In “Worse than Slavery”, David Oshinsky tells a graphic story of the system adopted after the civil war in the south. He explains in detail how conflict labor was used as a form of replacement slavery against the blacks in Mississippi and throughout the south. Convict leasing and the system insi...

Criminal Justice or Injustice? The Declaration of Independence stated, "…all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…"(Jefferson). But how much of that is true? Since the very beginning of the legal system in the United States, there ha...

Hate In America On October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, was kidnapped from a bar by two men. While tied to a wooden ranch fence, he was beaten nearly to death with a .357 magnum handgun. Eighteen hours later, a passerby discovered him hanging there. He ...