The Power of Guilty Verdicts There exists a world not too far from ours, a world where no one laughs, no one smiles, and no one has enjoyable thoughts. In this place there is nothing to be found other than a near endless maze with rows upon rows of cells lit by the only fluorescent light bulb which dangles ten feet high above your head, there is no natural sunlight to be perceived, the last glimpse of the warm life giving photons was left behind the moment one enters the large metallic doors of this sorrowed place. This is a place where the only thing to be seen are humans confined to a minuscule grey box barely large enough to live in and the only thing to be heard is the horrid, silent screams of the minds whom make this place home,
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If some told us that every man woman and child in the US pays 122 dollars to maintain a felon there would be an outcry. Yet the reality is just that, every man, woman, and child pays 122 dollars to maintain a felon. According to The Vera Institute of Justice (Source D) it cost taxpayers an average of twenty-five thousand dollars per inmate per year just to keep them alive, that’s half of what an average family makes in a year. If a judge told the jury of this cost to maintain a felon in prison it would be sure fire that the jury would consider better thing for that money and also what the convict could do, other than sit and rot away doing very little to be worth …show more content…
The man appeared to notice my approach and asked without raising his head in a commanding yet gentle voice: do you know what most powerful feeling in the world is? To my shock a old man most likely mid 50’s with thick light grey hair, a defined face structure, hazelnut eyes and shrivel lips appeared.The word “Regret” is what came off his dry shriveled lips. He had been serving twentyfive out of thirty year sentence for transporting five kilos of crystal meth. This conversation lead to one ending, he told me “If there was ever such a thing as a time machine, I would go back and never sold drugs. Since their will never be a such a thing as time machine… I will advocate
If some told us that every man woman and child in the US pays 122 dollars to maintain a felon there would be an outcry. Yet the reality is just that, every man, woman, and child pays 122 dollars to maintain a felon. According to The Vera Institute of Justice (Source D) it cost taxpayers an average of twenty-five thousand dollars per inmate per year just to keep them alive, that’s half of what an average family makes in a year. If a judge told the jury of this cost to maintain a felon in prison it would be sure fire that the jury would consider better thing for that money and also what the convict could do, other than sit and rot away doing very little to be worth …show more content…
The man appeared to notice my approach and asked without raising his head in a commanding yet gentle voice: do you know what most powerful feeling in the world is? To my shock a old man most likely mid 50’s with thick light grey hair, a defined face structure, hazelnut eyes and shrivel lips appeared.The word “Regret” is what came off his dry shriveled lips. He had been serving twentyfive out of thirty year sentence for transporting five kilos of crystal meth. This conversation lead to one ending, he told me “If there was ever such a thing as a time machine, I would go back and never sold drugs. Since their will never be a such a thing as time machine… I will advocate