In the movie Lockdown created in 2000 by John Luessenhop tells a story of three friends wrongful convicted and sent to prison and the problems they deal with while incarnated. In the beginning of the movie Avery Montgomery which is the main chartartcer is taking time off from college to spend time with his girlfriend Krista , and help raise their young son. Though the movieportray the possibility to be a black professional swimmers to be rare, Avery is skilled to swim at a championship level, so when he has an remarkable win he gets offered a scholarship. Cashmere is also an important character that is Avery 's best friends since childhood. Though their personalities and lifestyles are very different, for instance Avery tries to …show more content…
Later that day after he commits an attempted robbery where he shoots and kills a young girl at a drive through, then wipes off the gun and throws it into the backseat of Cashmere 's convertible when he is not there. After the swim meet, Cashmere and Dre, takes Avery out to celebrate his big win with them but he does not want to go instead he wants to spend time with Krista. But, she tells him to go have fun with his friends so he changes
his mind and they get in the car. During the car ride, Dre, who is riding in the backseat, finds the gun, and ask Cashmere about violating their unwritten rule. But Cashmere does not know what he is referring to, so the three men begin arguing about the gun to find out they have a strange gun, in their possession and they have no idea where it came from or what it could have been used for. Not focusing because they were arguing over how to get rid of the gun some cops spotted them because Cashmere car looks very similar to Broadway 's car that had been seen at murder earlier that day. The cops pulled them over. One of cops was a female officer; she orders them out of the car at gunpoint, which they submit to, but in instant Cashmere 's pitbull runs toward the officer who kills him in self-defense. Cashmere pulls out his gun in anger at the loss of his dog, and points it at the officer only to be shot and knocked down. After being wrongfully convicted, the three are sent to the same medium security prison while serving a
after removing the chip from the back of her phone, she hunts down and tracks her alt. After following her alt into an alley, she sees that her alt hired a striker to kill her. She gets shot in the left shoulder and only narrowly escapes thanks to chord scaring them off. After Chord patches up her shoulder, she runs away from him again, but this time, she goes to another striker job. After killing the target, she finds an empty room and sleeps there for a while until her alt’s striker found her and tried to get the jump on her. After getting outsmarted by West, she kills him and runs away to her alt’s house. When she gets there, she finds out that the striker that she killed was her alt’s boyfriend and that the next day, her alt was going to attack Chord. She immediately runs to chord’s house and tells him about her alt’s plans, only to find that he knew all along. The next morning she gives him sleeping pills and sets up a trap for her alt to fall into. When she arrives at Chord’s house, she shoots and misses by a fraction of an inch. She runs over to Chord’s house, after leaving him
In the Article Locked Away, Patricia Smith argues that jail are being filled with inmates that should not be there. People are being put away for little crimes that should not be enforced. People should not be put away for stealing a candy bar for the fifth time. Any crime that is constantly committed should be informed. When someone believes that they can get away with little petty stuff they will eventually believe they can get away with something bigger. “A california man with five prior convictions was sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing a slice of pepperoni pizza”(Smith). Not all crimes should be sentenced to 25 years after a third convection. Luckily the State is realising what they are doing is wrong and have realised 6,000
She finds out that the man presumed to have been burned alive was a black man, and he ended up getting out. No one that Macey asks remembers anything about the fire, so they say. They want to keep it secret because he was black and the fire was like arson. After digging into it more Macey is turned to believe that the person who started the fire lived on Shell Road. The only problem with this was that Macey’s grandparents and Austin’s grandparents are the only ones who live here. Now Macey is more determined to find out what happened. Everyone tries to get her to research something different for her history project but, because of the fire that burned her hair, she is stuck on it. Venita, who is also black, is shot during a gang fight. All this proves to Macey that no matter how hard her town tries to hide it they are very prejudice. Her family won’t let her go the funeral. Which upsets her greatly. Finally Macey gets Austin to help her find out how the fire started and who was all responsible. These two end up falling for eachother but don’t want to admit it.
In the film, Crash by Paul Higgins there is the incorporation of numerous perspectives and theories of societal issues. The film brought up various issues we face in our world today such as racial discrimination, stereotyping, and prejudice etc. One theory that is seen is the symbolic interaction theory. There is the usage of different symbols in the film. Each character in the film comes from a different culture; socioeconomic background etc. and they each have their own story.
