The Necessity for Reform in the U.S. Justice System
There is no such thing as a perfect justice system to enforce law and order in a nation for a simple reason: people are not perfect. Even the most well-trained, well-educated individuals in our justice system make mistakes. However, like everybody else, it is necessary our Justice System learns from its mistakes, and unfortunately there are many that have been made. A former criminal ( Link to Testimony ) openly testifies to how there where times when he personally witnessed officers and prison officials abusing their power. Though he confesses that the number of individual officers are in the minority, they are out they, and all too often, the system does not hold them accountable for their actions. The famous Stanford Prison Experiment illustrates how quickly people can be changed by the environment that they find themselves in, and the Jane Elliot's famous Brown Eyes/Blue Eyes experiment provides a first hand look at how quickly prejudice and and superio...