“No one should ever be wrongfully deprived of their rights to liberty, and freedom without just cause, yet in the past 25 years alone thousands of people have been wrongfully convicted, and sentenced to tens of thousands of years in prison.” – Bernard B. Kerik
In the year of 1812, two brothers named Jesse, and Stephen were accused of killing a man named Russell Colvin in Manchester, VT. The brothers were sentenced to death in 1819, but the Boorns brothers were proven to be innocent in 1820, because Mr. Colvin hi was found alive in New Jersey. This was the first case of wrongful imprisonment in the United States on record. On August 09, 1974, Gerald R. Ford became the 38th U.S. president. This was the beginning of a great change in the criminal justice system. He enhanced the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, and authorized tactics like no knock warrants, wiretapping, and stop to frisk. Then in 1994, the crime bill was enacted, causing mass incarceration say’s the Brennan Center. Overall many convicts that are released from prison become repeat offenders. Felony records reveal that the main cause is no skills to use within the workforce. The research conducted by Harvard found that three years after an inmate’s release; 2 out of 3 are returned to prison from new criminal charges.
From 1991 until 2004 the participants in prison educational programs was 19% to 7%. The crime bill of 1994 stopped federal funding for prison educational programs say’s Wendy Sawyer of Prison Policy Initiative. Adriana Rezal of U.S. News World Reported that Negro Americans are incarcerated 5 times more than any other race, and or subrace. In 2017 there were 475,900 inmates who were Negro in the prison system according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. In 2019, the United States Federal Registry reported that the annual cost per inmate in federal prison is $35,347, in 2020 $39,158. The overall total as of 2020 is 5.8 billion, and the total for states is $43 Billion. The Death Penalty Information Center recorded that out of 185 inmates that were exonerated from death row since 1973 only 53% are Negro. At the end of the 2nd decade of the 21st century about 42% of inmates on death row were Negro. While the Negroid U.S. population makes up just 13% overall. The National Registry of Exonerations stated that, only 1,353 Negros have been exonerated since 1989, and on average Negros spend 13.8 years as wrongfully imprisoned inmates before being exonerated. Negro household’s median income in 2019 was $43,200 say’s Pew Research Center. That is a 7,853 deficit of a guaranteed income by federal, and state prisons as well as tax systems.
By clinical research the side effects differ for each individual person; incarceration is linked to mood disorders. The environment that a convict is sentenced to can cause damage to their mental health reports, the Prison Policy Organization. In 2022, these are the new laws for criminal justice reform: The First Step Implementation Act (S. 1014) of 2018 will be in vote to be amended to include more options that could reduce the population of the prison system, and the Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act that rejects acquitted defendant records to be included in a current trial. But there are no new laws to prevent wrongful imprisonment. An up, and coming comedian called Maurice Williams explains his personal story in the criminal justice system.
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“No one who worked in “Corrections” appeared to give any thought to the purpose of our being there, any more than a warehouse clerk would consider the meaning of a can of tomatoes, or try to help those tomatoes understand what the hell they were doing on the shelf.” – Piper Kerman
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