Lsc Restrictions

It is not fourscore, but seven score and five years later that the controversy which comprised the American Civil War still smolders, the ashes of which still leave a bitter taste in the proverbial mouths on both side of the Mason-Dixon Line. I will present several arguments which lend support that this great land of Lady Liberty and her

Within the criminal justice system, officials abuse their power. The officials of the justice system have a duty to protect and perform their duties with unbiased decision making. The abuse of power jeopardizes people’s lives who are not able to sustain oneself and their families. Some people do not understand that poorer people find themselves in jail more and once a person is released, that person is subjected to return to jail for the amount of money owed to the state. There are many obstacles for the poor, especially those of color. People of color are treated unfairly in the justice system, from the arrest, the sentencing, and the release. The criminal justice system is supposed to be just but that is not the case. The criminal justice system allows for the police, public defenders, and judges to bend the laws and not be punished for their actions or that apologizes can fix the wrong that has been done. This paper will discuss the abuse of power from the justice system and the solutions to rectify the damages.

A competing argument is that although expenses are high when it comes to legal aid, that is how it should be. For those that can afford justice deserve it. Wealthy families harbor the view that the legal aid agencies are provided with the tax payers dollar for those who cannot afford to be adequately represented and perhaps that if people are truly masters of teir fate that they would either have not been in such a situation or should have the means by which to solve it.

More than ever people are losing access to justice. Even though the global economic crisis affected everyone, and every jurisdictions budget there needs to be a minimum level of funding for legal aid to protect the rights of those that cannot afford legal aid (Hainsworth, 2010). According to Hainsworth, (2010) the Canadian Bar Association has asked for national standards for legal aid, just like there are standards for health care and education. The CBA believes legal aid reform is needed to ensure access to justice for low income people, it also believes funding must be increased and national standards for eligibility and civil coverage are necessary to make the system function properly again.

Throughout the riveting and eye-opening memoir, Just Mercy, by influential lawyer Bryan Stevenson readers are given a real insight on the predominance of racial minorities on crime sentencings. He opens up on the taboo topics of prejudice and sentencing the poor and weak simply because it’s convenient. This is re-affirmed through New York Times article by Shaila Dewan, “Court by Court, Lawyers Fight Policies that Fall Heavily on the Poor,” where she point blank states “[the justice system] is waging a guerilla campaign to reserve what they consider unconstitutional practices that penalize the poor.” In addition to both of these sources, the video “Keeping the Poor Out of Jail” by Kassie Bracken and Jessica Naudziunas, two Harvard law school students, upholds the same beliefs about inequality as they take on local justice systems and current policies targeting the poor. Although the fourteenth amendment states no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws poverty remains to be an exception to some degree. Those living in poverty lack the same equality as the rest of the US, not being given fair chances in trials or overly punished for their lack of resources. There needs to be an improvement in our justice system so we can eliminate the injustice on the impoverished, whether it be a more involved state-provided lawyer or an adequate, unbiased, and

Significance: This allows the state/city governments to use the money in a general sense, so they can spend it where they need to.

Legal inequality is an injustice that people of color have been subject to for years. In the US, racial discrimination against people of color in the justice system such as mass incarceration and racial profiling generates a wide variety of public issues that influence the life possibilities of the Latino and Black communities. Laws were created in an effort to ensure the safety and stability of everyone everywhere. With that being said, however, the laws did and do not always have the best interest of certain races in mind. In the book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration and Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander discusses legal inequality in relation to race by asserting that the legal system discriminates against people of color, specifically African Americans, just like they were treated during the Jim Crow era. Legal Equality can be defined as individuals having the same resources and rights available to them equally and on the same level, regardless of race. This paper will argue that the U.S. legal system targets people of color through incarceration, the War on Drugs, and racial segregation.

In America, the poor and uneducated a disproportionally represented in the eyes of the law. We are supposed to be a country that builds each other up, and stops at nothing until each person succeeds. Whether that be by race, gender, sexuality, or age. Unfortunately, that is not the case for most Americans, especially those who are poor and uneducated. While the law plays a bigger role in their lives, more than the average middle class American, poor and uneducated people are not properly represented by the law. A great example of the misrepresentation is in the case of the Buffalo Creek Disaster vs the Pittston and Buffalo Coal Company. In this paper, I will discuss, the history of judge’s decision in cases where minorities and lower class were involved, the history of the wage income and education rate in West Virginia, and how law affects lower class communities. It is my opinion that if West Virginia were a community of high class persons, the treatment received from the Piston company and the Buffalo Coal company would have been different.

Mass Incarceration is a growing dilemma in the United States that populates our prisons at an alarming rate. Michelle Alexander is a professor at Ohio State University and a graduate of Stanford law school. She states in her award winning book, The new Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness “In less than thirty years, the U.S. penal population exploded from around 300,000 to more than 2 million” (Alexander, 6). These young men and women are unable to afford a decent lawyer because they come from such a poverty-stricken background. Men and women are at a financial disadvantage in our justice system. Lawyers and attorneys cost a fortune and most people can just simply not afford them. Others plead to their charges because

The event’s objective is to increase the success rate of black student lawyers as they go through the challenges of law school. This is the 13th year of the conference and the organizers has planned and packed a productive

The American criminal justice system has been augmented since its founding with more stress on individual rights and increased requirements on those in the field of the administration of justice, including plaintiffs’

Although much has changed in the United States over the past 60 years, this country’s legal system has failed at providing justice for all people.

The purpose of this needs assessment is to identify areas where enhancements in the health care delivery system can improve both the accessibility of care as well as guide preventive health services for those most at risk for poor health outcomes. While needs assessments bring attention to the underlying factors associated with good or poor health status and sufficient access to care, LSCC is uniquely positioned as a FQHC serving almost 80,000 Central Texas residents to improve population health by forming strategic partnerships and innovative collaborations with not only other health care providers and health-related organizations, but local and state governments and community-based organizations as well. The following section identifies

It is a late summer morning and without air conditioning the environment at the not-for-profit law center, Northern County Legal Services (NCLS), is reminiscent of an overcrowded Department of Motor Vehicle office. The center does not have a variety of comfortable places to sit as chairs were donated or purchased. The aesthetics of the center, the lack of efficiency, and the frustration of the volunteers surely sets a negative tone for the customers who are already frustrated due to their legal woes. Customers are there to receive assistance with domestic violence, employment, family or housing law. Tempers flare among surly but needy customers who often are forced to wait past their

Although the Southern United States is considered to be the death belt of the country due to the lack of public defender programs, many other regions within the U.S. such as the West have more exceptional public defender programs. Young lawyers are usually the advocates who go to these offices and provide fair representation to poor people accused of crimes. This lack of proper representation is absent in the South, which is in need of quality