Inmate X Case Summary

On 4/3/2016 at approximately 2055 hours we were conducting cell searches in T12B pod of Lower Buckeye Jail (LBJ) at 3250 W. Lower Buckeye Rd.

After reading the case study summary it can be seen that there are many problems with the investigation of Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz. This section focuses on how jailhouse informants were used in unethical way to get a conviction. Jailhouse informants were one of the main reasons as to why Ron and Dennis were convicted. Giannelli (2007) states, in his article that jailhouse informants should be removed from the courtroom due to their unreliability. There are many causes as to why jailhouse informants should be removed from testifying. The first, is credibility of the informant, as seen during the testimony jailhouse informant’s testimonies were fabricated. The key witness Terri Holland was going to face her third felony when she supposedly heard Ron Williamson confess of the crime. However, this testimony should have been challenged by the defense because she did not

Mr. Ming has a good jail report from Madison County Jail from jail authorities. Ming claims he dosent have any contact with family members. He completed high school in China, and worked as a laborer and various different jobs. Defendant took English classes but still speaks very little of English. He also have a background of physical and mental health. He was transferred to a mental health unit at Briggs for a psychological evaluation. He was referred there because he was starving himself, not speaking, and exhibited unusual behavior. Mr. Ming lost tons of pounds and blood pressure was

In the U.S, there is a guy named Bob and he is in prison. Bob loves to make patchwork pillows for his son since he loves Bob’s type of patchwork. This prison has high security and is rich so he has the chance to make pillows. Find out how he will try to send his pillow to his son.

Lets take a minute to delve into the demographics of incarcerated prisoners today. According to Schmalleger, in 2012, 93% of all prisoners were male, with females picking up the remaining 7%; this is a 3% increase from 1980. 35% of all prisoners are white, 38% are black, and 21% are Hispanic (Schmalleger, 2015). Approximately two-thirds of prison inmates are between the ages of 25 and 44 years old. Why are women and minorities being incarcerated? Well, to be perfectly blunt, they broke the law. The last time I took a gander at old Lady Justice, she was wearing a blindfold; she doesn't care about your color, sex. or religion, she cares about justice. But since I am sure that is not the answer anybody is looking for on here, I'll play along.

You provided clear insight of mental illness in details, the different types that are suffered by offenders incarcerated, and the factors of their behavior. In fact, aggressive behavior is learned just as a child learns to walk and talk. Some mental health individuals suffer from erratic behaviors and mood swings are able to manage their behaviors through treatment and medication while others tend to stop or refuse their medication and treatment in order to continue their rapid behavior changes and mood swings. Lastly, it is a challenging task dealing with mental health individuals, in a correctional setting, offenders could deny mental health at any time making treatment and medication difficult to manage.

Synopsis: Inmate Demetrius Hall will be locked down for 22 hours for repeatedly coming to the Deputy's Panel and asking, "Can I work?" He was told twice, no to working. Inmate Demetrius Hall decided to do it a third time.

Was the defendant’s admission to the crime a result based on promises of leniency and implied threats? Yes

On March 17, 2017 at approximately 1533 hours, Inmate Gonzalez provided an audio statement stating the following in sum and substance. Gonzalez stated, he went to the law library because he is working on his article 78 and needed some paperwork to be notarized. He stated the officer, Officer Gary described as African American, 6’ in height, about 180 lbs. in weight was harassing him and only half of his paperwork was notarized. Gonzalez asked the Officer for a stapler to staple the copies he made. Gonzalez stated, the officer gave him a broken stapler and he went back to the officer, and told him the stapler is broken. However the officer continued giving him the same broken stapler. He also requested staples and it was not provided. Gonzalez

Given that the counselor never revealed her personal counseling practice policy of not keeping individual secrets in couple’s therapy in addition to her failure to include that exception in her informed consent document, deems this to be unethical. In addition to the counselor breaking confidentiality of an individual session by stating the said content of the affair in the next couple’s session. According to the APA Standards 3.10 and 10.01, informed consent and informed consent to therapy, the counselor should inform the clients as early as feasible in the therapeutic relationship about the nature and anticipated course of therapy, which should also include personal and professional policies such as keeping individual secrets in couple’s

Are we to assume, again, that it is a representation of Washington state prisoners? How do the 2.3 million prisoners represented in chart two correlate to the 50 million displayed in chart one? It seems the authors needed to fill space so charts were included. Number three is a table depicting example numbers of cost savings within one program. It is difficult to believe that no hard numbers are available to more exactly support the author’s cost savings claims. With four pages of references any thinking person would assume that one or two of them would contain actual statistics on cost data. It would be superior to use a different program to factually support their claim than to use fictitious numbers. Again, this table is not referenced in

The second fleet began voyage in 1789/90, but turned into a massive disaster. Of the 1026 convicts that boarded the ship, 267 of the convicts were died on arrival and 124 convicts were so sick they died shortly after arrival at Sydney Cove, New South Wales. At the time second took sail, there wasn’t any available naval ships because of imminent war with France. Lieutenant Shapcote was in charge keeping the ships clean to avoid the sickness was dealt with. Shapcote was unable to do his job causing a lot of the ship to develop the sickness. The very limited conditions caused issues to the convicts’ health. The main causes are dysentery, scurvy and fever due to breathing in foul air. The second fleet

NC matrix doesn't apply an SOL and just states Alcohol related offense including sale to underage persons. Are we now using our judgement to score these cases? Should the Matrix be update to a Review score, SOL or list what is meant by Alcohol related offense? I already attempted to that and didn't get very far (see attached). With four different people scoring this client how do we keep the scoring consistent?

Law and Order: SVU, takes place in the Special Victims Unit of the NYPD with Lieutenant Olivia Benson and her Detectives Rollins, Fin, and Carisi. In season 17 episode 19, Sheltered Outcasts, Detective Carisi is undercover as a parolee at a homeless shelter with the division of sex offenders in order to solve some rape cases involving the local homeless population. In this episode, a young woman is walking back to her apartment late at night and is raped at knifepoint while her attacker whispered, “Do what I say and you won’t get hurt”. The detectives arrived at the scene and closed off the area from the public while taking to any people that would be potential witnesses. These witnesses giving eye-witness accounts from what they saw and heard

Ethical issues in a counseling practice lay the foundation of a therapist in practice. Ethics are at the center of how the counseling process functions and operates in a successful manner for the clients who seek help in such a setting. In order for the counseling profession to be ethical and hold professional recognition, there are many facets that need to be examined and outlined to make sure all counselors and practitioners are functioning at the highest level and withholding their duties required by the counseling profession. The first introduction so to speak of the area of ethics also happens to be one of the first steps in counseling, which is the informed consent. The informed consent provides the basis of what happens or will be