An Introduction Thoughts on Crime Prison and Justice The law isnt always about truth a friend tells Luis J Rodriguez in his memoir Always Running Rodriguez 192 Thoughts on Crime Prison and Justice ID: 615944
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The Prison System
An IntroductionSlide2
Thoughts on Crime, Prison, and Justice
“’The law isn’t always about truth,’” a friend tells Luis J. Rodriguez in his memoir
Always Running
(Rodriguez 192).Slide3
Thoughts on Crime, Prison, and Justice
“I just spent sixty days in the jailhouse/For the crime of having no dough”—from The Band’s “The Shape I’m in” (1970)Slide4
Thoughts on Crime, Prison, and Justice
T.I. told
Vibe
, “When you are a prisoner, part of the mandate of your sentence is getting up and working. The product you are working on is then put on a market for a corporation that makes top dollar for it…That, to me, is incentivized incarceration…I don’t believe it’s constitutional.”Slide5
Worldwide Prison Rates
According to BBC News, the U.S. prison rates are the highest in the world at 724 people per 100,000
In Russia, that rate is 581 per 100,000 (“World Prison Populations”).Slide6
U.S. Prison System
“The American criminal justice system holds more than 2.3 million people in” state, federal prisons, and juvenile correctional facilities” (“Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2016”).Slide7
U.S Prison System
In the U.S., 1/5 people who are incarcerated are there for a drug-related offense (“Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2016)Slide8
Imprisoned Journalists
According to PBS, the Committee to Protect Journalists, “reported 259 journalists” worldwide, “the highest total since” they started tracking these numbers in 1990 (“Which nations jail the most journalists?).Slide9
Countries Imprisoning the Most JournalistsSlide10
Imprisoned Journalists
Ahmed Douma, Egyptian political activist
Arrested in 2012
Sentenced to life in prisonSlide11
Imprisoned Journalists
Abdullah al-Fakharany, Egyptian co-founder of Rassd News Network
Arrested in 2013
Sentenced to life in prison for “spreading false information” and other chargesSlide12
Imprisoned Journalists
Mahienour El-Massry, Egyptian human rights lawyer and political activist
Arrested in 2013Slide13
Imprisoned Journalists
Roman Sushchenko, Ukrainian journalist
Arrested in 2016Slide14
Imprisoned Journalists
Yang Tongyan, Chinese freelance journalist
Arrested in 2005Slide15
Imprisoned Journalists
Eskinder Nega, Ethiopian columnist, publisher, and editor
Arrested in 2011Slide16
Imprisoned Journalists
Mumia Abu-Jamal, American journalist and political activist
Arrested in 1982Slide17
Essay 2
Summary of Essay 2
: Select someone, a journalist perhaps, who has been unfairly imprisoned and analyze the case
Mumia Abu-JamalSlide18
A Legal Argument
1. Introduction
2. Facts and Procedure
3. Standard of Review
4. Error
5. Prejudice
6. Remedy
7. Federalize
8. Procedural BarsSlide19
Organization of Essay 2
I. Introduction
A. Hook
B. Background Information
C. Introduce the Case
D. Thesis (argument on the case)
II. Definition of a Term (i.e. “justice”)
III. State the Relevant Law
IV. Error in the Case
V. Remedy
VI. Conclusion
Reflect on the justice systemSlide20
Resources
Committee to
Protect Journalism:
https://cpj.org/imprisoned/2016.php
Foucault, Michel.
Crime and Punishment
.
Opposing
Viewpoints: LASC Library Articles and Databases