SERVING JUSTICE IN AN INJUSTICE WAY The New Bilibid Prison (NBP), formerly known as Old Bilibid Prison, is one of the major facilities under the supervision of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), an agency under the Department of Justice. Built in Manila, it was the primary correctional facility in the country since 1847. And starting 1936, it was relocated in Muntinlupa City as a main station for male offenders throughout the country. (“New Bilibid Prison”, 2002). But according to Diola (2014), different
No to Death Penalty In the Philippines the crimes are rising every moment. Crimes like rape, murder, robbery, human trafficking and other crimes are happening here in the Philippines like a daily hobby of the Filipinos. So people are starting to be afraid and wonder if the government is doing their best to stop these crimes. Now people suggested that death penalty should be brought back in the Philippines so crimes will be lessen, but there are people who will stop them because they think that death
Many countries have banned corporal punishment due to different reasons but some are still adopting it. However, people start to question whether corporal punishment should be reintroduced to increase the deterrence effect towards any wrongdoers. According to the Collins Dictionary, corporal punishment is punishment of a physical nature. And it has divided into 3 main types such as parental or domestic corporal punishment, school corporal punishment and judicial corporal punishment. Parental or
Introduction Incarceration is a growing problem in the United States. Overall, the prison capacity has increased due to the frequency of custodial punishment, longer sentences, and high recidivism rates, which leaves approximately 60% of the prisons at maximum capacity (Ginn, 2012). This environment presents challenges for security as well as for prison healthcare practitioners. Since security is the major concern in these prison facilities, healthcare is a subsequent interest. However, if competent healthcare
“If This is a Man” by Primo Levi is a book written by Italian author; Primo Levi, first published in 1947, is a tale that captures the horrors and misfortune happening in the ‘black hole’ of Auschwitz. The novel enthralls readers and helps them imagine the horrors that took part in the holocaust, Levi wanted to educate his readers on these events as well as remind himself of his history and what he’d gone through. Levi wanted to show how the experience had been different for everyone and therefore
The lesson of “The Other Wes Moore” is that no matter where you come from, you can choose your fate. The entire story is about two people with similar backgrounds going in completely opposite directions in their lives. The author states, “The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave” (Moore 185). The unsuccessful Wes Moore, left his inheritance that he tried to murder a police officer. Whether that is true or not, a reader knows that he made poor decisions
The prisons population is a group of people I was taught to stay away from as a child. The mentally disabled people population was categorized as a group of people that were dangerous too. My mother was extremely protective over me, her youngest daughter; and through these primitive assumptions by her, it seemed to me that she was afraid of these groups of people herself. Coming out of my comfort zone, and choosing the “prisoners with mental illnesses” group for my Model for Change assignment, I
different from the criminal themselves, using the government as a way to kill another person as revenge is ridiculous. It is like a criminal framing innocent people to get away with their act. But, death penalty does not make anything better. Life in prison without parole in a maximum-security detention facility is a better alternative, Death penalty is not the only way to give justice. When the criminal is send to death penalty it only make emotion/fear to people and not a lesson to learn. Politicians
order to get them to plead guilty. This creates an environment of coercion. Low-level criminals should not be threatened with high-level mandatory sentences. The low-level criminals would say or do almost anything to get out of spending many years in prison. In my opinion, it should be the role of a judge, not the prosecutor, to give discretion to the case. Judges and juries should conduct sentencing, not by an act passed by Congress. Everyone is entitled to a fair and just trial. By having mandatory
Imprisoned in Daily Life In this section of his book “Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison”, Michel Foucault describes the Panopticon. This is an architectural design used in many prison systems. There is a central tower, where a guard stands, surrounded by a ring-shaped building divided into cells. Each cell has two windows, one facing the tower and the other on the outer side, which allows light to shine through. The structure of the Panopticon allows the guard to observe the prisoners