The disappearance of Caylee Anthony

It was the smell of rotting flesh that finally forced 22 year old Casey Anthony to deal with her biggest problem, her 2 year old daughter Caylee’s body. Casey Anthony apparently was so disassociated in regard to her actions that she just went on about her business until she was forced by the stench to do something.   After leaving the body in the car for a couple of days, then in the backyard for another day or so, she dumped the body.  
http://www.helium.com/items/2173588-casey-anthony-caylee-anthony-murder-trial-court-case-florida-courts-child-abuse-chloroform

Failures of the US Prison System

More and more prisons are built every year. The United States just cannot get enough of them. 
http://www.helium.com/items/2258979-failures-of-the-us-prison-system

Rehabilitate or punish: How should society treat criminals?

When the young go to prison, they are impressionable and still learning. If there is no organized method, learning will be sought by whatever means. The brain is programmed to constantly take new information and organize it, make it fit into the changing landscape.
http://www.helium.com/items/2260669-rehabilitation-or-punishment

What improvements are needed in today's prisons?

It would seem the worst of the worst go to prison, but such is not the case. Statistically, the United States locks up not only poor people, but a great many drug offenders. In 2005 there were two million inmates in the United States; of these two million, 25 percent were convicted on drug related charges. Drugwarfacts.org states that from 1990 to 2010 in federal prisons, drug convictions accounted for very close to half of all convictions. They state also that the amount of federal prisoners grew from 57,000 to 190,000 during this same time period.
http://www.helium.com/items/2276592-improvement-in-todays-prisons