In fact they saw him as a legitimate drug dealer who is making the streets filthy and harming, if not killing, thousands upon thousands of lives. ... On a daily, the threat of violence and physical and sexual abuse was prevalent and it put a lot of fear in the lives of the inmates. ... The behavior of most who enter the system are in for violent crimes and when you put violent offenders with no regard for other humans beings lives, you get a violent society ready to cross the lines of abuse. If one is abused and fearful for their lives, then in turn they get violent and the next best thing to ...

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Therefore, although some people state that the life without parole is too cruel to adolescent, it is still fair that some juveniles who committed severe crimes are sentenced to life without parole. Opponents believe that juvenile criminals should not be locked away the whole life. ... The guilt as severe as murder deserve that the offenders are locked for life to compensate for the lost lives. ... Therefore, severe violent teenage crimes should result in life sentence. ... All in all, although many people think that spending the whole life in prison is too unreasonable for juveniles, some ext...

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The inevitable has come upon him and says his life is over. ... Holmes ended up taking 12 innocent lives, injuring 70 others, and emotionally stirring millions. ... " The reason being is because past research did not take a punishment like life in prison into consideration (Johnson, 2012). ... The fact being is because a capital trial requires a much lengthier judicial process than any other since a life is at stake. ... After all, once a life is taken, there is no going back. ...

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Having the ability to take courses and improve their lives when they thought it could never happen, makes people want to change their lives and become a part of society in a way they never thought possible. ... Many of the inmates are in prison for years at a time and all they know is the prison life style. ... They tend to resort back to a life of crime because they are having trouble adjusting to society. ... Society has to remember that inmates are human beings too, and sometimes they need an extra push to improve their lives. ... Education is always a great tool regardless of where someon...

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American Court System Life with No Possibility of Parole Imagine receiving a 25-year prison sentence with no possible chance of parole. ... Now imagine it is the first offence, and yet there is still a 25-year to life sentence imposed. ... This law state that any individual caught in possession with intent to sell 650 grams of cocaine or heroin must receive a life sentence without a possibility of parole. ... This is a large majority of offenders, with no prior criminal record, who will be spending the rest of their lives in jail. ... These sentences, in Federal cases, can range anywher...

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The fact is lots of people don't really think that way, they think what is the safest and easiest way to deal with these children, without absolutely destroying their lives. ... When children are put into jail and detention centers alongside adults, their lives are basically over. ... Instead they are educated by experienced, violent adult offenders in the cruel practices of prison life. ... Many people thought that this time tragedy struck too close to their lives and the lives of their loved ones. ... But there is no reason to ruin a kid's life when the crime he committed is inco...

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Furthermore, anybody has no right to deprive of other people's lives, even if governments or courts also can not authorize anyone or any organization to do this. ... Therefore, the criminal's life rights should be also respected. ... Consequently, keeping the criminal's lives in prisons is better for their relations than killing them. ... However, Life is only one time for a person. Once capital punishment is executed, life can not be retrievable. ...

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America's approach to mass incarceration is racist and flawed because of the lack of sentencing and policing reform, how it negatively impacts the lives of inmates who are non-violent offenders, and because of the way that it affects inmates' lives once they get out of prison. ... "And it surely doesn't take 20, 30, 40 or 50 years because your life is gone. Your life is completely gone.... Mass incarceration is also negatively impacting the lives of minorities because of what follows once they eventually get out of prison. ... In conclusion, the American justice system is ...

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Both sides would agree that to kill is to deprive someone of life or to put someone to death. ... Any lesser punishment would undermine the value society places on protecting lives. ... Our criminal justice system should lead us to higher principles that demonstrate a complete respect for life, even the life of a killer. ... The idea of an eye for an eye, or a life for a life, is a hasty generalization and a simplistic view which our society should not endorse. ... No issue posed by capital punishment is more disturbing than the prospect that innocent people's lives are at stake. ...

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To begin with, the people against death penalty say that the "process of the death penalty consumes remarkable amounts of money and resources," but many people would agree that saving lives and keeping them safe is actually more moral than saving millions of dollars by not executing murderers (Ballaro, and Cushman). Also, many religious people want the government to have mercy on the murderers, because they say a human life is sacred, but what they do not know is that murderers take brutally the lives of the innocent victims. By not recognizing that the victims' lives are sacre...

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(F) Some people might say that no one life is more important than another life, but one life is not more important than seventeen other lives. ... It is possible for serious criminals to escape prison but death is guaranteed to be a permanent solution to end that criminal's life of crime. ... It has been proven useful, and can save many lives. ... Kent Scheidegger, legal director for the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation stated that, "There are times when life in prison without parole is just not a sufficient punishment"(Smith). ...

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Consider the deceased, whose lives have been prematurely ended due to reasons beyond their control, and their families who are left heartbroken in their wake. ... To have robbed someone of their life is big enough a shock to any driver, and an offence they are unlikely to repeat. Their lives, too, have been indelibly altered. ...

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The death penalty is costly, unfair; inhumane so therefore should be abolished yet for the past twenty- five years life after life has been taken away in death chambers across America. ... (national) The death penalty seems to be racially discordant because it seems to count white lives as more valuable than black lives. ... Until race and other arbitrary factors, like economics and geography, can be eliminated as a determinant of who lives and who dies, the death penalty needs to be abolished. ... Life is the most precious gift we as humans are given and when someone takes a life, the b...

