Due March 4, 2016 by 3:30 pm:
Topic: Criminal Justice System- choose from articles on the next pages
Directions:
In complete sentences and in your own words, answer the following questions on my blog: Who is the article about? Where did the event happen? When did the event happen? What is the article about? What is your opinion of this article?
New format:
You must write this in a paragraph with a minimum of 8 sentences. You should focus the bulk of your paragraph summarizing what the article is about in your own words.
Provide a proper MLA citation of the article.
Author’s Last name, First name. “Title of Document.” Page or site name. Document date. Full web address (Date of access)
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Dohms, Elizabeth. “U.S. Supreme Court Could Determine Marriage Rights in Wisconsin.” The Chippewa Herald. 9 Feb 2014. http://chippewa.com/news/local/u-s-supreme-court-could-determine-marriage-rights-in-wisconsin/article_c160db9d-e37e-54a7-a128-5ee809d8b073.html (9 Feb 2014)
LIST OF ARTICLES YOU MAY USE:
Current event articles to choose from:
Criminal Justice Reforms
Incarceration Nations
How Much Should a University Have to Reveal About a Sexual-Assault Case?
NYS Court of Appeals say police lies went too far
Connecticut becomes latest state to consider changing rules on witness identification evidence
Daniella Henry: Vermont is ready for wrongful conviction reforms
Study Puts Exonerations at Record Level in U.S.
CCA Denies DNA Testing in Swearingen Case
Justice Department about to free 6,000 prisoners
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ReplyDeleteThis article is about how twenty states in the United States of America are going against the Defense of Marriage Act. They aren't sure if they want to allow gay marriage in their state and this problem is mainly going around the state of Wisconsin. Though it is also going around many other states as well. Attorney's reasoning's during court weren't problematic and even in states that allow gay marriage. Heavy amounts of questions are still being asked to couples and the law. Two gay couples in court were married, but didn't get their equal rights in Wisconsin. Due to all these conflicts happening, its becoming quite evident that this problem will eventually be held in Supreme Court. Reasons that are causing this problem is public acceptance and political divide, such as democrats and the republicans view. To conclude, all gays want is to be able to love, just like a straight couple and and have their natural rights.
ReplyDeleteDohms, Elizabeth. "Us Supreme Court could determine marriage rights in Wisconsin." The Chippewa Herald. 9 Feb 2014.http://chippewa.com/news/local/u-s-supreme-court-could-determine-marriage-rights-in-wisconsin/article_c160db9d-e37e-54a7-a128-5ee809d8b073.html (2 Mar 2016)
ReplyDeleteMan cleared of murder after 19 years in prison.In this article a man name sabein c. burgess had been convicted of killing his girlfriend. after spending ywo years in prison another man confessed to carrying out the killing with a notorious hit man. this event took place in baltimore. Sabein was arrested in 1995 but the man who confessed was arrested in 2014. i think they should have never arrested Sabein if they did not have evidence to show that he did the crime. they should have looked more into the evidence to really be sure that someone did the crime.
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ReplyDeleteSabien Burgess was accused and convicted of murder. He sat in jail for almost 2 decades until a man confessed that he was the murderer. Burgess says that their is no compensation big enough for the time taken out of his life. He feels this way because he was imprisoned for his daughter's whole life. The police of Baltimore made a faulty investigation leading to Burgesses incarceration. The police believed that he murdered his girlfriend in her home and the gun residue on his hands meant he killed her. Which was false and after a man confessed to murdering her. His conviction took place in 1995, now he is a free man.
ReplyDeleteGeorge, Justin. "Man freed after 19 years for murder sues Baltimore police." The Baltimore Sun. (25 Mar 15). http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-police-lawsuit-20150325-story.html (3 Mar 2016)
Duncan Ian 2014 http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2014-02-21/news/bs-md-ci-murder-conviction-challenge-20140221_1_burgess-new-trial-residue
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ReplyDeleteIn this article Sabien Burgess's record is being expunged for murder. Sabien is a father who unfortunately missed his daughter's. This event happened in Baltimore City. Burgess's was in jail for 19 years for the accusation of murder. He later decides that he wants to sue the Baltimore police.I think that this article is important because of the fact people are continually being miss accused. I also think that he should be reconciled. This man missed 19 years of his daughters life."Man Freed after 19 Years for Murder Sues Baltimore Police." Baltimoresun.com. N.p., n.d.http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-police-lawsuit-20150325-story.html. 03 Mar. 2016.
