Current Publications on
The Prison System
and the
Role of Sentencing
By: Bartek Sliwa
Course: Law 12
Period: 4
Date: April 05/01
Roles of Sentencing
“Little man gets Life”
When Lionel take was only Twelve years old he killed a young girl named Tiffany Eunice. His Defense was that it was just “boyish horseplay” that just didn’t work out for him. Lionel Tate was sentenced to life in prison. He could have gotten three years, on a plea bargain, but his mother said no. Why did she say no? Did she think that the boyish horseplay story would work and he would get off completely? But it didn’t and he got life. His only chance is to get a clemency from his governor, this will probably happen because all the people involved are thinking twice about the decision to give him life. Even a prosecutor said he would support a bid for clemency. I don’t understand this because why do they push for maximum and after getting it they go soft and support a lesser punishment.
Could the fact that Lionel Tate was black and his victim white have some thing to do with the verdict to give him life? I think so, and now they are thinking about giving him a lighter sentence because of public pressure. Only five per cent of the American population is African-American but they make up over 50 percent of the prison population. Now to me and my college this suggests that the American legal system is still highly influenced by racial tensions. Its like saying goes “The tree was cut down, but its roots run deep.”
The Term Paper on Life in the Prison System
Connor Moroney Mr. Heitz College Writing 6 May 2013 Life in the Prison System Prison is a place that nobody wants to be. Its a place which can hold anyone who has committed a crime no matter how serious. There are many different crimes that can land you in prison and unfortunately so many people have committed these crimes that our prisons are becoming overpopulated. These prisons all have ...
Canadian Prison System
“Not a country club”
Most Canadians have the impression that the prison system in Canada is too soft on dangerous criminal offenders, releasing them too quickly into society, with out anything being accomplished in reforming. Then they commit more offences and return to prison. “Canadians hold strong views about our prisons, but know profoundly little about them.”
“But it’s also an intriguing always troubling world we rarely get a glimpse of.”
Most Canadian prisons are quit small in the amount of prisoners they can hold which is only about 450 appose to the massive 3,000-person prisons in America. This reflects on the quality of our prisons, even though they still aren’t that great they are far better than those of our neighbors to the south because they are easier to control and safer. But they are still grim places where few people would want to stay. The cells are “…cluttered and Closter phobic…. a greasy concrete cube the size of a small bathroom…. no its not pleasant.” The Canadian prison system is quit efficient with only 70 per cent of the prisoners repeating criminal activities and returning to prison.
I don’t think that the prison system is too soft on the treatment of its prisoners while they are imprison. Even though they did commit crimes against society and the judicial system should filtered them out of society because they aren’t able to produce any thing to further mankind, but only to work against him in their evil ways. They should still be give a chance to change. The time the inmate spends in prison can be used more productively in re-education, forced labor and other such activities. But I do believe that the system is too soft on sentencing, which is the key factor on this subject. For those who are beyond reform and/or would usually get life imprisonment should instead be dealt with in a swift and direct manner. They should be executed with extreme prodigious, with little or no mercy. In order to keep prison population lower, capital punishment should be taken in to higher account.
The Term Paper on History Of The American Prison System
The history of U.S. prisons from the late 1700s to the late 1800s was marked by a shift from a penitentiary system primarily concerned with rehabilitation to one concerned more with warehousing prisoners. The failure of reform minded wardens to justify rehabilitation caused state legislatures to set economic profitability as the new goal for prisons. This resulted in a worsening of prison ...
List of Articles
PublicationTitle of Article Title of Article Date of Publication Brief Description
Winipeg Free Press Life term too harsh? June 26/1990 guy crashes a car and kills three people
Maclean’s The system Failed us April 27/1992 Two people wrongfully acused
Maclean’s Questionable Justice March 03/2001 Innocent man spends 23 years in jail
Maclean’s A triumpn of faith April 27/1992 A mothers struggle for justice
Globe and Mail man boated in to confession June 29/1994 A junky I stricked in to confessing his crimes
News Week Little man gets life March 19/2001 A boy gets life for killing a girl
The Daily News Young offenders getting tough March 05/2001 No onle likes young offenders act
Vancouver Sun Nazi gets 12 years April 4/2001 Ss member is caught for war crimes
Maclean’s Juvenile Justice October 10/1993 Teenager kills a store owner and robs him
