Criminal Justice System Research Paper

OPPRESSION

The noose of oppression is a dark crude cycle that once you have entered there is little to no leaving. The justice system is a very oppressive cycle. The government is oppressive to everything. Poverty is very oppressing. Education in the US is the worst kind of oppression.

The justice system is full of racism. For a half century; since the peak of the Civil Rights Movement; the goal for racial economic fairness continues in the United States. Arguably the most powerful example of that struggle today is the growing move to end the system of mass incarceration. At the front is the struggle to tear down the US prison-industrial complex and to diminish its negative consequences; such as gang fights and social unfairness. If people …show more content…
With nearly seven million people in some sort of the criminal justice system. That's a huge problem itself, but there's more. Ex-convicts who have served their sentences in full; still face unfair laws and punishments called collateral consequences that stay with them for decades after their official sentence ends.

These laws prohibit the civil, social, and economic rights of former criminals, making reentering society much more difficult. It makes getting a job much harder. In some cases it leads to ex convicts doing crime again; sometimes to just stay alive. In some states, if you’re a felon, if you commit any crime, it’s automatically a life sentence which is unfair.

Poverty is also a very large oppressive force because by its nature it leaves its victim under the control of others. The fear of poverty controls its host into doing whatever it may take to keep from being poor and having to depend on others for their basic needs, whether that’s stealing or killing, poverty controls all these things.

The government controls everything. If the US Government would let the schools teach, a lot of these problems would disappear overtime. I say this because if the children do not get a good education. This leads to them not being able to get a good job. They eventually turn to

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