The Failure Of The Criminal Justice System

While the wealthy continue to benefit from the failure of the system, the poor suffer. There is a double standard in who the criminal justice system chooses to punish. For example, a man who commits fraud, insider trading, etc., is charged with 109 felonies and only receives a maximum of 10 years in prison but only serves six. In comparison, a man who commits theft by stealing videocassettes from Walmart receives 50 years. Situations like these, raise the question as to who the criminal justice system truly benefits and who it does not. It is evident through this example that it does not benefit the poor. The system fails by creating implicit ideologies, distorted images of what is harmful, and biases; which all blind people from the greater