Is Justice Supposed To Be Fair And Unjust?

Justice is subjective from the person who is experiencing it. Justice is supposed to be blind not caring about race, ethnicity, or gender. Justice is supposed to be fair and should be rational to the crimes that one has committed. However, many have seen lady justice at work and believe that the system is corrupt and unjust. This may be true, but how much is one supposed to believe a criminal. The government was built on a system where one may be tried in court before sentencing. The purpose of this trial was to determine innocence or the subject being guilty. As the years progressed, many have seen that this system does not always work; picking out the areas of white from black. Gray areas have arisen from the inadequate justice system. One …show more content…
Some may say that these people in jail are there for a reason so they deserve to be treated cruelly, but what they do not know is some of the people in jail are innocent. Although it sounds like an oxymoron, some people in jail are innocent because of mistrials or unfair sentencing. Some of the prisoners might have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. In other words, prisoners are not always the bad people in society so subjecting them to cruel punishment like solitary confinement is inhuman. This is not the only form of torture in prisons. The guards treat prisoners poorly trying to evoke and anger them. When angered the prisoners get punished and might get more time on their sentence. The guards do this to make themselves feel more superior to the prisoners. Another form of prison torture is the food itself. Some prisons serve food that is barely edible for human consumption. The food gets most prisoners sick. The only way to get food that is not repulsive to eat is to buy it from the store within the prison or have family members bring sealed food into the prison. Finally, the conditions that the prisoners have to live in are close to