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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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Slide1

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