In my personal opinion, some of the
biggest issues with the criminal “justice” system are flawed by the institution,
discriminatory, oppressive, and bias judgments.
The justices system is a profitable industry that exploits some so call
“criminals” who are minorities to cheap labor and debt. The huge majority of
criminal institutions are privately owned; by those who have only an economic
view of making a profit; not to help improve society and/or help those who are
incarcerated to become a better model citizen. When an individual have been
incarcerated in a privately owned institution, may be subjected to be charged
for the bare necessity to maintain a decent hygiene such as toothpaste, a bar
of soap, and so forth. Also, there are institutional programs that charges
inmates for room and board for their term of imprisonments in exchange for
permission to work. This is injustice that “criminals” face in private
institutions are motivated by greed not justice. Through the term of their sentence an inmate
may incur an enormous debt, reentering society with little to no opportunity to
improve their quality of life that may lead them back to crime. The system has
set up a vicious life cycle for those that have been incarcerated to have no
opportunity but to be a criminal again. It has recently come to my attention;
the criminal “justices” system we have is a system of oppression stemmed from
discrimination and bias judgments. The reason that I came to this conclusion,
if you are to observed regions where there are what to be consider high crime
rate areas and compared it to areas that are considered to have low rate of
crimes occurring, there is an issue when comparing the two. The issue from my
perspective is the dramatic difference of “justice-surveillance” provided the
different regions that are considered high and low rate crime occurring. Predominately there are heavily law
enforcement surveillance where there are mainly low-income and minorities
residence. There’s an old saying, “ you find trouble when you are looking for
it”, it is oblivious that there shall be higher crime rates in area there are
mainly low-income families and minorities, a method of oppression of minority
citizens because efforts of bringing justice is mainly focused on them.
Locations where that are considered to be low crime rate areas have low rate of
law surveillance; these areas are mainly high-income and white residence
regions. I believe that these issues are majors factors causing the criminal “justice”
system to ne injustice.
-418W
