Just Mercy By Bryan Stevenson Summary

There are many vulnerable populations in the book “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson that I could have wrote about. Out of all the vulnerable populations I choose to write about the woman in jail. The women in this book went through a lot of heart ache and pain. One of the women in the book name was Marsha. Marsha was pregnant with her seventh child. One day she wasn’t feeling well so she decided to take a warm bathe to relax in the tub. The family didn’t tell anyone about her still birth and they keep a burial for the baby that only included them. One of her nosy neighbors contacted the police after noticing Marsha wasn’t pregnant anymore and didn’t have a baby. That made officers come to her house to question her. Marsha was …show more content…
In this prison the woman were raped, sexually harassed, abused, and assaulted by Correction Officers. Male Wardens were allowed in the showers during counts and the Chaplin was sexually assaulting woman in the chapel. Some of the woman got pregnant by the officers and DNA test proved the officers were the biological father of the imprisoned woman infants. The Officers who were reported multiple times would just relocate temporarily and end up back at the prison. How did this happen? How did other people working in the prison know and not say anything? How could women in jail get pregnant? give birth? and it be okay? Who did these DNA test that proved the officers raped the woman? Why weren’t they punished ? Aren’t males in jail for rape and sexual assault? The Employees in the Tutwiler were heartless for not saying anything and being in a environment where such evil things took place. My Conscious would have gotten to me even if I was scared to …show more content…
I would have loss my mind. It would have been the longest ten years of my life. No one cared about the mental or emotional health of the woman. The women couldn’t defend or stand up for themselves. There’s a part of the book that stated how Marsha felt about not being able to give her kids certain things so she showered them with love to make up for what she couldn’t give them, like any mother who loved their children. The feeling you get when you can’t provide for your children is devastating. It’s also one of the reasons why I’m a college student now. I could have easily committed a small crime or even no crime at all and still be given the same sentence as someone who committed murder or raped someone, which is very