Essays on Detainees

The Federal Torts Claims Act (FTCA) is the statute that allows for the recovery of damages against the United States (Cann 487). This Act allows prisoners of the federal government and pretrial detainees in federal correction facilities to file lawsuits against the United States if a federal officer injures them. The Federal Torts Claims Act enables a litigant to sue the federal government over torts committed by its employees (Cann 487). The United States has no qualified immunity under this Act. It is important to note that the Act does not limit a noncitizen from suing the federal government. ...

If one is looking for a position of a Correctional Office in the State of Delaware he or she must meet the accompanying necessities; the individual must be no less than 19 ½ years old, have a secondary school degree or equal, and have a substantial driver's ID. All applicants must pass a drug test and his criminal background will be checked. During the pre-enrollment process all applicants must finish a composed examination, which incorporates different decision questions identified with visual and acquainted memory, composing capacity, and understanding of readings. Applicants are then positioned in view of scores and set ...

Protests have been occurring in Iran for decades, but recent developments have brought them to the center of global attention. In this essay, I will explain why the Iran riots started, their origins, development, and essential points, as well as why understanding them may be crucial for the American public.

Reasons Behind the Protests in Iran

Protests in Iran are happening for a variety of causes. Economic difficulties make up one of the key factors. For years, the Iranian economy has struggled due to foreign sanctions and mismanagement. Inflation is on the rise, while unemployment is widespread, particularly among the young. Many Iranians are struggling to ...

The rule of law requires a fair access to justice for England and Wales as well as any other sovereign country with a governing constitution. The route towards delivering equitable access to justice to all citizens requires enrolment of all justice department stakeholders as well as other interested parties. For instance, each of the arms of the government has their own responsibilities that need execution to the best of their ability in order to ensure equal justice to all. In this case, each arm of the government is it the legislature, executive, or judiciary should not intimidate or influence ...

International Human Rights Law and Prisons in Africa

Term Paper 4500 words

Introduction

The International Centre for Prison Studies’ World Prison Brief, in its report suggested that over 10 million individuals are formally incarcerated in prison and correctional facilities around the world. According to the same Brief, even more are held in either military facilities where they are detained or in security or police facilities without any specific legal process underway. There are three categories that the United States’ (U.S). Government has for humanitarian and human rights concerns as they relate to these individuals who are housed in a detention facility that is; 1. unsafe in terms of ...

Zero Dark Thirty is a film that has sparked a great deal of debate. The debate centers around the ethical and moral issues it presents, which will be discussed. The film is a darkly realistic unfolding of the events following the September 11, 2001 attacks. The film climaxes with the discovery and killing of the sponsor of the September 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden. The film is presented from the inside point of view of the CIA agents involved with the gathering of information. The thought-provoking film forces us to question government secrecy and counter-terrorism. The main focus of ...

Summary

Angela Yvonne Davis was born in Alabama in1944. She is a renowned educator, author, and social activist in the United States of America. Davis devoted most of her time to championing for different social causes as manifested by her participation in activities of the Black Panther Movement and Civil Rights Movement. Davis has a particular interest in inmates; therefore, she has been instrumental in promoting prisoners’ rights. She founded and worked with Critical Resistance, an organization that takes care of the affairs of detainees, particularly attempting to eliminate the prison-industrial complex. Angela’s views and activities are sometimes considered ...

There have been numerous attacks around the world that have been driven by extreme radicalization. There are those attacks that shook the world and created concern in people’s minds. One of the terrorism acts that still remain in our minds is the 9-1-1 attack on the United States. These attacks were defining and tragic to the Americans. They were affected in diverse and countless ways (Anonymous, 2013). In China, 133 people were killed on March 2014 and 141 others injured after they were attacked by eight men and women who used knives in the attack. The latest of ...

Indisputably, mental illnesses are almost in every society and can affect any person irrespective of age, gender, or income group. These diseases have profound impacts on social, economic, and cultural life, and are highly prevalent throughout the world (Vanderplasschen et al., 2013). According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness statistics, the population of adults in Americans with mental illness approximates to 61.5 million in any given year (Reserved, 2016). Mental illness disrupts the normal feelings and thinking, resulting in reduced individual capacity to cope with normal life. Some of the fatal mental illnesses are post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), ...

