Justice; it is a word that is pertinent to anyone who lives in America. It stands for the very foundation in which the nation was founded on. It means that evil will be punished and the good shall be rewarded. Is that really the case, though? There are cases in which innocence gets punished and the guilty go free; this is not what the founding fathers were hoping for. In fact, the justice system of America today is slow, inefficient, and filled with much personal bias. It is not about whether justice is being done; it is about who gets the win for the case. For these reasons alone should the legal system in America be fixed or at least touched up.
Ever since America has begun its war on crime, the amount of people in jails have sky-rocketed exponentially. Some people might see this as a good crackdown on crime, but the reality is that it is costing the American people millions in taxes. In 1982, the amount the federal government spent on prisons was nine billion dollars; in 1999,......
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