Another article I would like to discuss is from People magazine written by Jeff Truesdell, Neighbors of Making a Murderer's Steven Avery Speak Out About His Guilt or Innocence: 'Those of Us Who Live Here Know He's Guilty.’ In this article, Jeff Truesdell interviewed locals of Manitowoc County; Steven Avery’s neighbors. The neighbors paint an incredibly different picture than what is provided in Making a Murderer. The neighbors discuss how much safer they felt now that Steven Avery was back in jail, and how when he was released the first time they believed something strange happened. The general consensus of his neighbors was that he was guilty for the assault he was in jail for originally, and for the crimes he is in jail for now. One neighbor…
Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, the co-founders of the Innocence Project, which works to exonerate those who were wrongly convicted and fights for equality in the criminal justice system, are a social entrepreneurial unit I identify with. Following the release of a study establishing that 70% of wrongful convictions were the results of incorrect eyewitness reports, Neufeld and Scheck took it upon themselves to help the lives of those falsely identified and imprisoned, who were too poor or oppressed by the bias of the justice system to unbury themselves from their judicial graves. I find this especially important because those who are already oppressed in our society are silenced further with a system that is supposed to protect and give justice…
A 1946 German Film called, in English, “The Murderers are Among Us” presents a black and white film that is about learning to deal with the past. For a person, they can either let the past destroy them and take away their future, or they can work through the past and move on to their future. This story is about love that has formed between two differently individuals and how they dealt with their past to move on with their future.…
A healthy diet is extremely important during your time at college. The freshman 15 can make a negative impact on your life if you do not eat properly. Make sure you are careful about your intake. Stay away from fast food, junk food and other terrible choices. These foods are quick and easy, but they are very bad for you.…
Racial profiling and discrimination against someone’s race occurs every day in America. This happens continuously within the justice system and goes unnoticed. In the book Picking Cotton, Ronald Cotton was accused of rape and was incarcerated for 10 and a half years in North Carolina, even though he was innocent. Ronald Cotton is not the only one who has faced racism, Darryl Hunt was only 19 when was incarcerated for 20 years for being wrongfully accused of rape and murder. So why where these innocent men imprisoned?--because of their race, criminal background, false accusations and white supremacy in the U.S. criminal justice system.…
On a daily basis you see minorities taking punishment for things they didn’t do, women blamed by men for their own issues, and those who are different being taken as the source of trouble in a community. People will believe any accusations made on someone of lower status by someone higher up so easily, often without any clear reasoning, that those of power use this to a level of abuse. This social issue is one that we all know too well. When people of a high reputation want to protect it, they do it by pinning blame on the…
In the “Kafka’s fantasy of punishment”, Author Kaiser reveals and scrutinizes more insightfully the significant meaning of the metamorphosis of Gregor Samsa. In Kaiser’s point of view, Gregor’s transformation is a “self-punishment for his earlier competitive striving aimed against his father.” His unintentional emotions toward his father are beyond hatred, which is interpreted by Kaiser as an oedipal jealousy intended for the mother. However, that is not the manifest struggle between the son and father. It is Gregor’s bold ambition costs him to suffer. Before his catastrophic metamorphosis, the son takes up the position as head of the family as a result of business failure of his father. He begins to work assiduously to sustain the whole family;…
Many black men and women were being falsely accused of crimes that they did not commit…
There are more and more cases of wrongfully convicted African Americans occurring nowadays. According to National Registry of Exonerations of the United States, 58 people were exonerated in 2015, more than two thirds were minorities, including half who were African Americans. 22 cases according to the same source are cases of false confessions. Moreover, this exoneration cases include false confessions under police oppression or African American wrongfully accused by white people. Racist-oriented criminal justice system and society, socioeconomic factors as high poverty percentage, disadvantaged neighborhood – all of these factors are playing crucial role in African Americans’ being put in prison more often today. Most of these factors are…
People are being falsely accused for something that they did not do. Innocent people are being punished for absolutely doing nothing wrong. Furthermore, people don’t need to be punished unless there is a hundred percent proof that they did it. People are being imprisoned, killed, and even tortured for being innocent. People’s lives are just going to waste. In the crucible by Arthur Miller people 400 years ago are being accused of being witches. In reality, they are not and innocent people are getting the punishment. Moreover, a person of the name George Allen was accused of murdering and raping a woman named Mary Bell. It is now 2016, and people are still being imprisoned simply because of police misconduct.…
Theories regarding Punishment and Rehabilitation have evolved with the civilization of man. There was a time in history when the rights of the accused were not considered when rendering punishments. Rehabilitation for offenders was unheard of. ( Katz & Walker,2008) noted “A tradition of vigilantism persisted well into the twentieth century and represented some of the worst aspects of American criminal justice. People just killed others whom they did not like, or mobs would drive them out of town. The lynching of African Americans was used to maintain the system of racial segregation in the South”. An offender was totally without rights and at the mercy of only his accusers.…
During the trials of the Scottsboro Boys, multiple events of racism occurred. A newspaper placed a negative shadow over the boys by calling them Negros, and asserting that the girls identified them as their rapists. The boys were sent to a prison that was condemned for whites over 2 years prior. Blacks over excluded from jury rolls providing unfavorable juries. It was noted in one case that a jury was laughing as it brought in the verdict after the liberating only 5 minutes. At one point, the jury was told not one white woman in Alabama would consent to sex with a black. Finally, in general one is presumed innocent until found. Unfortunately for the Scottsboro Boys the reverse of that was true.…
Imagine being guilty without having done anything to deserve this title. This is a reality for many African Americans who face discrimination simply because of the color of their skin. In the article, “Hounding the Innocent,” Bob Herbert states, “Most Americans have no idea of the extent of the race-based profiling that is carried out by law-enforcement officials and the demoralizing effect it has on its victims.” Herbert is only half right. Most White Americans “have no idea,” about how much racial profiling is actually going on. Most non-White Americans are unaware of how often profiling happens. Racial profiling is a bigger problem than most of us realize because authority often abuses their power.…
"...Until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." These powerful words were uttered by Martin Luther King in the midst of the racial unrest in the 1960 's. During this time period many people of the black race were affected with discrimination of all sorts. Now- a -days, crimes once driven solely by hatred for one 's race now stem from opposition to one 's religion, gender, disability, or sexual orientation. These crimes known as "hate crimes" can be prevented. Solving this problem is not impossible, but something that can unite us as a country.…
Everyone has rights. A man working in a factory, a mother taking care of her children, a girl attending college, a boy playing football, they all have rights, but what about criminals? Yes, everyone has rights. What happened when those rights are violated? Who does a criminal have to turn to? Or even who will believe them? Inmate on inmate victimization is not uncommon especially in physical abuse, but what about the sexual abuse? And what about when it is not just inmate on inmate victimization, what if it is guard on inmate victimization? This is not right, not only are most inmates stripped down to their basic rights; there are some that are even having those torn away from them as well. These are problems that have not been addressed until recently and still lacking solid solutions. Although much has been done to prevent abuse, especially sexual abuse, there is still not much to be done until after the fact.…