What does Serial say about our Justice system?
Serial shows that our justice system does not always work and is often times considered broken.
Locke, Phil. "Why I Think the US Justice System Is Broken - and Why It 's Not Getting Fixed."
Wrongful Convictions Blog. Ed. Nancy Petro. N.p., 20 Feb. 2013. Web. 16 Nov. 2015.
Summary: In this Article, Mr. Locke argues that there are fourteen reasons that the justice system is broken. While his first points are rather lengthy they get much shorter towards the end of the article. His first point is that bad lawyers are the first reason that our justice system is broken. He argues that many convicts don’t have the time to research lawyers, and the ones that are provided to them by the court are …show more content…
justice system. The author argues that there is complete disregard for due process in the immigration courts in Atlanta. No one in this “court” has a lawyer and can’t defend themselves because they cannot even speak the English language. The “Judge” does mass deportations, which are also not supposed to be done, and even sends some US citizens to their original country, even though they have been naturalized and are full legal US citizens. The judges don’t even question any of the inmates to find out if any of them are US …show more content…
They are deporting US citizens and doing it to clear out prison space for more people, and then making more money off of it for the deportations. For the 238 adjucators of the Immigration department, they have 390,000 cases(2009) in a year. That is an average of 4.48 cases per day., but if you take out vactions and days off that number is propbably closer to six or seven cases per day. This is probaly why many of the judges do mass deportations, so that they can not burn themselves out. But this is still a major break in our justice system. Another issue is that even though Immigration hearings are supposed to be open to the public, the buildings in which these hearings are held in are not open to the public. This can make it very hard to get the proper security clearances to view these different hearings and trial
Serial shows that our justice system does not always work and is often times considered broken.
Locke, Phil. "Why I Think the US Justice System Is Broken - and Why It 's Not Getting Fixed."
Wrongful Convictions Blog. Ed. Nancy Petro. N.p., 20 Feb. 2013. Web. 16 Nov. 2015.
Summary: In this Article, Mr. Locke argues that there are fourteen reasons that the justice system is broken. While his first points are rather lengthy they get much shorter towards the end of the article. His first point is that bad lawyers are the first reason that our justice system is broken. He argues that many convicts don’t have the time to research lawyers, and the ones that are provided to them by the court are …show more content…
justice system. The author argues that there is complete disregard for due process in the immigration courts in Atlanta. No one in this “court” has a lawyer and can’t defend themselves because they cannot even speak the English language. The “Judge” does mass deportations, which are also not supposed to be done, and even sends some US citizens to their original country, even though they have been naturalized and are full legal US citizens. The judges don’t even question any of the inmates to find out if any of them are US …show more content…
They are deporting US citizens and doing it to clear out prison space for more people, and then making more money off of it for the deportations. For the 238 adjucators of the Immigration department, they have 390,000 cases(2009) in a year. That is an average of 4.48 cases per day., but if you take out vactions and days off that number is propbably closer to six or seven cases per day. This is probaly why many of the judges do mass deportations, so that they can not burn themselves out. But this is still a major break in our justice system. Another issue is that even though Immigration hearings are supposed to be open to the public, the buildings in which these hearings are held in are not open to the public. This can make it very hard to get the proper security clearances to view these different hearings and trial