...Should felons have the right to vote? Do you think felons should have the right to vote? According to the constitution the Fourteenth Amendment grants to the states the authority to deny voting rights to anyone that has a criminal conviction. On paper this does seem to be pretty valid, if you break the law, things that at one time you were entitled to are now no longer allowed. In my opinion I feel that if a felon has made up for his/her mistakes then they should get another chance. For example if she/he has not got in trouble in over 10 years then maybe they learned their lesson and should be able to vote. You’re probably thinking about how even though they haven’t got in trouble in over 10 years they are still a convicted felon. I agree,...
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...Being an Ex-felon in America Jay Wainwright Axia College of University of Phoenix Being an Ex-felon in America There are many people in society who are still being treated unfairly. There is still a major disconnect from mainstream society and ex-felons. There are many people with opinions on how to help the ex-convict to become a productive member of society, except for the voice or better said by the rhetoric of the ex-felon, the one who has paid his or, her debt to society by doing harsh and terrible prison time. Yes, ex means nothing when it comes to a person from a criminal past. Everyone has already heard the rhetoric about “everyone is created equal” but, this rhetoric has been tested before and still being tested today. This is just some of the topics that will be presented in this paper. Ex-felons are underprivileged and treated unfairly because people of society are unforgiving and ex-cons are barely given any opportunities to change. Some ex-felons are underprivileged in many aspects of society due to one’s criminal past or better said mistakes. Ex-felons are not permitted to obtain a firearms license after one is convicted of a felony. One cannot conceal a firearm to protect one’s place of residence and most places ex-felons live, a firearm is needed. There are burglars everywhere but majority of them live in the same places as an ex-felon. How are ex-felons supposed to protect his or, her home...
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...Running head: EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION TOWARD FELONS EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION TOWARD FELONS AMELIA WOODEN EVEREST ONLINE UNIVERSITY According to one estimate, there are currently over 12 million felons in the United States. The Civil Rights Act requires that, where an employment policy of a state, municipal, or private employer that discriminates against criminals will have a disparate racial impact, employers must show a business necessity before automatically disqualifying criminals. Employment Discrimination Toward Felons In today’s society we have over 12 million felons in our employment epidemic. Where do we draw the line when it comes to our economy, our fellow Americans living and job opportunities for those who have criminal backgrounds wanting to make positive changes in their lives? Do we continue to use a past life against the possibility of change and let them suffer because of the choices made or do we give that chance of a life time and let them transition into a more positive life? How do we determine who is fit for employment today?, we the people of today’s workforce should be helping those ex-felons or one’s with a criminal background to transition without judgment giving them a chance to make better choices without falling back into their old habits of criminal activities. According to one estimate there are currently 12 million felons in the United States, which cannot even apply for simple jobs nor certain licenses in many states, as of...
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...I believe my thesis address the topic sentence. I state in my essay about what Im going to talk about and what two things I’m comparing and contrast. I have a thesis that supports my topic. I had to make some changes on trying to get my closings to reinforce the main point I was making. I didn’t feel that my closing was effective enough. I made a few changes like for example the flow if my essay. I didn’t have the essay flowing right to where it would make sense. I put my essay in order to where it will make sense. I want my reader to understand what I’m trying to say. My essay provides strong points on my opinions and how I feel. I had to make the examples out of my opinion. I did strong research on the web about what felons can and can’t do. My research gives me strong evidence to back up my opinions. I based my essay on my evidence. I am working on changing how I change paragraphs. I’m working on how to transitions between sentences. I did some research on how this type of essay are written. The research really helped me learn on how to write a successful essay. TurnitinOriginality Report * Processed on: 23-Sep-2013 11:10 PM CDT * ID: 355035039 * Word Count: 845 * Submitted: 1 life of a convicted felonBy Shavonne Galloway Similarity Index 0% Similarity by Source Internet Sources: 0% Publications: 0% Student Papers: N/A include quoted include bibliography exclude small matches downloadrefreshprint mode: ...
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...Do Inmates Deserve a Second Chance? Cari Adee, James Crooms, Latandra Sain, Taylor Cotter, Rodney Henry, Breanna Johnson, Latonia Pitts BCOM/275 7/20/2014 Do inmates deserve a second chance? Every time that you turn on the news you see it: School shootings, babies being left in the car by parents, people selling and doing drugs, people being murdered, raped and assaulted. According to the inter press services, in the last three decades people that are in prison have increased almost 790 percent, in the last 30 years the inmates count has risen from 25,000 to 219,000 and is still rising at a disrupting rate. The question that we need to ask ourselves is if the people that get out of prison deserve a second chance at a normal life. Everyone has a different opinion on this topic. Some people will agree that once a person serves time for the crime that they committed then they deserve a chance to start over. While others think that those who committed a crime should have thought about their actions before they did the things that they did. This paper will not just go over to the pros of why inmates deserve a second chance but the cons as well, in hopes that whoever reads this paper will make their own judgments based on all the information and not just part of the evidence. There are many pros for why a criminal deserves a second chance at life. For instance, many criminals have families that are in need of their assistance, financially, physically, and emotionally. There...