On Prison Reforms

Initially, between the sixteenth and seventeenth century, prisons were not meant to punish offenders. Rather, they were the holding places in which the people who dared to break a law and social norms remained until their due punishment. In other words, if one were to steal of murder, he or she would go to prison and wait for trial after which, based on the type of crime, the punishment would ensue. From whippings to executions, the kinds of sanctions in the years leading to prison reforms were swift. Accordingly, prisons lacked any form of order and were mostly poorly ...

Abstract

Since the end of the Great Wars, the international community has worked double time to improve the human rights conditions of the public. Throughout the conflicts that transpired for years, citizens were persecuted in the most horrific means in order to gain information or punish the innocent. Several important conventions were established after the war to fight against these torture incidents such as the United Nations Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Convention. Many states are signatories of these Conventions; however, it is a question if these conventions can still be applicable today especially as several conflicts continue to ...

Learner's Full Name

Assignment Title The September 11, 2001 attacks on the world trade center and the pentagon by the Al Qaida proved to be a watershed moment in the history of America as well as general warfare. In his Address to the Joint Session of the 107th Congress on 20th September , 2001, President Bush blamed the Al Qaida for the attacks and entreated Americans as well as people from all over the world to wage a war against terrorism. He argues that the war against terrorism was unlike any conventional war and that it would be protracted. This war against terror ...

Domestic terrorism entails those acts of terrorism staged within the borders of a country whereas international terrorism has the terrorism activities carried out by terrorists across borders and a Al-Qaeda is one example of groups doing international terrorism. Since terrorism is an extreme evil that comes about with much havoc to the affected country, extreme measures need to be taken. U.S. is known to take some of the most drastic measures in dealing and responding to terrorism may it be domestic or international. There a numerous ways to frustrate terrorist, the first way may be the subjecting of the ...

Facts: Sheriff Joe Arpaio installed a number of internet connected cameras (webcams) in his jail. The cameras provided 24-hour real-time coverage of what was happening in the jails to any with internet access. The main use for the jail was to provide pre-trial detention suspects and defendants who were awaiting the resolution of their cases or other disposition. That is to say, the detainees in the jails might have been charged with an offense but had not been convicted of any crime. Arpaio’s ideas for installing the webcams was to provide the community and wider public of what ...

Closing Guantanamo Bay 1

Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Proposition 4 Advantages of the transfer. 6 Risk of the detainees returning to terrorism. 6 Civil war in the countries where the detainees are to be transferred. 7 Fear among members of the communities nearby proposed transfer sites. 7 The question of integrity and indefinite detention 7 Proposed Transfer Sites 8 Conclusion 8

References 9

Abstract The Guantanamo Bay is a prison facility that has raised numerous concerns in the United States on the operation and running of the facility. It is one of the facilities created by former president of the United States George Bush, to ...

Introduction

Once inmates or detainees have fully served their sentence and are released, the time to re-join society comes. This transaction is tough despite the amount of time they serve in prison. Subsequently, a large number of detainees who are released from prison re-offend and eventually return to prison. This occurrence is what is known as recidivism, almost relative to a relapse. It is among the measurements used commonly to determine how well-armored individuals are to be released and return to society. This paper discusses the relationship between human dignity and the mission for public safety in prisons plus the ...

Introduction

Juvenile correctional approaches in the United States centers around the best interest of the child. Young children below the age of 18 fall into the juvenile category. The system offers to purge any criminal record after a stipulated period of time and at the completion of certain terms. The juvenile records remain sealed from public record during this time and are rarely unsealed in spite of exceptional circumstances. Juvenile offenders are first part of a meeting between the State prosecutors to discuss the options of community service for nonviolent crimes. Only in the event of not reaching a conclusive ...

Background

This case examines the political reasons and bargaining that goes into a decision to build a prison. There are many factors that go into play before the decision is made and many are political because of the money and employment capabilities that prisons bring to the community.

