Essay On The American Justice System
What the American Justice System addresses is that sometimes the system pushes toward the wrong side. For example, it seems that the American Justice System would rather excuse a couple of innocent men and to punish an innocent man. Sometimes, they don’t have enough evidence to say who did a crime. So, the Justice System has many flaws that need to be addressed. I found the documentary, “Making a Murder” and the podcast, “Serial” very similar because in both stories the authorities made a big injustices by blaming the crime on someone that has a criminal record as the authority does not have enough proof to continue further investigation. Based on Criminal Justice Fact Sheet of NAACP “From 1980 to 2008, the number of people incarcerated in America quadrupled-from roughly 500,000 to 2.3 million people. Today, the US is 5% of the World population and has 25% of world prisoners.
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Combining the number of people in prison and jail with those under parole or probation supervision, 1 in every 31 adults, or 3.2 percent of the population is under some form of correctional control” (http://www.naacp.org).That means that America is one of the country with more prisoners in the word because just imagine how many prisoners are in the word, and America have the 25% of them.
On this is a good side of the page and a bad side of the page because imagine that the some criminals that really make a crime are being judge but and they are paying for what they did but what about the anes that are there. Accident like in the story about Steve Avery on “Making A Murder” he was in jail for 18 years for a crime that he did not committed and the police arrest him again for the crime of killing Teresa Halbach because they found evidence on Steve’s house, and I really think that they arrest him too just because the evidence and because he had a criminal
record.
In Serial, Adnan and Hae, the high schooler Adnan Syed was sentenced for the crime of killing Hae Min Lee, because they broke up and they found some evidence that he did it so they assumed that he was responsible for it but they did not have enough proof like the case of Steve Avery.
To fix this kind of problems I think that the authorities should have enough evidence and proof to send someone to jail. The authorities need to follow better protocol to ensure they do not commit an injustice. The case of Steve Avery was really sad when he spent 18 years in prison for no reason and the case of Adnan is kind of weird that he does not remember what happened to Hae.
Combining the number of people in prison and jail with those under parole or probation supervision, 1 in every 31 adults, or 3.2 percent of the population is under some form of correctional control” (http://www.naacp.org).That means that America is one of the country with more prisoners in the word because just imagine how many prisoners are in the word, and America have the 25% of them.
On this is a good side of the page and a bad side of the page because imagine that the some criminals that really make a crime are being judge but and they are paying for what they did but what about the anes that are there. Accident like in the story about Steve Avery on “Making A Murder” he was in jail for 18 years for a crime that he did not committed and the police arrest him again for the crime of killing Teresa Halbach because they found evidence on Steve’s house, and I really think that they arrest him too just because the evidence and because he had a criminal
record.
In Serial, Adnan and Hae, the high schooler Adnan Syed was sentenced for the crime of killing Hae Min Lee, because they broke up and they found some evidence that he did it so they assumed that he was responsible for it but they did not have enough proof like the case of Steve Avery.
To fix this kind of problems I think that the authorities should have enough evidence and proof to send someone to jail. The authorities need to follow better protocol to ensure they do not commit an injustice. The case of Steve Avery was really sad when he spent 18 years in prison for no reason and the case of Adnan is kind of weird that he does not remember what happened to Hae.