When I got involved in The Injustice System I did not realize the extent of the horrors in the system. The more I looked into it the more I was shocked and appalled at or system of “Justice.”
What is Justice? Does it exist? Is it something for most of us but not for many of us? If you are poor what are the odds that you will receive justice? I hope that this book will answer these questions. I hope that this book will make you and others think about the problems in the system and help change the system.
Some things you need to know.
The system is not for the poor. If you are poor and you are accused of a crime you did not commit the odds are against you. If you are Black, Arabic or Hispanic the odds get worse.
You are supplied with an attorney who in many cases is not only incompetent but works with the prosecution against the you. He does not cross examine witnesses, use the discovery procedures, or call witnesses for the defense.
The prosecution in many cases will not call witnesses because they said someone else did it. They hide this fact from the defense or the defense does not act on this. DNA evidence has been left out of the trial that would clear the defendant.
Jail house snitches: If you are on a jury and the prosecution calls a jail house snitch the odds are that he is lying to get a light sentence or freedom. There are those who commit crimes and become jail house snitches in order to get back on the streets to continue their chosen professions. In most cases they are told what the prosecutor wants them to say and they say it no matter what the truth is. Everyone knows they are lying except for the jury. If you are on the jury and they use a snitch do not vote for a guilty verdict because the odds are that the accused is innocent at least there is a big chance that he is being railroaded by the prosecution.
In many cases the person who committed the crime is the prosecutor’s main witness against the accused. The sad thing is that the prosecution knows this. They give the guilty person immunity to testify against the innocent person.
It is easier to convict an innocent person in many cases than to convict a guilty person. It can be difficult to get the evidence together to prove the case so evidence is fabricated or in the case of evidence that points or the innocence of the person is left out of the trial.
I will be giving you case summaries that will make your skin crawl. More about these cases are on the web site for The Injustice System. Please look at the site as you read the book. Together they will show you that our system is not only flawed but it is full of corruption. You will see that parts of our country are not free but run by despots who are not any better than Adolph Hitler and others dictators from the past. There are people in our country that live in police states who are in constant fear to say anything.
What can you do about this? Write your Congressperson and tell them you want action. You can quote this book or web pages from the web site. Take the time to investigate those who are running for office. If there is a hint of corruption do not vote for them. It is better to be safe than sorry.
If you know of other cases of abuse of the system, contact me and I will add it to the web site. Feel free to name names but remember those who are corrupt have been known to fight back and they do not hesitate to abuse the law to get back at those who oppose them. You can remain anonymous but I do want to have access to evidence.
I have been accused of playing the race card in some of my writings. I have been told that most of the innocent and most of those on death row are white. If you look at percentages you will find that the percentage of blacks and Hispanics on death row is much higher than whites. In many of the innocence and death row cases they would not be there if they were not minorities. They were framed because of the color of their skin.
The attitudes of many in small towns throughout the country have not changed in over 100 years. There are many small towns that are still run by the sheriff and the good old boys. Anyone black or white who pisses them off has a chance of ending up in prison or killed.
Angola, Louisiana has a prison that is on an old plantation. The family that owned the plantation still lives there and is employed by the prison. The prison is run like a plantation with the prisoners as slaves. Slavery is legal in the case of prisoners.
Prisoners are beaten and forced to work when they are physically unfit for work. A man was sent to work in the fields soon after surgery for a hernia. The stitches came loose and it took them a month to get him back to the hospital.
They still use a horse drawn hearse for the convicts who die in Angola, LA.
After reading this book and looking at the web site I think you will realize that our country is one of the worst when it comes to human rights and the treatment of prisoners.
What is The Injustice System? It is a web site, a book, a dream and a hope. It is my hope that because of it the system will become a justice system. No matter who or what you are you will get justice.
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Lee, What an insightful, well thought out and well written article. I know the man you spoke of reguarding his hernia surgery. I believe it is George Mullenex as I read his story and the way the plantation is run. One of the things they produce in Angola is the tags for our license plates. The cost of these tags costs $2.00 to produce as there is no labor cost involved. Yet we pay $30.00 plus for them. I personally just renewed my tags and they were $99.00. and not one penny goes back into benefitting those inmates that produced them. There has to be something we can do.
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