American Justice


American Justice-What can be improved

By Bob Stewart

America does have some wonderful programmes which can turn lives around. Those whose lives had gone off the rails at some point have re entered society and society is all the better for it but there is still room for improvement.

Here are some suggestions:

1-Just locking up teenagers for virtually their whole life is a real cop out. They may have done wrong but the object has to be to reintegrate them into the community at some point and give them the opportunity to build a life for themselves on the outside.

2-A good idea would be to allow some of them to go on weekend leaves say one year from their release date to gradually get a feel of life on the outside.

As for responsibility for various crimes:

3-Whoever owns/in possession of a fire arm should be the person responsible for any outcomes which occur if someone is shot

4-Adults who supply drugs to minors should be made responsible for any crimes committed by the minor while on drugs.

Case review

5-There really should be an organisation whose responsibility is to review cases where there are mitigating circumstances because in the heat of the moment, a number of sentences are passed when everyone is emotional and not thinking rationally.

As for some of the school shootings in the US, has not anyone though about getting to the bottom of it and try to find the common denomonator in all of these shootings. It is obvious that some of these shooting are revenge shootings. Is it not time to teach kids how to deal with issues instead of taking it out on others? Issues such as school and cyber bullying are so common that the problem of school shootings is not going to go away anytime soon but is likely to get worse with the increasing inciodence of cyber bullying.

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