Why do people admit to crimes they haven’t committed? We live in a broken society with a broken justice system. We abuse those who cannot support themselves and don’t offer them assistance when needed. Departments hone in on individuals who lack the mental capacity to understand or defend themselves. Many of these people include the mentally disabled and children. “Over 50 percent of inmates in the U.S. have a diagnosed mental illness (Stevenson, 2015, 188).” Children sentenced, often suffer trauma as well as mental illness. Trina Garnett, grew up in an abusive household with an alcoholic father. She was showing signs of disability as family left and her mother passed, this caused trauma and further disability. At fourteen, she accidently set