Even for those justly convicted, are usually still under high amounts of stress, etc. due to their impending deaths.
The United States of America is the only country that sends children to die in prison. Juveniles are being tried as adults and are given life in prison without parole. In the article, Locked Away Forever?: The Supreme Court is Considering Whether Life Imprisonment for Teen Offenders Constitutes ‘Cruel and Unusual’ Punishment by Adam Liptak, it states, “but 109 people are serving life without parole for juveniles offenses that did not involve a homicide” (Liptak). Not only are juveniles being prosecuted unfairly, but they are also being sent to life in prison for crimes that does not include homicide. Furthermore, in the article Liptak talks about how a thirteen-year-old was sentenced to life in prison for sexual assault without parole. However, according to the article, What Kinds of Penalties Does Sexual Assault Carry If
I read The Lockdown, by Walter Dean Myers. Mr. Vanduyn made us read a book of our own choice and I had read the book within six hours. This book is not that catchy but it makes a lot more sense if I continue to read it more. It is a beautiful and a sad story of a fourteen-year-old boy. His name is Reese and he’s African American. His father is not always there for him and his mother is a drug addict.
While crossing the valley, a white rancher spots and questions them. Silva tells Yellow Woman to leave him with the white rancher. She does so and rides away, hearing four gun-shots. In
In the second part of Parenti’s book, Lockdown America, he discusses policing practices and their proactive strategies aimed at preventing disorder. In this section of the book, Parenti advances his argument by looking at crime through the eyes of law enforcement. Parenti looks at the policies of Bratton, the New York Police Commissioner. Bratton revamped the police force in the city, rewarded those that succeeded and were aggressive in doing their job and those that did not keep up with him were fired or put on the sidelines. His goals was to be efficient on every level, and being efficient meant enforcing the law even for minor offences.
When a prisoner enters a prison, it is presumed he is guilty of the crime he was charged with. If this is true, the prison has an obligation to do something about this criminal. They are not going
Her father isn't home; he's at Angela's place searching through the club strike film that shows Sandoval going upstairs independent from anyone else. Simply at that point, Saxe makes a trip to vent about Maks associating him with the murder and specifies that Sandoval thinks Donovan is the mole. Amazement — Donovan heard you. Tommy and Dre get together at the distribution center where Julio was slaughtered, and Tommy debilitates Dre about Kanan. Dre lies again however gets free, redirecting Tommy's thoughtfulness regarding an affirmed meeting Julio had without Tommy.
After that, Armando and Kali getting closer, and finally Kali get her part-time employment. Armando give her a job as a cashier. In the middle of the play, Eunice is looking for Kali, and meet Tat, her boyfriend after they have separated for several years. She told him that Kali is missing. Kali meet Lone Wolf, and they are often see each other and share everything. Until one day, the Lone Wolf give Kali a gun. He said that he feels safe with the gun on his hand, so Kali ask him to borrow it. Eunice’s neighbor named, Shana has stayed in New Orleans all three years, staunchly guarding her home, and the homes of her neighbors while attempting to galvanize the community vigorously against the ways the administration recuperation exertion has abused them together with the Lone Wolf and her friend, Mr. Dee. After a few weeks, Kali works at the Armando’s store, Tat meets Kali at the store, and they both have serious conversations. Suddenly, Kali pull out the gun from her bag and point it to her father. Accidentally, Kali fire the gun and damage the ceiling. Tomorrow morning, Armando come to the store and get mad to Kali because some people said to him that there was a shot from the store last night. Kali get fired and Armando ask her to give the gun because it is illegal for a girl who just 14 years old holds a gun.
The point of attack happened soon after the exposition. While the family is eating dinner. Dre continues to ponder about how he will provided for a family of 5 all by himself. Dre kids start to ask him about down payments and fees for summer camp and summer classes. Complications start to occur, Dre was very stressed out about the problems that might arise with him being the only person making money in the household. Dre stuffs his face with gravy and chicken while watching Good Times shortly after he drifts off into a
Perowne gets into a minor car accident in the morning with a young thug named Baxter, but he sways himself out of the situation through his