, the assistant football ...

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... or not Lane will be tried as an adult in court. As it stands, as a juvenile he is not able to receive the death penalty. On Monday, February 27th, Lane opened fire on a group of students at Chardon High School, the high school he attended for at-risk students. Lane killed three students and wounded two others. He was charged with three counts ... took a .22 caliber Ruger pistol and a knife to school on Monday morning and then opened fire on a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table. He later confessed to the murders. Lane fired ten shots before Frank Hall, the assistant football ...

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... or not Lane will be tried as an adult in court. As it stands, as a juvenile he is not able to receive the death penalty. On Monday, February 27th, Lane opened fire on a group of students at Chardon High School, the high school he attended for at-risk students. Lane killed three students and wounded two others. He was charged with three counts ... took a .22 caliber Ruger pistol and a knife to school on Monday morning and then opened fire on a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table. He later confessed to the murders. Lane fired ten shots before Frank Hall, the assistant football ...

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