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The topic on whether teenagers should be sentenced to life without parole has been a controversial subject for quite some time now. ... Taking away freedom from juveniles for their rest of their life gives them no chance for their young self an opportunity to improve their life. ... "Today we are witness to criminal defendants facing life sentence without parole, who cannot shave and still play with fire trucks. ... If the proper guidance is provided, it gives an opportunity to that the young and still-forming life can be put on a better path. By sentencing children, we do not provide a ...

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The American juvenile justice system does not offer fair judgment when sentencing juvenile offenders to life sentences without parole. When dealing with life sentencing, the justice system is not taking into account 1. every aspect of societal issues that arise, 2. the effects the sentence has on these young adults, and furthermore 3. the other ways to help these young teens change their lives positively rather than disregard them all together. ... When dealing with juveniles, we need to ask ourselves what are the benefits of abolishing life sentences without parole? ... The system fails to re...

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Even though the prison system has flaws with dealing people who have committed mid-level crimes, it has even bigger insufficiencies with dealing with people who have molested or taken the lives away from others. ... People who have committed these types of relentless crimes tend to get life long sentences without the possibility of parole. ... This system overvalues the life of the convict and undervalues the life of the person who was inflicted by them. ... When they are sent to prison, they have a life that is far better than living on the streets. ... For more serious, first-hand criminal...

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(Zinn, A People's History, 514) "The prisons in the United States had long been an extreme reflection of the American system itself: the stark life differences between rich and poor . . . and the use of victims against one another." ... Then governor of New York, Nelson Rockefeller put an end to the uprising five days later, as thirty one prisoners and nine guards lost their lives. ... In the fourteen years from 1494 to 1508, over three million Natives lost their lives to the hands of the Europeans. ...

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And we were three - yet, each alone (The Prisoner of Chillon, III, 49) Alone, alone, all, all alone (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, IV, 232) These lines are taken from the poems of two virtually opposite writers, both of whom, however, reveal a deep interest in the effect which a person's (mis)deeds can have on his own life or on other people's lives. ... These form the parts of an ordeal during which the sinner has to reconsider and reassess his attitude towards life in order to pass through it and be admitted again into the world of the living. ... In days of pol...

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But there are other prisoners who feel optimistic that once they are released from their prison cells, they can go back to their normal lives. ... Recently, the Foundation launched a new program called The National Emotional Literacy Project for Prisoners, its first major and ongoing initiative, which gives incarcerated men and women throughout the United States a powerful program to help them change life-long patterns of violence and addiction and build productive lives. Lionheart's prison program helps prisoners take stock of the life experiences that have propelled them into criminal...

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O"Rourke's documentary Cannibal Tours, examines the lives of the Iatmul Indians living in Papua New Guinea by filming the interaction between the natives and the western tourists who visit them, ultimetley bluring the boundaries between self and other. ... Foucault's concept of the panopticon instills a fear of the unknown into the lives of the watched. ... In Western societies, we are moving towards a life of total visibility, where attempts to control people, society and actions are not accomplished with acts of violence or punishment, but by the act of being watched. ... Althou...

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Prisons give offenders a second chance to improve their lives and make things right once again. ... The education provided will offer them knowledge that they can use to create a successful life after serving their prison sentences. The college programs in prisons gives education opportunities to inmates, opportunities that they previously didn't have access to, aiming to benefit them in their lives once they are released. The offered education makes them return home with hope and confidence, having with them capability to find and hold satisfying jobs in a wide range of fields, which rad...

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Now the worst punishment impoundable by Australian law is life imprisonment, with no parole. ... These people defended life imprisonment as a more rational choice. ... According to the statistics it costs up to three times the amount to keep a prisoner on death row than it would be to keep them in prison for the rest of their lives. ... The execution of these criminals would get rid of them forever and need not bear with the life long expenses of food, shelter, medical bills and so on. ... If capital punishment were to have been used, these risks would be non-existent and society will be lib...

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"And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. ... This type of institutionalized banter had grown within various institutions and has become a way of life. ... Within the justice system, and the mechanisms of justice that exist therein, the institutionalized fear of criminals has caused many Christian Americans to favour the death penalty initially, but when presented with hard, factual evidence that capital punishment does not, in fact, deter v...

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Capital Punishment is in essence taking a human life in exchange for some wrong doing committed by a person that has been deemed to be so offensive to society it warrants the ending of the accuser's life. ... I cannot support a system, which, in its administration, has proven to be so fraught with error and has come so close to the ultimate nightmare, the state's taking of innocent life. ... When dealing with human lives errors are not acceptable. ... Human beings are not infallible and mistakes are bound to occur in life, and we are seeing every day that the correctional field is ...

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The point of these programs is to scare juveniles away from crime-how officials have decided to do that is to bring at-risk youth into prisons where they can take a tour and submerge themselves into the prison life for a couple of hours. A couple of hours spent in a jail is supposed to make a big enough impression on the youth to direct them away from a life of deviancy and help them straighten their lives out. ... Project Right Turn does not aim to scare juveniles straight, it aims to educate juveniles on the potential consequences of continued delinquent behavior and its impact on their li...

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