Criminal Justice System: A Necessary Analysis

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” understanding that issues targeting a single group of people can jeopardize society as a whole. Consequently, it’s important to recognize that as a nation we are presumably equal in the eyes of the law regardless of ethnicity or wealth. Yet even in modern day America our criminal justice system still incarcerates blacks at a much higher rate than their white counterparts, inevitably leading to a lifetime of imprisonment regardless of whether or not it’s behind bars.

Since the 1970’s the United States government has been imprisoning individuals at an alarming rate, jumping to 707 people per 100,000 in 2012 and increasing inmate population