There were a lot of the things that surprised me in the book “Just Mercy” and made me feel an abundance of different emotions about our justice system. One of them was the mistreatment of a mentally disabled man confined to a wheelchair (Joe Sullivan). When Stevenson’ went to visit him he was astonished to see men locked in cages and one of them being Joe. The cage he was in along with his wheelchair was compressed so tightly it took a handful of officers and trusted inmates to get him out. Pulling out Joe and his wheelchair took several minutes all the while Joe was in a distressed emotional state. Before reading this book I used to believe that when someone commits a heinous crime that there would be solid evidence against the person
