FINALS

[needamocha]

Final tomorrow, 8 AM. I've been studying it up in the library for far too long. I have all these facts running around in my brain, and with my professor's permission, tomorrow at 10:30 I can start forgetting them.

For instance, I can tell you that:

• in the last 20 years the incarceration rate in the US has increased by 400 per cent.
• the US has

Comments

[troyface]

What class is that for? Sounds like a lot of interesting statistics. I can't believe it costs 5 times more to execute someone than keep them in prison! Where does all the cost come from?!

[needamocha]

It is for LSJ 375: crime, politics, and justice. the high cost comes from all the appeals. 68% of death row inmates get their sentences lowered from death to life in prison without possibility of parole.

[commiesmurfette]

If you get a chance and have not already read it in class, you should check out "Assembly Line Justice." It is an article written by the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. We read it for Constitutional Law. It's about indigent defendants in Mississippi; probably the worst place in the country for poor African American defendants.

[needamocha]

We actually read that in our class. We also read about a case in Georgia in the early 1990s where the defense attorney slept through the trial, and offered no counter arguments. After the trial when asked why he replied, "he's just a N-- boy." That, my friends is the state of our criminal justice system. And at the end of the day it is acting in each of our names. "The people v. (insert defendant here)"