Convict-Jules Marey Research Paper

There have been rumors spreading around that a man has confessed to conducting this crime that I am still serving. This prison has deprived me not only of my youth, but of my humanity because in order to survive I needed to at least look strong and tough. Prison was very tough because being laughed at by the inmates surrounding me made me realize that no one would believe my story until these rumors had come up.

Between 1788 and 1868, as a punishment for crime, around 160 000 British and Irish convicts were transported to the Australian colonies. A decision was made to transport criminals to Australia in order for them to work. The decision was made against those who committed crimes. This was a beneficial settlement, which forced convicts to leave their country and work in Australia. The convicts, when transported to Australia, lived a very harsh and disciplined life.

In Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King writes to fellow clergymen defending his view on nonviolent protest and his actions in his protest against the racial injustices during that time. King is a reverend from the South and a Civil Rights activist. King was arrested while partaking in an anti-segregation march. Segregation laws were part of the Jim Crow Laws (any state law discriminating against black persons) arrangement of separation of races in schools, restaurants, bathrooms, and so on for blacks and whites that existed a long ways past the period of, particularly in the American South.

This paper is about the book 'Behind a Convict's Eyes' by K.C. Cerceral. This book was written by a young man who enters prison on a life sentence and describes the world around him. Life in prison is a subculture of its own, this subculture has its own society, language and cast system. The book describes incidents that have happen in prison to inmates. With this paper I will attempt to explain the way of life in a prison from an inmate's view.

In my experience of reading the text, Behind a Convicts Eyes, I have learned many things about prison life. It has in fact changed my perception of what I thought prison life was like. Prison is in fact a fight for survival, and the weaker inmates will be used and abused by the stronger population. To clarify what I mean, many of the weaker prisoners are sometimes expected to pay for protection from other inmates, or they join prison gangs to be safe. According to the text, it would appear that the inmates actually have more control over their existence than I would have thought that they do. When I use this term, I mean it in the sense that the inmates use the system to their advantage, or at

Over the course of this summer I read an awesome book called Michael Vey: Prisoner Of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans. This book is about a boy who is named Michael who lived in Idaho who has special powers. He was always picked on in school and one day he snaps and makes the bullies leave ,him alone, and watching is a girl named Taylor. Michael finds out that she has special powers like he does. They try to find out where they came from and the evil organization called Elegen tracks them while they search, they end up capturing Taylor and Michael’s mom. Now Michael and some of his friends go to Pasadena, California, where the Elgen base is located to get back Taylor and his mother.

On May 4 1920 at the school of Washington high they were preparing for their field trip to the Washington prison. The principal was trying to scare the kids so they don’t go to prison. They began the ride on the bus and talked the whole way, they finally go there and there were giant walls around the prison. All the kids wondered why they needed walls that high. Then a man named Jim walked out and smiled he said he was going to be giving them there tour.

Twenty miles northeast of california's state capital sacramento, lays a castle like structure known as folsom prison. Folsom prison is the second oldest prison in california but Folsom was the first prison in the world to have electricity do to the first hydroelectric powerhouse in California. San quien was the first prison to open in california but after 6 years the prison became over populated and corrupted. After the gold rush the state decided it was time to open a new prison. In 1873 prisoners from san quien were shipped to folsom to help build the foundation of the prison. Folsoms construction of the cell blocks started in 1878 and the prison was opened in 1880.

The transportation system that brought convicts into America was born out of new types and record levels of crime in England. (pg. 6) The crowded streets and overcrowding of the cities added to the increase in crime. England’s law enforcement and criminal justice system were ill-equipped to handle the dramatic increase in crimes committed in the city. The English penal system was in such a state of instability that new solutions had to be found for the increasing numbers of felons. The city jails were so unhealthy and disease-ridden, that many inmates died. The localities also lacked sufficient funds to care for the convicts in the already overcrowded prisons. Instead of spending money for more jails in order to accommodate more prisoners,

Since the Bureau of Prisons sold the Cibola County Correctional Center to a private company, there have been reports that the prison has accumulated the most repeat significant deficiencies in health services than any other federal prison currently in operation. The prison is set to close in October.

When you think of a story of the future, you don’t think of it in an era of the past, but this story is different. Incarceron is a tale of the distant future after ‘the years of rage’ which was a chaotic time of war. After the years of rage they decided to move to a perfect era of the past to maintain the peace. The era they chose was the 1800’s. Anything not of the era is banned from existence and everyone conformed to the rules of that time period.

The convict leasing system contain about 90% of black people as if barely no white men or women were breaking laws. The percentage of blacks was so high, because of the “Pig Laws”. Those laws had been used to target and accuse many blacks for supposedly owning money, stealing a pig, or not being able to keep a job that they were often restricted from. I don’t understand how those broken laws could had even be remotely compared to true felons that are murderers. If somebody was in the system of convicts it was even worse than the known slavery. The system was brutal that whipped, killed, hardly fed, mentally, and physically abused these people. They were even easier to replace, because of so many black people being thrown into the system. Making

English convicts, who were treated with harsh brutality, should not have been sent to Australia in the time around seventeen eighty-eight.

Based on this vital information does this bring us to the conclusion that women are simply becoming more violent and bolder as time passes by even to the point that they surpass that of men? Surely I am of the view that women did not spontaneously decide to turn to a way of crime, as a matter of fact the majority of women in prison have experienced some form of physical or sexual abuse both related and unrelated to men.

Prison is an institution for the confinement of persons convicted of criminal offenses. Throughout history, most societies have built places in which to hold persons accused of criminal acts pending some form of trial. The idea of confining persons after a trial as punishment for their crimes is relatively new.