Instances of infant abductions showcase the alarming lengths to which desperate individuals will go to acquire a child to call their own, highlighting the terrifying reality of this phenomenon.
Edward Lee Elmore served 29 years on death row for a crime he did not commit. In 2012, after 11’000 days in prison, he was finally a free man.
In 1924 Leopold and Loeb were tried for murder with a passionate twelve hour plea for mercy by their defence attorney, Clarence Darrow.
Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged at London’s Holloway Prison in 1955 influencing the final abolishment of capital punishment in the UK.
Research and understanding into teenage brain development is impacting how adolescents are dealt with in criminal cases.
If the aims of prisons are to punish, deter and rehabilitate in order to reduce reoffending rates, they are not working particularly well.
When a juvenile life without parole sentence is given, there is no reform, no rehabilitation and no chance of release. Life means life.
An assumption that the simple imprisonment of an individual away from their community will automatically produce a level of reform is naive. Prisons, it could be said, are communities of ...