Key Issues

One of the issues is the logistics of the facility. The original plans called for the building on a federally protected watershed. The need though was multifold for the economic boast that a prison would bring to this rural area. So attempts to redistrict this area would be possible.

The numbers of women in prison were growing and in the state the other prisons were overcrowded.

A third component ...

Introduction

Much debate has been around the income and bail bond system in the United States. There have been expressed concerns of inequality among detainees based on their wealth and possession. Criminal justice system in the United States is confronted with the increasing number of the incarcerated population. The focus of the paper will be on presenting the arguments why the bail bond systems do not work for low income defendants. The fairness of the criminal systems has been questioned based on the disproportionate affect the bail bond has on the poor detainees.

Bail bond system

Bail bond payment is a money payment ...

Overcrowding or overpopulation in prisons is defined as a situation when prison(s) hosts more prisoners contrary to the certified normal accommodation (CNA) as stipulated in the establishment’s requirements (Garcia & Marco, 2012, p. 37). This can be validated when there is the scarcity of rooms for inmates to sleep. Besides, the inability of facilities to offer adequate meals or food, poor health care services for inmates, insufficient staff who can care for inmates and ensure their safety as well as the lack of designated accommodation facilities necessary for detaining separately various types of prisoners, more so those that ...

Introduction

Dilawar, a taxi driver and an Afghan citizen, was considered as a kind and honest man by the villagers. As such, when the U.S. military detained him, after he had picked up three customers, denizens could not understand why. Picking the innocent taxi driver and hold him in prison without trial remained questionable. Five days after his arrest, his mysterious death in Bagram prison cell followed. Death of Dilawar came just a week after another mysterious death of an Afghan at Bagram. The documentary indicated that, the taxi driver and the other detainee died from injuries sustained at the prison. Injuries inflicted ...

The article titled “U.S. military doctors abetted prisoner abuse, study says” was written by Jane Sutton in the Chicago Tribune newspaper on November 04 2013. In the article, Sutton reports the findings of a study by the Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers which studied the conduct of US military doctors in the interrogation of detainees after the September 11 attacks.

The reporter states that military doctors violated medical ethics by collaborating with interrogators to harm prisoners after the September 11 attacks in a bid to force ...

Illegal immigration

Informative essay Illinois Coalition for Immigrants and Refugee Right (ICIRR) Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Right (ICIRR) is dedicated to propelling the benefits of pariahs and outcasts to full and comparable participation in the city, social, social, and political presence of our contrasting society (Newman, 2006). In relationship with our part affiliations, the Coalition shows and deals with pariah and evacuee gatherings to express their rights; propels citizenship and metro bolster; screens, dismembers, and promoters on vagrant related issues; and, teaches the general populace about the responsibilities of pilgrims and evacuees (Karmiol, 2007). During the time ...

Introduction

The end of World War II has introduced an era where human rights were not only appreciated, but also considered inherited entitled. They were addressed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly, as part of the International Bill of Human Rights, in December, 1948 (United Nations). According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 9, no person should be subjected to “arbitrary arrest, detention or exile” (United Nations). However, during wartime, the Fourth Geneva Convention is used, so to define detainees. There are many contradicting viewpoints, as to whether an ...

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Habeas Corpus in the era of terrorism

In a 5-4 ruling, the United States Supreme Court declared that individuals held as “enemy combatants” at the American detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have the right to immediately initiate legal proceedings for habeas corpus petitions in the US criminal justice system to denounce the legality of their detention. Majority of the inmates in the facility have been detained under hellish conditions, bearing with alternating instances of torture and forced isolation, for more than half a decade. Regrettably, during all the time that these people were forcibly detained under such horrific conditions, none were given the right to ...

Facts of the case: The petitioner in this case, Mr Albert Florence, was arrested on charges of obstruction of justice and use of a deadly weapon. He was eventually sentenced to pay a fine in installments of a certain amount. After he defaulted on these payments, the authorities issued a bench warrant for his arrest. Due to a mistake in the system, however, this warrant was not removed from a statewide computer database. As a result, two years later he was arrested by an officer and brought to the Burlington County Detention Center. After spending six days in detention there, he was brought to the Essex ...

