Is Justice for Citizens or Criminals?

Abstract

How can we better the world? Murderers are free to roam our streets. They are allowed to sleep all day and eat food that hardworking taxpayers buy. First of all, we must set examples for our children. Teach them that our actions have real consequences. Use the criminals to showcase the results of the decisions we chose to make. For instance, do not wait years to execute prisoners that were sentenced to death. Show our future, they have to work hard to get the essentials needed to survive. We needed to illustrate money does not come free and easy. Have the inmates work for meals and privileges; furthermore, save the state some money by executing prisoner's sentenced to death as soon as possible. This is just beginning to making the world a better place to live.

Is Justice for Citizens or Criminals?

Justice - the principle of moral or ideal rightness (Webster 1997). Is this the word's true meaning? Today, it is simply a word we use to describe the actions of our judicial system. Is the punishment of criminals decided by the judges we elect, correct? Murders can walk free or sit in prisons to rot. It makes no sense; delinquents are killing people for no justifiable reasons and put back on the streets to kill again. As shown in the 1991 survey on inmates in State Correctional Facilities, more than fifty percent of the inmates currently imprisoned for violence had already been incarcerated less than years before for a violent crime. Is our judiciary system really just to law-abiding citizens or to criminals?

Criminals are allowed to take over our cities and terrorize the world. Murders have the ability to make bail as low as $2500.00. While attending several arraignments within the course of a year or more, they are out committing more crimes. A jury of the defendant's peers, not the victims, is chosen and trial begins. On the other hand, criminals can plea-bargain and reduce his or her sentence. The victim was not given a chance to plead for their life, so why should the murder? First time violent offenders are able to walk away with probation or sentenced to life. No matter what the judges decide, citizens are going to have to pay for the criminal's decisions and actions.

During their time of incarceration, prisoners are held in cells twenty-three hours and have recreation time for one hour. They are fed well-balanced meals. Some of them live in better conditions than the families they have destroyed. It is not fair, prisoner should be put to work and carry their load. Hard labor in the heat of the summer and the cold of the winter would do them some good. Have them to plant fruits and vegetables; raise cattle, chickens and hogs for their benefit. When the animals are to be killed, have the prisoners to complete the slaughtering process and prepare the food for the prison population. Cruel you say, but is it really? They are able to take the life of a human being but it is an awful thing to have them put food on their tables? Robert Grow said in the year of 1925 that, "The man with the lifeblood of another upon his hands is a menace to the life of every citizen. We should not have to feed and clothe the misfits that are corrupting our world.

The families of the victims have to endure pain, knowing the person that took the life