ReplyDeleteSari Horwitz.Justice Department about to free 6,000 prisoners.Philly.com. Oct,7,2015.http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20151007_Justice_Department_about_to_free_6_000_prisoners.html.(October,7,2015).
ReplyDeleteThe justice Department are about to release prisoners rounding to 6,000. For prisoners that were arrested for the last 3decades are to be released. One third are to be foreign and they will be deported instead of being in jail. Over 80,000 are supposed to be released with in a year with president Barack Obama's help. "The Sentencing Commission voted unanimously for the reduction last year after holding two public hearings". The policy of this is called "Drugs minus Two."
Sahmeer Washington
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Civics
March 4, 2016
This article is about inmates being released from prison. On July 16, 2015, President Barack Obama visited the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma. While Obama was at the prison, he talked to the prisoners so they could change their ways in the outside world. About 6,000 prisoners were set to be released between October 30th and November 2nd. Some of the prisoners have been sent to halfway homes and and home confinement. Drug offenders were the most common prisoners that was being released and the Justice Department is supposedly set to release over 80,000 prisoners. The Sentencing Commission estimated that 8,550 inmates would be eligible to be set free between Novemeber 1, 2016. The guidelines rounded up a total of 100,000 prisoners to have an early release as a first step process to releasing inmates group by group until further notice.
Horwitz, Sari. "Justice Department about to free 6,000 prisoners." Philly.com. 7 Oct 2015.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20151007_Justice_Department_about_to_free_6_000_prisoners.html#u7bIHCgEs467C6B8.99 (7 Oct 2015)
Sabein C. Burgess spent two decades in prison. He was convicted for allegedly killing his girlfriend. The murder looked like the result of a bad fight between couples. When police arrived they found Burgess with Dyson's body in the basement where they lived. They claim his hands covered with blood. He also supposedly had gun powder on his hand making him a clear suspect. It took years for the person’s son to come forward and tell the truth. The son apparently was witnessed it. So he is an acceptable witness. Burgess is now out of jail and enjoying his time with family.
ReplyDeleteDucan, Ian. "Man Cleared of Murder after 19 Years in Prison." Tribunedigital-baltimoresun. The Baltimore Sun, 21 Feb. 2014. Web. 03 Mar. 2016. .
This article is about incarceration rates in nine different countries, including South Africa, Uganda, Brazil and Jamaica. Baz Dreisinger Is a writer, English professor at Harvard, and a producer for documentaries. In 2014 she went to these places, based on their high incarceration rate. She wants to find out why the United States has the highest prison rate in the world. Additionally, Dreisinger wants to see if the reason for these rising statistics differs between race, or any other factors involved. The activities are done in classrooms to stimulate their mind during the long time in prison. She also leads theater classes, free- write sessions,and has icebreaker. That way everyone will know each other, before starting. Baz says she could not believe how smart they all were. The information told to her, opened her eyes to information she was blinded to. Even going as far to say it is not fair prisoners are held in prison for a long time. All contact is cut off from the outside, making it hard further their educations. She states “I find my own cluelessness deeply moving.” This quote means people are ignorant, and do not know the pain/ struggle people go through in jail. Dreisinger wants people to know, you should not judge them when they get out of prison. They already did the time for the crime committed, and should be forgiven. My opinion of the article is that Baz Dreisinger work should not be publicized. There are black people who have visited prisons, and have programs that give opportunities to earn a high school diploma, while being in the system. Baz does nothing to help previously incarcerated individuals when out of jail. Her main focus is trying to understand why incarceration is so high? She does not have to go all over the world to find the answer, simply look it up. Dreisinger even says that she did not expect the prisoner to be smart. To me that sound like she was expecting them to be dumb, because they are in a cell. Moreover, she states that “unfortunate, too familiar white-savior-of-black-souls dynamic”. This statement sounds racist, because she thinks she is saving another black person. Feeding into the stereotypes most black people are jailbirds. It seems like when someone white does something, they are given more credit, than if a black person did the same thing.
ReplyDeleteSuk, Jeannie. "‘Incarceration Nations,’ by Baz Dreisinger." The New York Times. The New York Times, 20 Feb. 2016. Web. 03 Mar. 2016. .