In March 20th, 2003, America started on of the longest wars in the world. The American forces invaded Iraq without warning and triggered the beginning of the war. There were claims by the United Kingdom and the United States of America that, Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction (WPM) and thus was a threat to their security and to the coalitions in the region (Blair, 2002). The United Nations monitoring, verification and inspection commission (UNMOVIC) had conducted a thorough search and verification in Iraq prior to the attack to ascertain this claim. They found no evidence of ...

Question 1

Torture has been considered as a serious human right violation all-round the world. Torture is prohibited by each country and also the international law. The use of torture on individuals has an effect on their political and civil rights. This issue was the first to be addressed by the United Nations in 1949 after it was formed. The international law as set out by the United Nations is against any form of inhuman and any degrading activities to humans and cannot be accepted at any cost. Torture is the inflict of harm or pain or emotional trauma in any human ...

Marbury v Madison, is an early precedent that has been used to support judicial review. It demonstrated the responsibility of all arms of government as far as the preservation of constitutional values is concerned. It gave the courts the mandate to rule on the constitutionality of a legislative act. This has discouraged the legislature from voting in bills that are repugnant to the Constitution. This is by indicating that those acts that are repugnant to the constitution are not fit to be laws of the land. This is a great indicator of the superiority of the constitution. The decision and ...

Habeas Corpus and the war on Terror

The main reason why this essay has been written is to find out what habeas corpus means and its application in the war on terror especially at Guantanamo Bay and its detention camps. This writ, though not normally applied in federal courts, has been consequently used several times since the declaration of war on terror in 2001. This essay first examines the meaning of habeas corpus, provides the history of the writ in the United States and its use in the unlawful detentions. Second, this essay goes through the cases of Guantanamo Bay and sets to find out whether ...

Violations of Peremptory Norms committed by Syria

Abstract The unrest in Iraq and Egypt in early 2011, as well as the outbreak of a full-blown civil war in Syria later that same year, has led to an intricate web of interstate security dynamics. The civil war in Syria has extended unabated, killing more than 100,000 people and displacing millions more. Western military intervention with air strikes on the Assad regime may get forestalled with a possible UN-backed plan to counteract Syria's chemical arms stockpiles. The essay looks into the dishonor of the Peremptory Norms from the beginning of the crisis until now. The Peremptory Norms are ...

PSYCHOLOGY IN THE NEWS

Introduction For the purpose of doing an analysis, an article, called “psychologists to review role in detainee interrogations” was chosen. The article is relevant because it was published on November 13th 2014. The article mainly talks about the role that the association of psychologists played in interrogating detainees during the Era of president Bush. The article acknowledges that the detained were exposed to torture during the interrogation and that critics stated that psychologists were involved. It states the demand for answers prompted the association to conduct an independent study that will show whether the psychologists were involved in ...

Torture as a form of weapon has been in practice since ancient times and is a common tool used by the military to extract crucial information from enemy informants and spies. In the US, torture takes place at several different levels. Domestically, the US prison systems are the primary locations where select prisoners can be elaborately tortured in many different ways without the outside world having any knowledge of such happenings. This paper, however, will focus on the known use of torture in the past administrations, torture methods used by the US Military (especially offshore), some of the rules and regulations ...

Zero Dark Thirty is absolute thrill-ride starting from the very first shot of the movie till the last shot. Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Noel are one of the very few genuine creators in the cinema industry. Hurt Locker was a masterpiece. The amount of research and authenticity that the visionary director dedicated in the creation of this visual ecstasy is unbelievable. The writing of Mark Noel is crisp and flawless. The originality and the depth of the screenplay, story and acting is amazing. The facts and figures are mind-blowing. The skeleton of the movie is comprehension on some basic factors ...

