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surely all of this is about death sentences
I have not work a deathrow prison only with lifers or lesser sentence. However same resources apply for getting assistance. Case managers and social workers are the main personal that do this. But everyone can make referral medical and correctional often do because of the one to one time we spend with the offender. Medical more often because less discipline is seen as coming from that direction so they often feel comfortable to tell their account. All prisons also have a law library. There are many free or low cost to the offender lawyer services. The free to offender services means paid for by the taxes of the people and society the crime was committed against. They can always pay their own lawyer if they want.
In my time working in corrections I have yet to meet any one that has been wrongfully convicted. Only people who have been sentenced to inappropriate terms. The law only allows so many years for certain crimes but sometimes a judge will give to many years. Then the sentenced person must appeal the sentence. I have made referrals to help offenders on the way to resolving such issues.
Still, you're not on the death row lynna nor do I.
The system is not without flaw to carry conviction such as irreversible death, it's again my conscience
There is no way to tell how many of the over 1,000 people executed since 1976 may also have been innocent. Courts do not generally entertain claims of innocence when the defendant is dead. Defense attorneys move on to other cases where clients' lives can still be saved.
Executed But Possibly Innocent Only time, science advancement, human efforts (if there is) will tell how many were innocent and how many criminal were escaping the punishment just because the case was deemed closed, people lose interest in it.
One put death wrongly is one to many.
I'm not familiar with this saying, care to explain
Do you know I am a rape survivor? That occasion was brutal that man held a gun to my cheek bone at one point and threatened to blow my face off. He beat me black and blue all over my body because he wanted to hurt me he didn't know me at all. That man never served a minute of time in jail or prison for that crime. Laws have changed since then but I was in the end found guilty because I was not married to the father of my daughter. It was my lifestyle that put me in the position I was in.
The reason I tell that account is so you can understand I know about having a crime committed against me. A horrible crime. I'm okay. I feel sorry for that man because what he did to me hinders him from being as complete a person as he could be because what he did to me.
I'm sorry, mad to hear what happened to you lynna but I can't based my reason on this.
The reason I tell that account is so you can understand I know about having a crime committed against me. A horrible crime. I'm okay. I feel sorry for that man because what he did to me hinders him from being as complete a person as he could be because what he did to me.
These people who commit crimes have problems. They make wrong choices. They blame their wrong choices on everything under the sun except where the blame belongs.
Of course it's, human tend to blamed everything around them for self preservation, there's a reason for that and human do interact with their surrounding, I don't see a reason to agree with death penalty
Not all of them. Some of them get it they learn the lesson.
Could the system better? Sure. But it is good. There are resource for those who will open their eyes and use them.
The thing that is flawed is when a person doesn't want to own up to being responsible for their own actions.
Maybe there's a reason that they don't take responsiblity for their action, confusion, innocent, illness and remorseless.
I'm inclined to see your argument for death penalties is for repetitive offender being sentenced for life imprisonment than deathrow inmate here, still I'm not seing the reason for death penalty.
Bring the situation home Paranoid. Don't think of it as something that happens someplace else to some one else. What would you want to happen to some one who brutally murder 5 people and would do it again without second thought? Not just any 5 people on of them was your mom and one was your lover. That rapist that raped me now he raped your daughter. What should be done?
I will be mad, I'll grief and I'll move on, the offender can rot in jail, all what was left of his life thinking what bring him to that situation, rather than allowing him a quick death, easy way out. Still not a reason for death penalties.
Now there is a system that is designed to teach that offender how to make it in life. They can go to vocational school at the expense of the taxes payer. They can get job training if they wait to and qualify.
This is not the one who were sentenced to life imprisonment is it ? then they can improved their life and contribute to society, I don't think it's wrong even if they were, they're still imprisoned, not release into society, doing work there, just make sure they're still there.
Who helps the victim recover?
lynna, I get the vibe that this question in the first place is for you yourself, not me, and I do feel you're qualified to answered this yourself, but do tell me.
PM me an I will give the address of a prisoner to write so you can have your very own firsthand opinion. How does that sound? But you have to write on paper and put on stamp and send in the mail. He loves to get letters and is an awesome artist.
the idea is very appealing, but I'm in no conditions to use traditional method in making new friends. I have to think this over, btw, what kind of artist is he ?
and I do some searches on website regarding those opinion
Wrongly Convicted Tell Congress about the Inhumane Treatment They Suffered in Solitary Confinement
Senate Holds the First-Ever Congressional Hearing on Solitary Confinement: “Reassessing Solitary Confinement: The Human Rights, Fiscal and Public Safety Consequences”
(June 19, 2012; Washington, D.C.) – Today Anthony Graves, who was exonerated after spending 16 years on death-row in Texas, testified at the first-ever congressional hearing on solitary confinement about the horrors he faced while held in solitary confinement. The Innocence Project also submitted written statements to the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights on behalf of five men and one woman about the inhumane treatment they experienced in solitary confinement while incarcerated for crimes they didn’t commit. The six men and women were all represented by different member projects of the Innocence Network. Today they submitted statements as individuals and add their voices to the many others that ask the Congress to stop this practice.
“As the stories of these six exonerees so starkly illustrate, placing someone in a tiny cell and cutting them off from regular human contact is an extreme punishment with grave psychological consequences,” said Maddy deLone, Executive Director of the Innocence Project, which is affiliated with Cardozo School of Law. “But what’s truly shocking is how frequently prisons and jails in this country use this practice. Nearly all of wrongly convicted that I’ve spoken with have their own disturbing story about time spent in solitary confinement. We are relieved that Congress has decided to shine a light on this far too common practice, and we hope that the voices of the exonerated will be useful as Congress and others develop meaningful reforms to stem its use.”
The Innocence Project submitted personal statements on behalf of the following:
Julie Rea was wrongly imprisoned for three years in Illinois before being exonerated in 2006. She describes that she was placed in solitary to keep her from harming herself and was then tormented by prison guards who played a recording of a woman being tortured to prevent her from sleeping.
Cornelius Dupree, who was exonerated by DNA after spending 30 years in Texas prisons for a crime he didn’t commit, details receiving one complete meal only every three days when he was placed in solitary. The other two days he received a spoonful each of rice and beans and a roll.
Robert Dewey, exonerated in 2012 after spending 17 years in Colorado prisons for a crime DNA proved he didn’t commit, was placed in solitary because the medication he was prescribed after back surgery caused him to fail a drug test. While in solitary, he was denied medication on the schedule his doctors had prescribed.
Nicholas James Yarris spent 23 years in solitary confinement on death row in Pennsylvania before he was exonerated by DNA in 2003. While incarcerated he attempted suicide and a year before he was finally freed asked that he be executed rather than continue to be held in “endless degradation.”
Clarence Elkins describes being numb when he was finally released after being wrongly imprisoned in Ohio for 6 ½ years because he had spent the last three months in solitary confinement to “protect” him from the real perpetrator who committed the crime in his case and was incarcerated in the prison.
Herman Atkins spent 16 months in solitary confinement during the 11 years he was wrongly imprisoned in California before DNA proved his innocence. He describes being confined to a small windowless room with a light always on to allow correction officers to watch him at all times, and says, “When a government has the authority to treat people so poorly, it’s impossible to hold citizens to a higher standard.”
Wrongly Convicted Tell Congress about the Inhumane Treatment They Suffered in Solitary Confinement 
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