It is hardly debatable that criminal justice system is flawed. There is a significant population that believes in a principle of Blackstone’s formulation set forth by English jurist William Blackstone that express “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”(Blackstone). In reality, American criminal justice system continues to make wrongful convictions. Innocents are then compelled to serve their punishment in prison. Unless specified by the court, parole eligibility takes place when one third of the time is served in prison. In numerous cases, prisoners are given the choice in between granting parole in exchange of admitting guilt or remaining imprisoned and upholding the truth. A parole board should help prisoners
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Wrong convictions occur due to various factors. Factors such as lying by eye witness, forensic evidence errors and prosecutors withholding and manipulating evidence. Upon admission of guilt by a prisoner, those people who were involved in wrong conviction get away from law and order. Moreover, those concerned parties will continue to act against law. As a result, more innocent people will have to face severe punishment to the crimes they never committed. They spend time within prison bars away from their family members, lost years with spouse and kids. The time where they could have been a successful person within a society, a role model parents and good life partner is taken away from them because of wrong conviction. If a wrong conviction is made and the prisoner does not accept guilt and later is found innocent, there is a monetary compensation for the prisoner. A lot of time the task of parole board is seen as to reduce this compensation by means of compelling innocent prisoner to admit guilt. Once the guilt is admitted, prisoners are no longer entitled to receive any monetary compensation. Perhaps, the parole board does not want innocent prisoners to receive any money and is therefore compelling them to confess. Further, any prisoner regardless of being guilty or not should not be lured into the benefit of setting them free by compelling them to confess to a …show more content…
However, if an inmate is ready to be released in every way but claims he did not commit the crime; it clearly makes sense not to use this claim to prevent an otherwise suitable candidate from release. (Snyder)
As Snyder said, parole board should definitely not be the place to retigate the facts and evidence. Instead parole board should concentrate more upon helping prisoners with problems they face concerning residence, reestablishment in the society, employment troubles and so forth upon release from prison.
Instead of scrutinizing on where justice failed in the case of prisoners for whom there is substantial evidence of innocence, parole board wanting prisoner to admit guilt as a prerequisite for parole is a foolish. Each year the number of wrong conviction is raising and parole board keeps denying applicants of prisoners who maintain their innocence. Parole board should revisit their guidelines and should not decide whether to grant parole based upon the admittance of guilt by
Wrong convictions occur due to various factors. Factors such as lying by eye witness, forensic evidence errors and prosecutors withholding and manipulating evidence. Upon admission of guilt by a prisoner, those people who were involved in wrong conviction get away from law and order. Moreover, those concerned parties will continue to act against law. As a result, more innocent people will have to face severe punishment to the crimes they never committed. They spend time within prison bars away from their family members, lost years with spouse and kids. The time where they could have been a successful person within a society, a role model parents and good life partner is taken away from them because of wrong conviction. If a wrong conviction is made and the prisoner does not accept guilt and later is found innocent, there is a monetary compensation for the prisoner. A lot of time the task of parole board is seen as to reduce this compensation by means of compelling innocent prisoner to admit guilt. Once the guilt is admitted, prisoners are no longer entitled to receive any monetary compensation. Perhaps, the parole board does not want innocent prisoners to receive any money and is therefore compelling them to confess. Further, any prisoner regardless of being guilty or not should not be lured into the benefit of setting them free by compelling them to confess to a …show more content…
However, if an inmate is ready to be released in every way but claims he did not commit the crime; it clearly makes sense not to use this claim to prevent an otherwise suitable candidate from release. (Snyder)
As Snyder said, parole board should definitely not be the place to retigate the facts and evidence. Instead parole board should concentrate more upon helping prisoners with problems they face concerning residence, reestablishment in the society, employment troubles and so forth upon release from prison.
Instead of scrutinizing on where justice failed in the case of prisoners for whom there is substantial evidence of innocence, parole board wanting prisoner to admit guilt as a prerequisite for parole is a foolish. Each year the number of wrong conviction is raising and parole board keeps denying applicants of prisoners who maintain their innocence. Parole board should revisit their guidelines and should not decide whether to grant parole based upon the admittance of guilt by