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Marijuana in Professional Sports
Nate, , Showcase, Sports, Drugs, Privacy, Incarceration, Good Health and Well-Being, Fall 2020, sports, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, 6Marijuana for a long time has been the best friend of professional athletes. Endless amounts come out after their...
Lack of Education Inside the Juvenile Justice System Creates an Endless Cycle
Erica, , Reduced Inequalities, Politics, Crime, American Dream, Goals, Incarceration, Showcase, Raise Your Voice, Quality Education, Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Prison, Fall 2019, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Youth Activism, Rights, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, 2In some schools, counties, or even states, there is a direct school-to-prison pipeline. Students who, more times than not,...
China’s Big Secret
Charlie, , History, Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Violence, War, Dystopia, Quality Education, Fall 2019, Prison, Police, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Refugees, Good Health and Well-Being, Rights, Privacy, Reduced Inequalities, Terrorism, Slavery, No Poverty (Economy), Protest, Politics, Incarceration, Crime, Showcase, Religion, Immigration, justice, communism, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, china, 1For a while now, I’ve always noticed that countries with totalitarian Governments like the Soviet Union and North Korea,...
We need better evidence.
Audrey, , Showcase, Incarceration, Fall 2019, Partnerships for the Goals, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, wrongful conviction, innocent, misidentification, 1Wrongful convictions happen more than you may think and there are many ways that cause it. Someone who has...
The Negative Effects of the Death Penalty
Nic, , Reduced Inequalities, Showcase, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Politics, Death Penalty, Incarceration, Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Fall 2019, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, 4There is a lot of statistical evidence as to why abolishing the death penalty can be good for society....
Felon Disenfranchisement and Recidivism
Jackson, , Fall 2019, Responsible Consumption and Production, Partnerships for the Goals, Showcase, Incarceration, Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, 0In recent years, sentencing reform has received a lot of attention. We’ve rightly come to the realization that we...
How The Green Mile Exposes What’s Wrong With the Death Penalty in America
Aidan, , This is America, Arts & Entertainment, Reduced Inequalities, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Partnerships for the Goals, Art, Incarceration, fyp, the green mile, Okemos High School, justice, death penalty, 0The Green Mile by Stephen King is a book about death, both in life and on death row in...
Deportation
Luis, , Politics, Fall 2018, Religion, Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Latino Power, Refugees, Spring 2019, Media, Reduced Inequalities, Social Class, Showcase, American Dream, Immigration, Argument, Race Relations, Protest, Rights, Community, No Poverty (Economy), Incarceration, Berkeley High School, 2I have chosen to write about deportation because it has been an ongoing issue for a long time and it’s...
Punishing the Punisher
Halley, , Incarceration, incarceration, capital punishment, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, crime prevention, crime, 1There are 31 states where capital punishment is legal. The most common method of execution is lethal injections. Although...
Policing Immigration
Gwendolyn, , Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Rights, Politics, Crime, American Dream, Incarceration, Showcase, Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Immigration, Reduced Inequalities, Prison, Police, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, 1Immigration may well be the hottest issue in the United States today. Some people want to build physical walls...
Guards Hurt Inmates
Kamyiah, , Prison, Incarceration, The Fifth Column, Spring 2018, Upstander, Showcase, Life Academy of Health and Bioscience, #upstander, #WeneedPrisonReform, 6Dear Superior Court of California-County of Alameda, We are choosing to write to you because you are our county...
Racial Stereotyping and Profiling
Olivia, , Showcase, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Biases, Incarceration, Spring 2018, Discrimination, stereotyping, 0Unit 3 Project Well, I focused on racial stereotyping and profiling for my project. Although the issue doesn’t directly...
Plea Bargaining: The Unspoken Issue of Our Legal System
Jacqueline, , Showcase, Privacy, Incarceration, Spring 2018, trial tax, social justice, plea bargaining, 0I have always known about plea bargaining and that many US citizens, defense lawyers, and criminal rights activists disagree...