The policing function in America is a non-military function involving civilian roles (Cordner and Scarborough, 2010). The role of the police in the United States is summed up as “to protect and serve”. This is an oversimplified version of the police role, but the true role of the police can be subdivided into two components: enforcement of law and maintenance of order across the nation (Castberg, 2002) Much of the police functions involves providing service rather than enforcing the law. The average police officer is never supposed to fire his weapon when delivering on his duties unless in extreme situations. ...

The RAMPART scandal led to a relation of diverse illegal operations, shootings and incrimination by some members of the L.A.P.D. The initial case was in 1997 during which an officer in duty, Lyga, killed his colleague, Gaines, in a road rage shootout. Lyga claimed that Gaines who was apparently connected to Death Row Records had initiated the shootout pointing the gun at him. This was connected to a bank robbery in November the same year during which another officer Mack in conjunction with his girlfriend working in the bank masterminded the robbery. In February 1998, a detainee Jimenez was mercilessly beaten by ...

Zero Dark Thirty is absolute thrill-ride starting from the very first shot of the movie till the last shot. Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Noel are one of the very few genuine creators in the cinema industry. Hurt Locker was a masterpiece. The amount of research and authenticity that the visionary director dedicated in the creation of this visual ecstasy is unbelievable. The writing of Mark Noel is crisp and flawless. The originality and the depth of the screenplay, story and acting is amazing. The facts and figures are mind-blowing. The skeleton of the movie is comprehension on some basic factors ...

For the past recent years, there has been domination of the Spanish public sphere by intense debates concerning historical memory and the restoration of the past, centered on the years of the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975) and the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and the conversion to democracy during the instantaneous post-Franco period. The early years following the new regime brought a silencing of the past injustices in order to simplify the nonviolent transition to democracy with commentators contending that "political absolution" got to be mistaken for "recorded amnesia" for the sake of national compromise. As an outcome, the stories of Republican ...

Assignment Question

Military psychology is a special branch of psychology whose psychological principles can be applied in the various subdivisions of military activities. The military psychologists work to enhance the lives of military officers and their families while away from home by giving clinical treatment (“A summary,” 2011). They may also offer support services to officers who are far from loved ones having been deployed to regions away from home, encountering foreign cultures and environments. In this task, the work of military psychologists will be tackled with a special emphasis on their role in the military interrogations subspecialty. Additionally, the main differences between ...

Upcoming therapists start as supervisees. Supervision has three major players namely the client, supervisee and the supervisor (Pope & Vasquez, 2010, p. 315). Without a clear guideline, relationships and agendas bringing together supervisees and supervisors can easily be confused (Pope & Vasquez, 2010, p. 315). In line with this, it is paramount to spell out the tasks, roles and responsibilities of both supervisees and supervisors (Pope & Vasquez, 2010, p. 315). It is paramount to note that some aspects of supervision may be similar to some forms of therapy. In addition, the supervisor takes charge of the supervisee’s growth, as well as ...

Introduction

Late open wellbeing exploration proposes that social prohibition, i.e., being denied access to assets, for example, instruction, lodging, and work, hurts wellbeing, and social consideration pushes prosperity. Upon inspection of the encounters of a populace habitually prohibited from standard public opinion, individuals coming back from penitentiary also jail with substance use issues, to comprehend their viewpoints on the knowledge of reentry and inspire their recommendations for strategies and projects that could better push individual and group prosperity. In late decades, neighborhood, state, and elected criminal equity, pill and other social arrangements have prompted an unstable build in rates of detainment. ...

Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington et al., Defendants/Appellees

Facts: Seven years prior to the decision, Albert W. Florence was arrested and sentenced to pay a fine. Florence later missed a payment, and an arrest warrant was issued. Florence then paid the fine, but the warrant was never rescinded. Two years later, when a trooper stopped Florence and his wife in their automobile, Florence was arrested on the basis of the warrant. Florence was taken to Burlington County Jail, where he was subjected to a strip search. Six days later, Florence was transferred to Essex County Correctional Facility, where he was made to disrobe and an officer looked at Florence’s hair, ...

The Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland is a publication by Jan Tomasz Gross in the year 2000. The book analyzes the events in the small town of Jedwabne around 1939. This was during the time when the Germans occupied Poland. The book looks at the manner in which the Polish non-Jewish inhabitants, on their own volition, decided to exterminate their Jewish neighbors during the year 1941. The author presents the causes of the massacre against the Jewish residents in Jedwabne by the neighbors who were non-Jews. In narrating the causes of the Jedwabne Jewish massacres, ...

Introduction

Torture is one of most intense human violence forms that result into both psychological and physical consequences. People use it in prisons as a manner of extracting useful information from terrorists and other detainees. Its use has been in existence for thousands of years, and it is still rife all across the globe. Research shows that torture has enduring negative effects at times on both the perpetrators and survivors (Miller, 2012). In addition, it is ineffective for obtaining reliable and substantial information during interrogation. Although many international codes and laws have undergone establishment in order to prohibit torture, it has ...

The struggle started with this news, when Hamid Karzai’s government quietly started to release prisoners from Bagram prison in 2013. Parwan Detention Facility or also called the Bagram Theater Internment Facility is located in U.S. airbase, in Bagram. This facility has a long dramatic history, were torturing dozens of prisoners were disclosed. The control of this prison was handed to Afghan Authorities in a small ceremony on September 10, 2012. Later the Afghan authorities started to classify the prisoners into two groups: The first group is identified as criminals and they’ll wait for criminal prosecution, the second group will ...

In the wake of 9/11 and the beginning of the War on Terror, the American public has developed a much more complex relationship with its government than ever before. Given the fears and security risks inherent to a non-government organization with no lines of citizenship, yet significant intent to harm the American people, many changes and reevaluations of civil liberties have taken place. Most important among these is the writ of habeas corpus, which has slowly been eroded in the past decade between Guantanamo Bay and the PATRIOT Act, leaving American citizens worried about their own freedom and sovereignty being threatened ...

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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base of the US Navy nowadays is no longer just one out of many American military facilities overseas. Since the War on Terror started after the tragedy of 9/11, it has become a symbol of this war, and quite a controversial one. Being located right at the gates of the USA, it has been and still is attracting considerable attention of the global community. Usage of Guantanamo Bay for detention and interrogation of persons, primarily from the Middle East, which are considered potentially or actually dangerous for the national ...

Introduction

Juvenile detention center commonly referred to as a juvie, is a high security residential service facility purposely designed for juvenile delinquents. In these facilities, the young adults who are barely 18 years of age are provided with special services both legal, social and psychological prior to their court hearings or their designated placements to specially created long term juvenile delinquents programs. These facilities are designed to manage the youngsters involved in acts of indecent conduct or instances that relates to criminal activities. The different court systems designed for juvenile delinquents are responsible for sentencing or holding juveniles into certain facilities or ...

Introduction

In the history of genocide crimes, the question of responsibility always crops up. International organizations of justice have always argued that responsibility for genocide and war crimes is a collective and individual responsibility. Everyone is responsible in their own right but also it is the duty of the society as a whole to work against forces that would otherwise promote occurrence of war atrocities. This paper is a comparative piece drawing evidences and incidents between the works of Slavenka Drakulic in the book “They Would Never Hurt A Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague” and Heda Margolius Kovaly works in ...

Civil liberties can be defined as freedoms and civil rights which give individual specific rights. Examples of these rights include freedom from forced labor and slavery, right to fair trial, right of privacy, right of liberty and freedom from torture and death, only to mention but a few. Habeas Corpus on the other hand can be defined as a court order (writ) which commands an official of a government or an individual who had detained or imprisoned another to produce him or her at a designated time and place. This is to enable a court to determine the whether the action was legal or ...

Terrorism in the United States, and all over the world, is sadly very common. Although there is no one universal definition for terrorist acts, the FBI does define it as “the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives” (Qtd. Allen, 2007). There are some events that may or may not fall under this definition, but a collective group of people still refer to them as acts of terrorism. There are some experts who believe that the events during ...

