Many of the inmates are serving years in prison for nonviolent drug related charges and most of the prisoners are minorities. In America …show more content…
For example, President Obama states “1 in 17 white men and 1 in 3 black men will end up in prison. It results in an unfair system; every study has shown that our institutions are biased.” For minorities the justice system today is not innocent until proven guilty, it’s guilty until proven innocent. Many color children suffer biases in comparison to their white peers. For example, President Obama states “An African American youth is more likely to be suspended from school, than a white youth engaging in the same activity.” In class we have read how Hispanic and Black students have higher suspension rate than their white peers. We also learned about the school-to-prison pipeline and how students that get more suspension have higher rate of ending in prison. This documentary has proven that minorities get sent to prison more often than whites do; minority students also get more suspension than white students. Thus, both the documentary and our readings prove that America’s justice systems are all biased to people of