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...addressing racial inequities within our criminal justice system and its devastating collateral consequences. It is an excellent resource to use in educating, motivating, and empowering your group, organization, or community on this critical issue." - James E. Williams, Jr. One of the major reasons the country struggles with crime and imprisonment is because it continually targets the same areas of cities and the same type of people. Those who live in poor ghettos around the country including Philadelphia are targeted every day for crimes they commit. They feel as if they are targeted daily for crimes and cant get away from the police because of the way they live and where they live. The people in the ghettos are frustrated and feel as if they have no help from the law; the law is just against them. Instead of the law looking out for crime in the ghetto or becoming community helpers to build up trust and friendships they are just attacking them and putting more people in jail. The ghettos are discriminated against and brutally taken upon. They are trapped in a society that cannot change. The rate of crime in the U.S. is for every 100,000 people 743 people are incarcerated, researchers say this is...
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...For selling arms and gunpowder to Indians in 1632, Richard Hopkins was sentenced to be "whipt, & branded with a hott iron on one of his cheekes." Joseph Gatchell, convicted of blasphemy in 1684, was ordered "to stand in pillory, have his head and hand put in & have his toung drawne forth out of his mouth, & peirct through with a hott iron." When Hannah Newell pleaded guilty to adultery in 1694, the court ordered "fifteen stripes severally to be laid on upon her naked back at the Common Whipping post." Her consort, the aptly named Lambert Despair, fared worse: He was sentenced to 25 lashes "and that on the next Thursday Immediately after Lecture he stand upon the Pillory for ... a full hower with Adultery in Capitall letters written upon his brest." Corporal punishment for criminals did not vanish with the Puritans -- Delaware didn't get around to repealing it until 1972 -- but for all relevant purposes, it has been out of fashion for at least 150 years. The day is long past when the stocks had an honored place on the Boston Common, or when offenders were publicly flogged. Now we practice a more enlightened, more humane way of disciplining wrongdoers: We lock them up in cages. Imprisonment has become our penalty of choice for almost every offense in the criminal code. Commit murder; go to prison. Sell cocaine; go to prison. Kite checks; go to prison. It is an all-purpose punishment, suitable -- or so it would seem -- for crimes violent and nonviolent, motivated by hate or by...
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...ensure that America remains a nation of laws. Among other efforts, he has worked on efforts to increase penalties for felons who enter the country illegally. Ted Cruz’s views on abortion include that...
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...Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND The terms less-than-lethal, less lethal, and non-lethal are frequently and inappropriately used interchangeably. Almost anything can become lethal if used improperly or if circumstances are extremely unlucky; weapons that are considered to be of Non-Lethal force only decrease the odds of deadly injury. The court addresses the use of less lethal force in the “objective reasonableness standard,” where questions regarding excessive use of force are to be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer coping with a tense, fast-evolving situation. (Graham, Conner, 2009) This revised standard alleviates some of the “Monday morning quarterbacking” that would otherwise result and respects that officers possess sound judgment skills. (Graham, Conner, 2009) In some arrest situations and other law enforcement activities, the use of force may be required to protect the safety of the officer or the public. Occasionally, the threat to an officer or the public justifies the use of deadly force an amount of force that is likely to cause either serious bodily injury or death to another person. (Graham, Conner, 2009) When use of force is required, but deadly force may not be appropriate, law enforcement officers may employ less-lethal weapons to gain control of a subject. Less-lethal weapons are designed to induce a subject to submit or to comply with directions. These weapons give law enforcement officers the ability to protect the safety of...
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...The pill is ingested. In the next 48 hours the recipient will have cramps and bleeding. This is the least invasive way of abortion and is similar to having a miscarriage. This can occur 5-10 weeks after your pregnancy. If you don't get abort in time, there is a second way. The second way is a in-clinic procedure where a trained doctor will basically use a suction tube to empty out the uterus.This is more invasive but it is quicker than the pill....
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...rights. Is it really necessary for my pediatrician to ask me about my gun collection or if I even have one? The Second Amendment is a powerful one, but people are making it difficult for any ordinary citizen to enjoy this right. According to (Constitution.org, 10/1), the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights says, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” (Constitution.org, 11/2) says “The militia, when properly formed, is in fact the people themselves….all men capable of bearing arms.” The Second Amendment was ultimately formed so that the government cannot become too strong and overpower the people. This means anyone in America has the right to bear arms. Now I understand the need to put some regulation on this right for obvious reasons. But what I do not understand is what having a gun has to do with my children’s well baby check-ups. When reading this article Kids and Guns: Why Doctors Have a Right to Know, it say how a pediatrician told the mother of his patient the if she did not provide the information about whether or not she had any guns in the house, she was going to have to find a new pediatrician (Cohen, 09/1). It goes on to say that the government is not trying to interfere with people’s right to use and own guns, it is about doctors asking because they have good medical reason to ask. I pose the question, what constitutes a...
