Jail Bird -

Over the past few days in class, we read, watched, and discussed the criminal justice system. Cracks in the system become obvious as the film, that we watched, progressed. It seemed that most of the people in jail were minorities and were poor. Most of them had been in jail on several occasions. One inmate, who was in his 50s, said he had been in the system since he was 14 years old. He has become so dependent on the the environment that he has in jail, that he doesn't know how to live anywhere else. The system that we've created, doesn't allow for the inmates to ever get out. If we could come up with a way or an organization that would allow for the inmates to recover from any sort of addiction or to help them with mental or emotional disabilities, than I think that the number of inmates that the United States has, would dramatically decrease.