The Brock Turner Is Free After A Short Sentence

It is painfully obvious throughout Alexander’s book that our criminal justice system works to sweep through colored neighborhoods, lock them up, and label them as second-class citizens, making the New Jim Crow color-minded.

Underachievement, lack of inclusion, and backward progression within society is a trend that engulfs African American men constantly in the American society. There is a continuous struggle to break the persistent mold. Although many feel that the United States has overcome its racist history, the legacies of slavery and racism still affect our policies and practices today. Of the nearly 2.1 million adult men and women imprisoned in the United States, roughly 70% are persons of color (Minton, 2012). Within the criminal justice system, people of color are imprisoned disproportionately due to racist laws, are denied access to the rehabilitative options given to Whites, and are harassed and mistreated by U.S. agencies.

When we as people watch the news or read our newspapers, we can see that most of the criminals committing crimes are usually of African American or Hispanic descent. Society today even depicts people of color as criminals in all novels and comic books while white characters play the victim. It may seem as if the media only focuses on the crimes and pettiness involved with black people. What are included for Blacks to be more required in wrongdoing? How do African American stereotypes and racial profiling from societies new look on policing power?

From Plessy v. Ferguson to Meyer v. Nebraska, to Korematsu v. United States, the criminal justice system the fight for the civil rights of minorities has improved greatly. However, when looking at the statistics and rates of sentencing and incarceration over time, the

The Judiciary system encourages systematic criminalization of Blacks and mass incarceration as they contribute to keeping them in the cycle that oppresses them. In the 2016 Prison Policy Initiative article, “Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie” an attorney and advocate for social justice reform, Peter Wagner, summarizes the distribution of criminals and their convictions within federal, state, and local jails and prisons. 2.4 million people are incarcerated in the U.S., the highest amount of incarcerated people in the entire world. It is ironic given that

Due to the history of the United States, there are inherent biases within a myriad of institutions. One of these institutions which have policies which negatively affect minorities is the criminal justice system. There is an overrepresentation of African Americans and Latinos within prisons. Discrimination and prejudice have morphed throughout time to continue to keep individual without power. There are more African American adults in prison or jail, on probation or parole—than were enslaved in 1850 (Alexander. New Jim Crow.) Through the history of this country, this trend has developed to continue the disfranchisement of minorities. Legally it is acceptable to discriminate against criminals and Africans Americans and Latinos are viewed as criminals (Alexander). “Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination—employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, and exclusion from jury service—are suddenly legal” (Alexander). The United States prison population has quintupled in the last 30 years; now having the highest rate of incarceration in the whole world. This is mainly due to the unproportionate incarceration of minorities.

Mass incarceration has grown and developed so much, that it’s come to define and create fear in America’s minority communities. “America contains approximately 5% of the world’s population, but has 25% of the world’s incarcerated.” (DeVernay, 2016) There’s always been an underlying tension between minorities and authorities, and that’s due to the unjust discrimination they face in the eyes of the law.

The story of Brock Turner and Cory Batey days in trial will get you shocked once you hear it. There was no justice in the matter for Cory Batey a black college athlete who raped an unconscious woman at a party while intoxicated during his days in trial the jury and judge found him guilty of his crime and sentenced him 15 to 25 years in jail. When it comes to Brock Turner who had a similar crime; a college athlete who was intoxicated and raped an unconscious woman behind a dumpster but during his trial days the judge and jury sentenced him 6 months, 3 with good behavior. This is a prime example of how your race affects your sentencing in court. During their trial waiting Batey apologizes to his victim while turner’s actions doesn't

One way African Americans have a disadvantage in the criminal justice system is the arrest rates. Per chapter 4 in the Color of Justice book, it states that “66 percent of African Americans are more likely to be arrested before the age of 30” (Samuel Walker; Cassia Spohn; Miriam Delone, 2012, p. 172). Based on the statistics given, African Americans seem more likely to be targeted for an arrest. The population for the African American community only makes up for 13 percent of the United States, and out of that statistic, most them will be arrested. There should be a justification to the judicial system for this outrageous arrest rate on the African American community. Another way on how African Americans have a disadvantage through the criminal justice system is by the judicial system. Chapter seven in the “Color of Justice” book briefly describes the racial differences on how

For many years there has been a person who did petty crimes who were given sentences that doesn’t match the crime due to what race they are as well. For instance at a party one night a female college student had a little too much to drink. Once she decided to leave the party a young man followed her and raped her in an alley. Two bikers were riding by and witnessed the action and put a stop to it. When he went to trial for the crime he’d committed he received only six months of jail time, but really just did three months. Criminals should get time based on what they kind of crime they commit and not the color his/ her skin.

American society is a great nation made up of rich racial diversity, a situation that brings sensitivity on the way different races are treated, especially in the justice system. Statistics on the field of criminal justice shows unequal racial proportions of people arrested and charged in courts of law. The statistics trigger unfounded theories that some races, especially the African American race, are mistreated may be due to their skin color. The assumptions regarding unfairness in the justice system on lines of racial alignment may or may not be true, hence the need for more scrutiny. According to Justice On trial (n.d), in regard to the allegations on justice system, it is imperative that the stake holders in the justice system consider

Throught our hundreds of prisons in the United States, there are people who have been convicted of crimes that they did in fact not commit. And even with groups like the Justice Project doing their best to free these men and women, there will always be indivuduals who will serve a sentence meant for someone else. At the beginning of the semester, we were given a book on such a case titled Picking Cotton. Picking Cotton is more than just a book on a man who was wrongfully convicted of rape. It’s a book on the injustices faced by people everyday in the criminal justice system. While we may not to admit it, the majority of people who are facing these injustices are people of color. It was taught to us in class that as much as 60% of our prisons are populated by people of color. Our justice system, while it may be unintentional, is unequal when it comes to the treatment of whites and the treatment of people of color. Picking Cotton goes on to explain not only the unjustices that were faced by the defendandt, Ronald Cotton, but also the poor police work and innaporopriate treatement of Ronald throught the whole process.

Racism has a huge impact on society to this day. The greatest wrong doing in the U.S criminal justice system is that it is a race based organization where African Americans are specifically focused on and rebuffed in a considerably more forceful route than white individuals. Saying the Us criminal justice system is racist might be politically disputable in different ways. In any case, the actualities are debatable. Underneath I explain many cases of these issues. Information on race is available for each step of the criminal justice system – from the use of drugs, police stops, arrests, getting off on bail, legal representation, jury selection, trial, sentencing, prison, parole, and freedom.

To look closely at many of the mechanisms in American society is to observe the contradiction between constitutional equality and equality in practice. Several of these contradictions exist in the realm of racial equality. For example, Black s often get dealt an unfair hand in the criminal justice system. In The Real War on Crime, Steven Donziger explains,

American prisons have a disparity of minority inmate population, and one of the reasons this is so is because of the manner the judicial system operates. The investigator chose this topic because there are many African Americans and Hispanics that have been incarcerated for crimes they committed, as well as for crimes they didn’t commit, and because of their cultural background they were given severer sentencing. After performing the research the investigator found that many factors played a big part in the incarceration of minorities that included, ethnicity and gender. Although there is a high crime rate in minority areas, there are more