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The Criminal Justice System Pros And Cons

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The measure of our character is how we treat the poor, accused, and the people incarcerated. I learn the unfair system of simply punishing the broken to ensure that the person punished stays broken. For instance, when he spoke on the nine year old boy who killed his mother’s boyfriend and was tried as an adult only because the man killed was a county sheriff. When Bryan Stevenson went to see the little boy, he was only in jail for three days and he was beaten the first day, raped the second, and beaten again the third day. Although I am not righting the wrong of him shooting the officer, I feel as though he should not have been tried as an adult. Mr. Stevenson also brought to my attention there are 2.3 million people in prison in the United

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