How Multi Level Marketing Has Failed in the Past
Maxwell, , Incarceration, Spring 2018, Showcase, Rights, No Poverty (Economy), History, Social Class, American Dream, #EthnicStudies, pyramid scheme, marketing, research, finance, 1This article by Stacie Bosley and Kim McKeage examines the diffusion of multilevel marketing and the risk of pyramid...
Gun Control and Mental Health
Lexi, , Incarceration, Spring 2018, Good Health and Well-Being, Showcase, Guns, Community, Shootings, Gun control, Florida, mental health, 3After the events of the Florida Shooting, I wanted to do some research into how mental health and shootings...
Multi-Level Marketing and its Uncanny Resemblance to the Pyramid Scheme
Maxwell, , Prison, Good Health and Well-Being, Psychology, Politics, Happiness, Debt, Social Class, American Dream, Incarceration, multi level marketing, pyramid scheme, bernie madoff, Money, 0In business, there exists a competitive craving to be smarter, faster, and bigger than everyone else. This urge stems...
The Price of Being a Woman in Prison
Beth, , Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Spring 2018, Gender, Good Health and Well-Being, Gender Equity (Women), Crime, Call to Action, Showcase, Fall 2017, Incarceration, The Fifth Column, Inequality, crime, health, incarceration, hygiene, women, gender inequality, 4In the United States of America, even the toughest criminals have basic rights protected by our country’s Constitution. The...
Should the United States decriminalize Drugs?
Oliver, , Drugs, Decision Making, No Poverty (Economy), Biases, Politics, Fall 2017, Happiness, Incarceration, Debt, Good Health and Well-Being, Friendship, Showcase, War, 2nextprez, Research Help, Violence, Voting, Prison, Science, Family, Protest, 0The United States does not tolerate drugs at all, since Ronald Reagan started the war on drugs. If someone...
There’s nothing wrong with private prisons
Angelica, , Argument, Decision Making, Biases, Fall 2017, Incarceration, Showcase, Prison, Crime, Research Help, Prison system, 2Seems like a good idea at first glance. Too many prisoners, no money to build prisons. Let private companies...
Lock Em Up and Throw Away the Key
Nathan, , Showcase, Incarceration, Descrimination, war on drugs, alternative punishment, 6The “war on crime” era of American history drastically changed how we deal with crime, and incarceration. The saying...
The death penalty and when it is appropriate.
Billy, , Showcase, Politics, Crime, Death Penalty, Argument, Fall 2017, Incarceration, law, deathpenalty, capital punishment, punishment, murder, 2A few hundred years ago, all around the world, the penal system was absolutely. People would be sentenced to...
Injustices of United States’ War on Drugs.
Melissa, , Showcase, Race Relations, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Drugs, Crime, Fall 2017, Incarceration, #socialissue, #druguse, 0The war on drugs, the supposed “public enemy number one”, established under the Nixon administration and intensified under Reagan...
The Juvenile Justice System: Deeply Flawed
Sophia, , Death Penalty, Incarceration, Showcase, Violence, Prison, Race Relations, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Inquiry, Politics, 0In privileged communities across America, the phrase “kids are the future” is sung to remind children that they matter....
Adultification of Black Babes
Ariel, , Gender Equity (Women), Fall 2017, Incarceration, Politics, Showcase, Crime, Quality Education, Race Relations, Black Lives Matter, Police, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Community, Gender, Decision Making, Black Lives Matter, childhood, dehumanization, adulthood, Okemos High School, prejudice, 11Are Black Children Forced to Grow Up Faster Than White Children YES Black kids are forced to grow up...
Why is there such a high incarceration rate?
Sebastian, , Showcase, Getting Started, Fall 2017, Incarceration, 4In many states in the US, cannabis is beginning to be legalized recreationally. In other states, only medical cannabis...
Prison Labor Protest, a Fight for Humanity
Mireya, , Raise Your Voice, Slavery, Spring 2017, Incarceration, 0“‘It’s just dressed up slavery’: America’s shadow workforce rises up against prison labor” written by Carimah Townes who is a...