AJ 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Op-Ed, The New Jim Crow

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Administration of Justice
• Course: AJ 2
• Professor: mauney

Document Summary

California death penalty reforms and savings initiative (2016) Requires non-capital defense attorneys to accept capital cases. Exempts prison officials from existing regulations for developing execution protocols. In his op-ed piece in favor of reforming the death penalty, mike ramos notes death row inmates spend their days in a single person cell with their own television, radio, and other luxury items. They are not required to work or pay restitution for their crimes. Death row inmates should be required to work in prison. Key things he thinks has contributed to mass incarceration. Five structural changes: policing the crisis, privatization, imprisonment redux, apartheid justice, criminalizing youth. Willie horton: released from prison to visit family on weekend, and committed murder during this vacation, become huge news. Become this rally cry for being tougher on prisoners, making sure horton case didn"t happen again. There is a real movement to be tougher on crime.