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ReplyDeleteThis article about people who have been wrongly convicted for crimes, getting compensated when they are released from prison. Michael Hansen and Koua Fong Lee were both victims of being wrongly accused. Both sat in prison for crimes that they did not commit and missed out on a lot of time that could have been spent with family. Because of this, Senator Ron Latz and Representative John Lesch are pushing the legislation to compensation other people like the men mentioned above. Legislation would provide the wrongly accused with $700,000, medical care and help with finding a job. Which are all things that other wrongly accused people have not received. People being wrongly accused has been going on for many years throughout the United States. I think that these people should be compensated because they have sat and are sitting in jail for things that they did not do, which is taking time from their lives.
ReplyDeleteChapman, Reg. "Lawmakers Working To Get Compensation For The Wrongfully Imprisoned." CBS. 28 Jan, 2014. http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/01/28/lawmakers-working-to-get-compensation-for-the-wrongfully-imprisoned/ (4 Mar 2016)
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ReplyDeleteMs. Rachael Sheehan
Civics
04 March 2016
Mass Incarceration
This article is about mass incarceration being very well known in the United States with criminal justice. The United States is the world's top jailer, meaning that the United States jails the most people in the world. A woman named Baz Dreisinger, who is a English professor, journalist, and documentary producer, who travels to nine countries to meet with prisoners led to “Incarceration Nations.” She goes to the countries in quest for answers on American criminal punishment by having a structured encounter with foreign prisoners in a situ. When she sits down with those prisoners, she is shocked by the intelligence of the prisoners as well as their humanity. She went on to say that they are in a horrible position and she is very clueless. She does not know how to feel at all about the position the prisoners are in. After her travels, she feels alienated, alone, but connected with the prisoners. There must be a reform on the criminal justice incarceration, as it is long overdue and there must be a change in this sometime soon.
Suk, Jeannie. “ ‘Incarceration Nations’ by Baz Dreisinger.” The New York Times. 20 February 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/books/review/incarceration-nations-by-baz-dreisinger.html (3 March 2016)
This article is about the rape going on in university campuses, and the ways to address this issue. Their was a "Dear Colleague" letter that is sent to every college and university in american which, is to protect the students sexual violence. If schools did not take action on this letter or proper steps then, they would lose millions of dollars out of federal fundings. The Title IX violations were underdetermine by a law called, the federal education Rights and Privacy Act which keeps education records from releasing. The procedures for handling accusations varys from university to university. This act is specifically to prevent rape in universities but cant completely stop it. Some schools say they have never got money tooken out for giving education records. Some things won't be perfect but its worth a try.
ReplyDeleteKrakauer, jon. "How Much Should a University Have to Reveal About a Sexual-Assault Csae?" The New York Times Magazine. 21 January 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/20/magazine/how-much-should-a-university-have-to-reveal-about-a-sexual-assault-case.html?_r=0 (3 March 2016)
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ReplyDeleteMs. Rachael Sheehan
Civics
04 March 2016
NYS Court Of Appeals Say that Police Lies went too Far.
This article is about Adrian Thomas & the police. Adrian was convicted of murdering his 4-month old son, Matthew. In the state court of New York, Adrian attorney posted a question asking, “ when is it right for the police to lie?”. When Adrian was arrested the police had asked him multiple question on the behalf of his son, the problem is that the police lied to get their answers for Adrian. They told him that his son had a chance of living if he would confess to how he got an head trauma. What the police forgot to tell him is that his son was already dead. In this case, one can see that the police lies & interrogation went too far. Although they got the answers that they were looking for, they violated his right of remaining silent and not incriminate himself. This does not make the killing of his child ok but it only proves how deceiving & dishonest some cops are.
Citation:"NYS Court of Appeals Say Police Lies Went Too Far (Update)." NYS Court of Appeals Say Police Lies Went Too Far (Update). Recordstaffnewsroom@troprecords.com with Wire Support, 2014http://www.oneidadispatch.com/general-news/20140221/nys-court-of-appeals-say-police-lies-went-too-far-update.03 Mar. 2016.
Adrian Thomas was incarcerated in 2009 because of second degree murder charges against his son Matthew. His defense team questioned "when is it ok for the police to lie?" Police were interrogating Thomas and said that his son could be able to survive if he tells them how he got injured. Little did Thomas know, his son had already passed. This event happened in Albany, NY in 2009. They kept trying to persuade Thomas to tell them what happened so that his son would have a chance of living, with them knowing he was dead. They were just trying to get information. In a vote, the court decided to throw out that case and bring up a new one. Four hours into Thomas's interrogation, he said that ten or fifteen days earlier, he dropped his son into his crib and he hit his head pretty hard. Thomas has been in prison since 2009. He was sentenced to 25 to life. This article just sounds like a really major accident, but also there is a possibility that it could not have been, noticing that the doctor said the baby being dropped wouldn't make an injury that serious.