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...religion and many others. More and more these days they are teaching our children in school that we must practice tolerance with all groups of people. I have also heard it described as just agreeing not to disagree; so you avoid any arguments or hurt feelings. The other thing that tolerance can be tied into is that of ethical relativism. Nash defines ethical relativism as the belief that moral beliefs that are conflicting at times can be true at the same time in the same sense. (Nash, 1999). The problems with ethical relativism, is that it’s really confusing and it gives way to numerous paradoxical consequences. The biggest one is when one accepts this way of thinking, that there can be no moral code we use that is better than another. Nash put it this way “if there is no transcendent, objective grounds for moral criticism, no side can be more right than the other.” (Nash, 1999). Some of the other points made are that if we accept this belief than why do we strive to become better people, when no human is any better than his fellow man? The last part that is a big issue with people over this way of thinking is that under relativism that all the choices people make are equally good. This is very absurd and dangerous way of thinking. So basically it is telling me that Adolf Hitler, Sadamm Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden with the choices that these men made in their lives that terrorized innocent people was good. I consider...
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...Overcrowded prisons are a huge issue that have been plaguing the United States for quite a few years now. There is no certain cause for the overcrowding in our prisons, however there are many suspected reasons believed to be causing the overcrowding. In order to really begin fixing the problem, concern must be given to each and every one of these causes. Overcrowding in prisons is a serious issue because it affects millions of people in the U.S., not just prisoners, but taxpayers and prison staff as well. Illinois, in particular, is suffering from overcrowded prisons quite severely. Nearly every prison in the state is overcrowded. In order to solve this increasingly serious problem, many steps must be taken to begin prison reform and to begin living in a country in which the way we punish our criminals makes more sense and is more effective than how it is today. Everyone seems to know someone that is in prison these days, whether the person has committed a serious, violent crime, or just got caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time, they still end up in some sort of prison facility. In fact the U.S.’s rate of incarceration is 455 people per every 100,000 people (Smolowe, 1994). To put that in perspective, it is the highest rate of incarceration compared to any other country in the world. Even South Africa, our close second, only imprisons 311 people per ever 100,000 (Smolowe, 1994). Due to the harsh punishment of imprisonment for even the most minor...
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...known as probation or parole is the means of supervising felons and misdemeanants outside of a correctional facility. There is a common misconception among the American people that when a person commits a crime, then he or she will be removed from their community or society and put into a correctional facility. Foster Burke (2006). Community corrections can be very beneficial to the individuals who are placed on probation in a sense that it gives the offenders a second chance to redeem what they have done wrong in their communities. Community corrections vary from city to city and state to state. According to the textbook” community corrections were originally decentralized under the control of the local courts”. (Foster, Burke 2006). Currently community based alternatives to prison are either state run programs, or county run programs subsidized by the state. Community corrections affect society in a number of ways. There are many positive and negative effects to community corrections. An example of a positive affect is that probation cuts down on the cost of running the state prisons and county jails. In return it would save the tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars because the tax payers would not have to pay to feed and house the individuals if they were sentenced to prison or jail. My hypothesis about community corrections and their overall effectiveness within the correctional system would be that they have the ability to help and hurt society. I think as far as probation...
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...the facility focus on Substance addiction, but will help clients with other addictions such as eating disorders, gambling addictions, shopping addictions, and any other addictions that are involved with his or her substance abuse. Impact serves felons, parolees/probationers, drug court, private pay, insurance, employee referrals, and walk-in clients. Impact does not take on intern employees but offers a pro-staff training program. Individual who are reaching the end of is his or her second phase of the program is asked if he or she wants to job search or go on pro-staff. Pro-staff individuals are trained for positions of interest. Ethical dilemmas are a reoccurring event in treatment. Ethical dilemmas are common with personal relationships. Either it is friendships, family, sexual. Individuals working a program of recovery tend to work his or her program in the area he or she started treatment. The problem is everyone knows everyone and becomes one large area group. Relationships start inside the program. With Impact one of the popular treatment centers in Pasadena, counselor will have close friends, family members, and intimate partners enter treatment. Another dilemma is the clients who do catch on to recovery the first time may have to enter Impact two to three times and making personal relationships with employees. Connecting personally with clients and wanting to see each client recovery can sometimes become personal with counselor and the way he or she treats a client...
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