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The "Letter from Birmingham Jail", also known as the "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" and "The Negro Is Your Brother", is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr. It says that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action rather than waiting potentially forever for justice to come ...
“We shouldn’t be in jail for our situation.” More people are finding themselves in the same situation as that mother. According to HUD , from January 2022 to January 2023, there’s been a ...
Biggs was one of the very first people to storm into the Capitol after a fellow Proud Boy smashed a window. Days after his release, he was trying to donate a bunch of his old clothes. It didn’t ...
The boy, upset and confused, protests that he hasn’t done anything wrong. "If you don't stop, we're going to use force on you,” the guard says. “And I'll tell you what, it won't be freaking pretty. Now you're going to stand there, like a grown man, and do as you're told to, like a grown man, and stop throwing a 2-year-old temper tantrum."
Martha Stewart's stay in federal prison was no cupcake.. The lifestyle mogul spent five months at Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia (nicknamed Camp Cupcake) after she was found guilty ...
In Norway a focus on preparation for societal re-entry has yielded "one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world at 20%, [while] the US has one of the highest: 76.6% of [American] prisoners are re-arrested within five years". [74] The Swedish incarceration rate decreased by 6% between 2011 and 2012. [75]
In 2017, more than half (56%) [33] of state prisoners sentenced to one year or longer were serving a sentence for a violent crime. In 2018, Minnesota, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont had the lowest imprisonment rates in the U.S., with fewer than 200 sentenced prisoners per 100,000 residents."
Studies have shown that one of the reasons inmates become involved in religion is to improve their self-concept. Many inmates experience guilt, remorse, and pain as a result of their criminal history and background. Religion helps them to feel better about themselves and thus improve their self-concept in this way. [7]