Most states in the United States and Australia don’t have a provision for rehabilitation or compensation for being wrongfully convicted. An innocent person can spend a surmountable amount of time in jail for a crime they did not commit and not receive proper help when exonerated. Some states in the United States offer a type of compensation money, but no state admits their mistake or even offer an apology. Almost never will a state admit wrong doing involving a wrongfully convicted case. In most cases the prison just gives 20$ and the belongings you came into prison and send you on your way. I feel a provision or a reform should be put in place to compensate the exonerated. Although no money can amount to the time spent in jail and away from family, the state should provide a sufficient amount that can help and ease a person back into society. I also believe the prosecutors should publicly admit their wrong doing. This can possibly help clear their name with the public, of the wrongfully
A woman went by herself to spend time at her mother-in-law's grave site, when suddenly she wasn't alone anymore.
In Hammurabi’s Code, we see examples of money being used to make up for a wrongdoing such as “If he put out the eye of a freed man, or break the bone of a freed man, he shall pay one [silver] mina.” (Rule # 198). There are two forms of this in the U.S. judicial system today, through bail and suing. With bail, you can pay a fine instead of going to jail to make up for your crimes. When someone sues another, the other person must pay for the wrongdoings against the person suing through financial compensation.
It was a few weeks ago when I realized I was misjudged by not only by my classmates but one of my teachers. I had been missing classes for a few weeks now… coming late in the morning to my first block and leaving in the middle of day. Everyone thought I was just leaving. Thought I was slacking, Thought they knew what was going on. Their thoughts on me changed from me being a good student to me missing school and not caring and not doing on homework assignments. I would come to school later in the day I would be scolded from people I thought were my friends, my peers, my classmates. They interrogated me, asking how was your nap? How was Netflix? How was going out for lunch? Assuming I went home during the day and relaxed. If only they knew what I was going through. If only they knew how much pain I was in. If only they knew I was spending days stuck in a doctor’s office. Getting MRI’s done. Getting excessive amounts of blood drawn. Going through hard tests. If only they truly looked at me and realized my life is being turned around. I never shared with my teacher or classmates why I was
State governments should provide compensation to the wrongfully convicted because it is their system that wasted the lives and took everything from these people. In “Reparations/Compensation for the Wrongfully Convicted: Overview”, by Tsin Yen Koh, we see the early process of compensation laws and its history followed by our current laws and its different ways of registering for these reparations. The article first tells about how people began to notice wrongful convictions after a man first looked into one of these cases. Then, people noticed the wide range of mistaken sentences and began to use DNA tests to support these claims. After the majority of these inmates had the same wrongful story, George W. Bush passed a law that would help with
As a benefit of reading the post, “hoodwinked” is the new word in my vocabulary. To expand the search without duplicating the articles chosen by other students, substituting the key words with the synonyms might be helpful. As an example, while searching for the articles about human trafficking, the use of “trafficking in person” or “forced labor” as the key words will provide more relevant articles. To avoid the risk of choosing the article used by someone else, it is usually helpful to skip the top links and browse through the articles below the top twenty results. Thank you for the post.
Last December Police in Italy found 7000 tons of phony olive oil headed for supermarkets, and stores all over the world(Whitaker). The agricultural mafia or agromafia of Italy has taken over the food industry in Italy, and many of the traditional Italian foods that people and tourists eat are phony. Tom Mueller, a journalist who has lived in Italy for twenty years, and routinely speaks with food investigators, and producers said, “Easily half of the bottles that are sold as extra virgin in Italian supermarkets do not reach the legal grades for extra virgin oil”(Whitaker). This information could not have been found without muckraking, and people all over the world would still be paying great amounts of money for adulterated italian cuisine.
Trolling brutally sabotage the victims’ life long achievements. Trolls viciously post and spread rumors or secrets about victims destroying every parts of their lives. Trolls argue that victims do not need to see the posts or comments. The victims can simply log off from social network services, or close the accounts if necessary.
Many time we lie because we don’t want to hurt or disappoint people when in return you are hurting yourself . I understand your action and have done the same myself. The statement you made we need to take a deeper look at the decisions that we make on daily basis is so true. Many time are white lie affect people. For , example if I call in sick and have no substitute to cover my class this cause a great effect on my students and coworker. When it would have been better to plan for a day off.
The goal of state compensation statutes is to provide a consistent, dependable approach to financial assistance. The structure consists of a wrongfully convicted individual receiving a specific amount of money for every year that he or she was imprisoned, and these statutes are meant to be blind to factors such as gender, race, political connections, and visibility of the case. The problem currently, however, is that there are still 18 states that do not have any form of compensation statute in place, such was the case of Lamonte McIntyre, and many more make it difficult for exonerees to actually quality for the benefits of their state’s statute. The federal government recognizes the need for uniform compensation, as demonstrated by its passing
There are different levels of criminal offenses that you can be charged with. Here is a quick guide to the different levels of criminal offense that one could be charged with.
A misdemeanor is defined as a lesser criminal act that is less severe than a felony and more severe than a regulatory offense. A misdemeanor is the United States of America is punishable by fines, probation, community service and up to twelve months incarceration. Misdemeanors are often classified into several categories based on the severity of the crime. This category system usually has dedicated punishments.
Avoid believing in hearsay and myth will have a far reaching impact on transforming our own behaviors (specially our character of believing in hearsay and myth and looking for shortcut, magical cure instead of understanding and practicing Herbs Meditation.) and the present social health care system, and those irresponsible media, medical, non-medical doctors, the food industry which are presently health hostile foe, into health friendly ally.
There are those who are behind bars who really shouldn’t; they are innocent, but the problem is that the legal system has found them guilty. Thanks to the availability of DNA testing there are now those getting appeals years later, unfortunately this can result in “more than 14 years behind bars. [The harsh reality is that] prison life and the complete loss of freedom[,] are only compounded by the feelings of what might have been” (Innocence Project, 2015); if they had not been wrongfully convicted. The Government of Canada has set up restitution for those who have gone through these situations, but restitution can only provide a reasonable amount of money towards the value of human life that has been taken away after being wrongfully found
By definition defamation is the act of injuring someone’s character or reputation by false statements. Cases of defamation are only considered attacks on if they are made in a vindictive or malicious manner. The person’s name is considered not only personal but proprietary right of reputation. Defamation is synonymous with the words libel and slander in terms of law. Defamation is a term that encompasses both libel and slander. Libel is a term used to describe visual defamation; as in newspaper articles or misleading pictures. Slander describes defamation that you can hear, not see. It is mostly oral statements that tarnish someone’s reputation.