ReplyDelete"NYS Court of Appeals Say Police Lies Went Too Far (Update)." Http://www.oneidadispatch.com/general-news/20140221/nys-court-of-appeals-say-police-lies-went-too-far-update. Record Staff Newsroom @troyrecord.com, 2016. Web. 4 Mar. 2016.
In Washington 6,000 inmates was set to be released In the year of 2015 6,000 were. More than half of the inmates were sent to halfway houses before being released. The rest of the inmates were were deported back to their country. Their plan was to have them set free by November 1st, 2016. I believe this act was very important because violations of their 8th amendment rights were abused. This made prisons more crowed. People who could have really did crimes could've took their spot instead of being crowded.
ReplyDelete"Justice Department about to Free 6,000 Prisoners." Philly.com. Sari Horwitz, 7 Mar. 2015. Web. 03 Mar. 2016.
This article is called Faith strong in man Freed after 22 years for wrongful conviction.This article perched on February 10,2014. Antonio Yarbourgh was wrongfully convicted for the murder of his mother, sister, and a friend, in 1992. This event occurred in Brooklyn, New York.This event happened in June 18,1992. Antonio Yarbourgh was wrongfully convicted for the murder of his mother, sister, and a friend, in 1992, when he was only 17. He was sentenced to 75-years-to-life and sent to the notorious Super Max prison at Attica. But only spent 22 years. Yarbourgh was based on a 15 year old boy named Sharrif Wilson's confession. They didn't even try to find other evidence or suspects, they just wanted a confession out of the two teenagers. I think this is wrong for the police to just make them confuse to a crime they didn't commit. And I also think it's wrong for them to take that long them to realize that the didn't actually do it. This makes me think about a movie I saw on Life time movie network. There was a girl that was convicted of a murder, just based off of her confession. But the police was also harassing her, just like Wilson.
ReplyDeleteBolsinger, Andrew." Faith Strong in Man Freed After 22 years for Wrongful Conviction".Trice Edney Wire News.Feb 10.http://www.triceedneywire.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3829:faith-strong-in-man-freed-after-22-years-for-wrongful-conviction-by-andrew-scot-bolsinger. March 4.
ReplyDeleteThis article is about for the second time in nearly 20 years, Joan Purser-Gennace took the witness stand in a Queens courtroom, but this time her testimony was starkly different: Much of what she testified to two decades ago words that helped convict a man of a murder was a lie, she said, spoon-fed to her by police detectives. The detectives told her what they want her to say , and they wanted her to say it.The murder didn’t get re-examination of the murder and the behavior of the police until 20 years later. This violated many rights in criminal justice system. The court had to redo the trail , because it’s the only fair thing to do. This event also caused for another instigation of why the police did this. More importantly why did Joan finally confessed. She claims that the truth would set her free. This event shows how the police could multiplate the criminal justice system.
Nir, Sarah Maslin. "Saying Police Fed ‘Lies,’ Witness to ’94 Murder Recants." The New York Times. The New York Times, 06 Jan. 2014. Web. 04 Mar. 2016.
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ReplyDeleteAmazing feats for U.S.A has its bad side facts also. Astronaut Scott Kelly has been dealing with the side affects for over a year. Since Scott went to space, his height decreased. He has been suffering with these side effects for over a year. Now that its been a year, he is going back to his normal life. His height I\went back to normal. Also he is becoming his normal weight. Scott is 52 and living life like he should. He also back to the same measurements as his twin.
"Scott Kelly Shrinks after Return to Earth." CNN. Cable News Network, n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2016.
Baz Dreisinger is a writer, English professor, and journalist. Baz traveled around the world to nine different to learn about their prison to help people in America. Baz does this to better American prisons and she also meets with the prisoners creative classes and theater workshops. When she gets back to America she teaches prisoners have get jobs. Baz founded a program called the prion College pipeline program. The program gives prisoners college classes, and then when they get out they go to the City University to get a degree. I think this is a great thing to do for people you do not know because some prisoners do not have rights.
ReplyDeleteSuk, Jeannie. "‘Incarceration Nations,’ by Baz Dreisinger." The New York Times. The New York Times, 20 Feb. 2016. Web. 04 Mar. 2016.