Criminal Kids Life Sentence, Children In Prison Analysis
In the documentary, “Criminal Kids Life Sentence, Children in Prison Documentary”, published on Youtube in 2016, discusses about the cruelty death row punishment kids faced in the United States Juvenile Justice System before the year 2010, and still do if the crime is any higher than murder now.. “The United States is the only country in the world that condemns children for life in prison.” quoted as part of the documentary. The social problems addressed in this documentary include juvenile delinquency, low-income families, kids becoming a part of the govt. debtors’ prison, criminology, and corruption in our justice system. The major theoretical approaches conflict theory, “which emphasizes the role of coercion and power in producing social
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During Young’s resentencing, two police officers, two witnesses, a psychologist, a letter, his family and attorney appeared during the decision of release or a shortened sentence. The resentencing testimony took a long period of time before th judge made a decision. After hearing Young’s testimony of rehabilitaion, an apologized testimony to his witnesse, which he lived with regret and remorse, still gave the judge no pity or mercy on his resentencing. In quote the judge said, “If I released you today, I might as well give you the key to the city, a parade, and a dinner at Burns. It is a gift, and you do not deserve it.” The inialitive correlation of these armed robberies ties back to Bethea, who is later mentioned to be the crack cocaine dealer of Young’s Mother, Stephanie. Bethea threathed Young to help him rob motels or else he would have killed both Young and his mother. After hearing all sides and all witnesses in the hearing, the judged reduced the sentence to 30 more years in confinement and 10 years of probation with “good behavior”. Kenneth Young will be released in 2030, so by the time he is 45 years old. They mentioned that the average african american lives up to 50-72 years, and found this “fair”. His mother and attorney, Paolo Annino is still
During Young’s resentencing, two police officers, two witnesses, a psychologist, a letter, his family and attorney appeared during the decision of release or a shortened sentence. The resentencing testimony took a long period of time before th judge made a decision. After hearing Young’s testimony of rehabilitaion, an apologized testimony to his witnesse, which he lived with regret and remorse, still gave the judge no pity or mercy on his resentencing. In quote the judge said, “If I released you today, I might as well give you the key to the city, a parade, and a dinner at Burns. It is a gift, and you do not deserve it.” The inialitive correlation of these armed robberies ties back to Bethea, who is later mentioned to be the crack cocaine dealer of Young’s Mother, Stephanie. Bethea threathed Young to help him rob motels or else he would have killed both Young and his mother. After hearing all sides and all witnesses in the hearing, the judged reduced the sentence to 30 more years in confinement and 10 years of probation with “good behavior”. Kenneth Young will be released in 2030, so by the time he is 45 years old. They mentioned that the average african american lives up to 50-72 years, and found this “fair”. His mother and attorney, Paolo Annino is still