Prisons and Jails

 VIDEO: Supreme Court rules for Alabama death row inmate – YouTube  Death penalty in America – YouTube [3/5/19] – Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Death Row Inmate with Dementia The U.S. Supreme Court sent a death-row case back to the lower courts on February 27th, ruling in favor of Vernon Madison, a death row…

Week 4 Discussion Forum – Protecting Prisoner Rights 11 unread reply.11 reply. Link (Links to an external site.) Link (Links to an external site.) Link (Links to an external site.) Articles: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/03/709475746/doj-report-finds-violence-in-alabama-prisons-common-cruel-pervasive (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/alabama-prisons-doj-investigation.html (Links to an external site.) https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/file/1149971/download (Links to an external site.) https://abcnews.go.com/US/inside-nightmarish-world-alabama-prisons-dojs-attempt-fix/story?id=62146416 (Links to an external site.) [4/9/19] – DOJ…

Instructions are below, the required reading is attached.  After reviewing the Learn items for this Module, create a thread that explains why competent communication is important in the field of criminal justice. Within your response, provide a personal example of a scenario in which competent communication was not used. If you have had personal experience…

  An organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, challenges, and threats (SWOC/T) must be identified at the beginning of the strategic planning process.   You are part of a team of external criminal justice professionals who are tasked with conducting a SWOC/T environmental assessment for a city/organization that has been the subject of budget cuts and/or a defund…

 1. Jazz music was America’s most popular radio and dance club genre from the 1920s–40s. In the 1950s, its popularity began to dwindle, even though respect for the genre steadily grew. Today, jazz music is considered to be the equal in artistry and complexity to classical music, and it has about the same relatively small…

All questions are worth 20 points: Discuss the complexities of defense of home and property. Discuss the complexities of the defense of consent. Describe the relationship between syndrome-based defenses and mens rea. What is mental incompetency?  What are some of the challenges in proving an individual is incompetent or insane? Explain the five different sentencing rationales….