Corruption In The Criminal Justice System
The criminal justice system has been altered in several ways to make it a fair system for all races, religions, and genders. Though this was the goal since the beginning, the system has not fully accomplished this. The justice system has become corrupt and incredibly unfair, especially to those of color. People of color are stereotyped and scrutinized excessively during their sentences. There are several cases that show how corrupt the justice system really is. The cases of Adam Bollenback, Brock Turner, and Kalief Browder, have revealed that the “justice” system has failed to be fair and needs to be completely altered in order to be a legitimate way of being sentenced. The first unfair sentence was of 17-year-old Adam Bollenback, who was sentenced to 10 years in an adult prison “after being
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“Mr. Browder was accused of stealing a backpack, a charge he strongly denied” (“The Death of Kalief Browder”). He went to Riker's Island jail complex without a trial and “because his family was unable to make bail, he remained at Rikers all that time, only to have the case dismissed” (“The Death of Kalief Browder”). He was 16 at the beginning of his sentence. For three years, he was held in solitary confinement. In these three years, he was “brutally assaulted by a guard; in another, he is attacked and beaten by a gang of inmates” (“The Death of Kalief Browder”). He received psychological trauma from this experience, which often caused him to attempt suicide several times. After he was released, he committed suicide at the young age of 22. Browder is one of those cases that most people look back on and realized they messed up immensely. The fact that an innocent teenager was kept alone for 2 years of his life is wrong and inhumane in many ways. He received so much trauma that it carried on after he was released. Why is it right to lock up a teenager in an adult prison, especially one that could be
“Mr. Browder was accused of stealing a backpack, a charge he strongly denied” (“The Death of Kalief Browder”). He went to Riker's Island jail complex without a trial and “because his family was unable to make bail, he remained at Rikers all that time, only to have the case dismissed” (“The Death of Kalief Browder”). He was 16 at the beginning of his sentence. For three years, he was held in solitary confinement. In these three years, he was “brutally assaulted by a guard; in another, he is attacked and beaten by a gang of inmates” (“The Death of Kalief Browder”). He received psychological trauma from this experience, which often caused him to attempt suicide several times. After he was released, he committed suicide at the young age of 22. Browder is one of those cases that most people look back on and realized they messed up immensely. The fact that an innocent teenager was kept alone for 2 years of his life is wrong and inhumane in many ways. He received so much trauma that it carried on after he was released. Why is it right to lock up a teenager in an adult prison, especially one that could be