The events of 9/11 dramatically changed foreign policy and the treatment of national security in America. Given the organized and terror-based nature of the attacks, it was decided that a unique facility had to be created, isolated from the rest of the world, that would detain people of interest and enemy combatants. That place became the facility at Guantanamo Bay, where the United States maintains territorial control and has complete jurisdiction, despite the territory not being part of the United States. Since its creation and occupation by enemy combatants, questions have been raised as to the ethical treatment of prisoners ...

All roads lead to congress by Panagopoulos and Joshua provides an exploration of an oversimplified legislative process exploring the institutional and congressional procedures. There has been various important issues that have been omitted and overlooked particularly from the student view of the legislative process. For example, they focus on some important omitted and overlooked issues such as highway funding and legislative process and procedure within the congress halls. It provides readers with a dynamic perspective of the world of distributive politics and the legislative process and procedures. According to this book, the impact of the poor road system is presented ...

Introduction

An order of Habeas Corpus also known as the Great Writ is a Latin term which basically means produce the body. The writ is usually given by a court requiring a jailer to produce a prisoner before a judge within a certain period, failure of which exposes the jailer to legal sanctions for contempt of court. It has been touted for long as the bedrock of personal liberty in both the American and British legal systems. The objective of the writ is not to determine the innocence or otherwise of the detainee but rather to evaluate the lawfulness of such detention and whether it satisfies ...

Introduction

Australia is a nation that is well known to have people of different ethnic backgrounds due to immigrations from various countries and international students. When a country or community has people of different ethnicity there are bound to have their own traditions and customs thus will bring about culture shock when interacting with one another. Australia has been faced with a lot of racial discrimination claims from the beginning when the white settlers entered the country. The original occupants of Australia were the aborigines and the Torres Strait Islander. It is a well known fact that Australia is known for their harsh and ...

Political Science

Federman (2010, p.215) stated that the Writ of Habeas Corpus provides a mode of redress for violating the provisions of the due process law under the Constitution. Under the U.S. federal law, the writ has permitted the state prisoners who have been convicted to appeal their cases to the federal district court and question the basis for such judgment finding them guilty. However, it is mandatory for the federal habeas corpus courts to have jurisdiction over the subject matter before setting the case for hearing and issue a ruling based on the merits. In the event that the federal court shall ...

the War on Terror the War on Terror The writ of habeas corpus can be literally translated into “you should have the body.” The words “habeas corpus” were the original first words of a writ, or legal action, that was began in Anglo-Saxon common law. This writ was ordered by the king, and used when prisoners were to be moved from an outlining prison to the king’s court to testify (Robertson, 2002). It has evolved, however, into a means for prisoners to challenge their incarceration. Prior to the most recent legal developments in this area, the writ was ...

I. Executive Summary The present memorandum details an analysis and suggested response strategy to the recently disclosed American military activities within the Abu Ghraib detention center in Iraq. In forming the analysis, I provide a discussion of the major causative factors of the situation and an overview of the authorizing environment in place. The recommended response strategy details a five-step program to address the crisis in a way that acknowledges the issues and provides concrete actions to remedy the damage. Finally, this memorandum closes with a review of the lessons to be taken forward from this situation with the ultimate goal of ...

Introduction

Habeas corpus is defined as the writ in which the person who has been arrested faces trial to defend their innocence. This writ of habeas corpus is a term from the legal phrase called that you have the body. This is made into law in which it is a must for all who are detained to be taken to the courts and judged without any prejudice. This is a way for the jurisdiction to show people the reasons why they have arrested a person. The habeas corpus is a very important tool for the American and English laws especially when it comes to protecting ...

The Bush Administration established the Guantanamo Bay detention camp (hereafter GITMO) at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba in 2002 as a detainment facility for prisoners from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (Hotz, 2012). However, extensive use of GITMO started after 9/11 attacks, when, on September 14, 2001, President Bush declared a national emergency against international terrorism and the United States (US) Congress passed a resolution (S J Res 23 in Senate) to use force against 9/11 attackers and to deter and prevent acts of international terrorism (ThePoliticalGuide, 2013). Currently, hundreds of detainees are being held in GITMO as “enemy combatants,” ...