Corruption in the Prison System With uncontrolled power, there is always corruption. This is especially true in todays’ prison system. In todays’ prison system, people held in power, such as prison guards, the warden, or even the judge, who rules over the case of a defendant, are a part of some type of corruption, no matter how big or small it is. The biggest problem of corruption in the prison system, is not the corruption itself, but people who can stop it, chooses not to either because they are either scared or a part of the corruption; this leaves the victims, who can’t help themselves, hopeless, even if they are criminals. This paper will elaborate on, to solve the problem of corruption in the prison system, I suggest that the best possible
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A lot of people are being put into hardcore prison for petty crimes, and those who can’t even afford a good lawyer receives a state assigned lawyer, who really don’t care for them. So, they are literally screwed over, because they are less fortunate. “One of the biggest things we can do to improve the prison system is to not only deal with things on the backend once people are already convicted and locked up, but actually address the massive amounts of injustice and other severe problems that exist at every level of our justice system, starting with how we enforce laws and how our police operate to how we provide legal defense and how we select juries, to how our judges are selected and rule over cases, and so on; this is of course so important and requires such enormous consideration of details regarding institutionalized racism, gender discrimination, political ideologies, funding, and other factors that I can't begin to get into it here in any way doing it real justice (no pun intended), but just know that whatever we do to our prisons to try to improve and fix them is just one battle in a larger war against injustice, inequality, corruption, ineffectiveness, inadequacy, and so on that plague our nation's entire legal system from one end to the other, and we won't truly win until we start looking at the root causes and the major damage as well as all the little symptoms along the way”, (Hughes,
A lot of people are being put into hardcore prison for petty crimes, and those who can’t even afford a good lawyer receives a state assigned lawyer, who really don’t care for them. So, they are literally screwed over, because they are less fortunate. “One of the biggest things we can do to improve the prison system is to not only deal with things on the backend once people are already convicted and locked up, but actually address the massive amounts of injustice and other severe problems that exist at every level of our justice system, starting with how we enforce laws and how our police operate to how we provide legal defense and how we select juries, to how our judges are selected and rule over cases, and so on; this is of course so important and requires such enormous consideration of details regarding institutionalized racism, gender discrimination, political ideologies, funding, and other factors that I can't begin to get into it here in any way doing it real justice (no pun intended), but just know that whatever we do to our prisons to try to improve and fix them is just one battle in a larger war against injustice, inequality, corruption, ineffectiveness, inadequacy, and so on that plague our nation's entire legal system from one end to the other, and we won't truly win until we start looking at the root causes and the major damage as well as all the little symptoms along the way”, (Hughes,