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Ernesto Miranda gets arrested without being told his rights so he was released from that sentence and the Miranda law was put into play so that wouldn't happen again
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President Lyndon Johnson creates the Presidents Crime Commision to help reform the criminal justice system
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Deep recession occurred along with economy dropping. This led to higher crime rates.
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Most Americans supported the death penalty
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Stanford University starts a study to determine human behavior in prison. The study had to be stopped because the prisoners showed acute mental distress because of the prison guards being extremely cruel.
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1,300 inmates took guards hostage at Attica prison. This lasted over four days and forty-three people died. This brought a lot of change for security measures.
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Supreme Court disassembled death penalty because it was ruled as cruel and unusual punishment.
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Number of inmates in the U.S. rose more than 500%.
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Robert Martinson's study concluded that prison rehabilition was not successful.
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Gregg vs. Georgia: Death penalty deemed constitutional.
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U.S. Congress lifts ban on convict labor.
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State of Texas begins executing convicts with lethal injections of chemical combinations.
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Juvenile crime increased.
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U.S. Congress passes the federal Three Strike Law.
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Alabama reinstates chain gang prison labor for the first time since the 1950s.
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Gary Gilmore becomes first person to be executed in the U.S. since 1968.
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Court bans executions for the mentally ill.
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Court bans death penalty for offenders who committed their crimes as juveniles.
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Supreme Court upholds use of lethal injection.
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Court rules death penalty can only be used for the crime of murder.
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Prisons become overpopulated and expensive so new options are being created and looked into such as the Victom Offender Mediation Program, the Capital EcOp (economic opportunities), I Can't We Can, different forms of probation and public humiliation
