happens if you’re innocent and “proven” guilty? This is where the Innocence Project comes in‚ and their teams fight to prove the innocence of the wrongly convicted. A non-government organization which works on behalf of human rights is the Innocence Project. The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 and works to overturn the cases of wrongly convicted people. Their mission is to: Exonerate‚ Improve‚ Reform‚ and Support. They do this through a huge team of ambassadors‚ volunteers‚ lawyers‚ law makers
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People’s lives were changed forever when guns started being used for protection. The topic I will be arguing will be carrying a gun for protection. Some people believe this is a good thing and others think something needs to be done about it. The government should enforce a law that no citizen has the right to carry a gun for protection to ensure that all citizens are safe.Three reasons include citizen safety‚terrorism‚ and police safety. To wrap it all up‚ there are three main reasons using a gun
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release should not be an option. Proposed Constitutional Amendment We propose an amendment to prohibit the early release of violent criminal. It should read as follows: Prohibit The Early Release of Violent Criminals. Section 1. Persons convicted of committing violent crimes shall serve no less than full and complete sentences. Credit may be given only for actual time served. Time served shall be counted
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allow convicted felons to do some good with the organs that they have? Death row inmates could be a viable source of transplantable organs. To discourage exploitation of death row inmates there should be provisions made and guidelines followed‚ but nevertheless they should be allowed to donate. Supply and Demand According to the OPTN (Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network) there are 115‚720 people on the waiting list for organs; everything from kidney‚ liver‚ heart
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is trained to think that by locking criminals in a place away from society we would benefit. To even make it worse studies show that about 60 percent of Americans are against social reform because they have drawn a conclusion‚ that once a felon‚ always a felon. There are many prison inmates who come from broken homes and have mental problems that went undiagnosed and untreated. The problem is that prison’s do not try to teach inmates how to move
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be taken away. Limitations to this law can be at the work place‚ when something obscene is said‚ threats and many others. One way your rights can be limited is when you are convicted as a felon. You often loose many of the rights as a felon‚ including the right of the second amendment to own a gun. Lester Packingham was convicted as a sexual offender in 2002. He was caught using a Facebook in North Carolina. In North Carolina there is a law to prevent sexual offenders from being on sites like Facebook
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that the number of convicts being granted parole has dropped significantly‚ and the number of parole revocations has increased. Additionally‚ it has been argued that given the increased capacity to incarcerate convicted felons‚ Texas district court judges are today sentencing more violent felons to prison. (Horton‚ Turner
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the prisoners as well as their families. Many released inmates will struggle with substance abuse‚ lack of education‚ job skills and work history. My proposal is a facility with career counselors‚ vocational trainers‚ and social workers to help felons successfully reintegrate into society.
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When it come to the case of Cameron Todd Willingham I think the community and his own attorney were biased against him they believed that he was guilty of killing his children and that no evidence would sway either way because he came out relatively unharmed did not go back and get them and his children died violently painfully. The evidence that the prosecutor was the arson story that the fire department had told based on their investigations of burn patterns. In the course of the investigation
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meeting the same standards as the samples that were submitted for approval. It is an interesting topic regarding body armor purchased by civilians. Currently in Maryland‚ it is legal for civilians to purchase body armor unless they are convicted felons or convicted of drug trafficking. Gang members and terrorists such as James Holmes‚ the movie theater shooter in Aurora Colorado‚ wore body armor in the commission of crimes. This makes the jobs of police officers that much more difficult‚ and reduces
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