...Prisoners should absolutely not get less time for exchanging information with the federal government because of the misfortune that would befall on them otherwise from other prisoners. Being a labeled a snitch is the worse possible denomination an inmate could have due to the lack of trust other inmates would place on them. However, since people tend to choose what benefits them the most, it isn’t fair to assume that inmates are altruistic enough to care about others. Therefore, prisoners should not be allowed to decrease their sentencing through snitching due to a variety of reasons such as: losing street cred between fellow inmates, snitches getting stitches, and the prisoner’s dilemma effect taking place. Sure, getting a 6 year sentence cut down to 2 is great, however, betraying the fellow inmates locked up with the snitch is bound to make that the snitch would lose his street cred. Moreover, street cred is one of the most valuable non-tangible items one can obtain during their stay at prison. Since it allows an inmate the ability to live or die by his/her actions when dealing with federal authorities. The snitch would lose all of this important social worth amongst his peers, which in turn would make his prison stay much worse than he’d previously experience due to his snitching. Furthermore, as the old saying goes,...
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...that the community that should be having each others’ backs in the face of adversity are instead keeping their mouths shut under lock and key to save their own hides from the gangs and drug dealers that give snitches stitches (Teague). Philadelphia is known as the city of brotherly love but when did that...
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...blacked out eyes would come in and perform a bloodletting. The bloodletting consisted of placing leaches randomly on the afflicted one’s body, and allowing them to suck the sickness out of the host body. They would also place small incisions in precise placements to allow the “bad blood” to flow out of the infected body. More times than not, the patient died, but they always assumed it was because the infection was too far gone. Or even that the Devil himself had a hunger for that person’s soul. Even during the time of the black plague outbreaks, smallpox, cholera and the many other ramped diseases of the dark ages, the bloodletting practice was incorporated. Even during the Salem witch trials this method was instilled as a form of torture to get confessions of witchcraft form the accused, and also to try to rid them of the evil blood received from the devil. The practice was thought to have died out with the knights, nobles, and the kingdoms of old, and destroyed along with the witches…or so we thought. Fast forward many centuries from the dark ages to the modern days of the cell phone, laptops, hybrid cars, online dating websites, and modern medicine, and we arrive in Boston, Massachusetts, in about mid-October of 2014.A new wave a murders has hit the city. To this date here have been nineteen of these ritualistic type killings. All in the fashion of the bloodletting practice. And my luck just so has it that it is in my city, in my jurisdiction, on my beat, and the chief...
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