Bryan Stevenson (a death row attorney and founder/executive director of the "Equal Justice initiative) explains how America’s criminal justice system has been marred by two abhorrent practices: mass incarceration and extreme punishment.
Reading about how the system’s unpleasant treatment of poor African-Americans; single mothers (with minor children), children (as young as 13) and the mentally ill, faced extraordinarily excessive sentences for small crimes and sometimes for offenses they didn’t even commit back in the 1980s, was so heart-wrenching.
Even the most minor offenses (petty crime) could land them in jail for life.
We see these kids convicted as adults being sent to real prisons or given the death sentence, instead of placing them on juvenile correctional facilities, thus making majority of them face physical and sexual abuse.
And for those who don’t have the money to get the legal advice necessary for a fair trial, fall victim to a highly prejudicial system.
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