As a young black male, Mark Jackson worries about police violence every day. He hopes the next president will bring more accountability to the nati...
Race and punishment, two things that you would have thought to be completly different. But now adays seem so dependant on eachother
The government's job is to serve the people, not fight within itself.
The American justice system should be restructured to prioritize crimes in order of seriousness, and have pre-determined jail times for each crime.
The Juvenile Justice System is flawed and we need a better way to truly discipline children, not endanger them.
This letter discusses the need of change to our current situation in regards to homelessness. Read about how we can change our country as a whole.
Some effects of cutting recess and the impact it leaves on kids
The death penalty is unfair, unconstitutional, and ineffective. This needs to change.
Prisoners being released early from prison for violent or harmful offenses is a serious problem in our justice system, especially when many people ...
We need to denormalize male sexual violence and put an end to rape and rape culture in America.
In my letter I talk about how rape is treated and how we should change the punishments.
Abortion is an issue that has been overlooked in the United States because it is a crime that has been allowed for too long. It is immoral because ...
Could the gun laws be changed or even rewrote? The gun laws are slipping and it's time they get changed.
I believe that in order for our country to efficiently solve problems and create a better country for ourselves and future generations, we need to ...
The United States has been facing increasing problems with illegal immigration that have gone on for too long. Illegal immigration is the issue tha...
The criminal justice system is becoming more unfair for this country more and more every day.
Immigration is truly degrading our country as a whole. We have heard over and over that we need to do something about immigration and it is about t...
I believe that animals should have rights that they deserve; we as people are also animals.
Pennies are weighing down our pockets and our nation. It's time to take a stand.
The children of our nation are confined to certain education standards based on skin tone or socioeconomic status. It is up to the next president t...
Improving the United States Justice System.
If we don't improve the North Carolina Judicial System, how many lives will be affected in a negative way?
In this day in age police brutality shouldn't be a problem but with social media shinning a light on how bad things are is making things complicate...
The justice system has jailed many criminals since the first opening case, but is our own people in the court house being biased towards the minori...
Police Brutality is a growing issue in our nation that needs a valid, long-term solution.
This letter draws attention to the transgressions in the federal court system about the punishments given when a person is charged with a DWI or a ...
The foster care system is full of many issues and those problems need to be addressed.
I am writing to inform you of issues in our country that I believe should be fixed. It arose in New York City’s Police Department and it involves t...
In an America where Black Men are slain in the streets by law enforcement, I ask the next president to take the initiative to change this pattern.
"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~ Malcolm X
The United States needs to implement more rehabilitation services for inmates and individuals in the criminal justice system.
In this letter you will read about immigrants like me who should receive citizenship and why we deserve it.
The death penalty does more harm than good. The government should not have the right to take a life, it is not fair to pass a flawed system. You sh...
America needs to step in to help Dalits over in India who are suffering from discrimination due to India's caste system.
Native American problems have long been overlooked by society, something that is extremely prevalent today due to the problems with the Dakota Acce...
The justice system favors one party over the other because they focus more on identifying the criminal before breaking the law rather than their ac...
Jesus and other Christian-related subjects are becoming taboo in public schools.
Racism and prejudice run wild in our criminal justice system, and it needs to be fixed.
We need more orphanages.
Schools need a change.
Bring justice to Washington
Some classes have gone out of date.
The United States' education system is disastrous.
Our country is dividing ourselves into groups rather than working together to fix our problems. I do not want to you tolerate me, I want you to acc...
Compared to White people, Black people are getting the bad end of the stick when it comes to law enforcement.
We as Americans, take almost everything as granted. Whether it may be the food on the table, the clothes on our body, or most importantly the abund...
The economic and social benefits of marijuana legalization.
I believe the future president should make racial disparities between criminal sentences a top priority.
Our Foster Care System needs reform. The life of liberty and luxury is taken for granted. There are children in the United States who have never ...
A life changing crime with a punishment way too small
Women should have the option to have an abortion but that doesn't mean that's always the best idea.
Many judges these days are giving harsher or more lenient sentences based on the race, gender, sexuality, religion, or social class of the offender.
In many cases, capital punishment is unjust because many people are falsely accused and some not treated equally due to the circumstances of how t...
Concerned by recent cases in which police officers accused of violent crimes are acquitted in court, Jackie Payne wants the next president to addre...
The burden of being raped, sexually harassed, or sexual abused is not understood in America, leading to problems with our justice system and rapist...
Inequality in the criminal court system
This letter outlines the complexity of the death penalty in the U.S and why it may not be as simple as it seems it should be.
In my letter to the president, I will address multiple topics including: immigration, race, and other influential and controversial themes.
Without this simple thing, our country will be in ruins.
rape needs to stop
A letter from Journae Jones.
Children are lost and hungry and sad all the time
National debt
The Issue of Gender pay inequality has been an issue plaguing the United States of America for too long, with women pulling the short straw since o...
The mandatory minimum prison sentencing is unfair for people who have done minor crimes and it needs to be changed.
I feel that the issue of racial profiling in America is a topic that needs to be discussed. I feel that discriminating against people because of th...
Believe it or not, younger teens these days really do care about politics and what goes on with our government, but they can' affect what goes on. ...
The problem with permanent change of station (PCS) in the military.
In today's society, whatever we thought was fair in the penal system is actually wrong; we aren't truly provided with a "fair" and "equal" court.
This letter outlines the injustice served to reporting rape victims, the misconceptions surrounding rape, and the reasons rape culture is still bei...
20% of all incarcerated people are in for drug offenses, most of which are non-violent
As an insignificant but individual Maine student, I recommend that you look before you leap.
yes, ALL LIVES MATTER; but for right now BLACK LIVES MATTER and are the ones at stake.
Dear Mr./Mrs. President....
Censorship is just a word, its consequences are much more than that.
Time to look at both sides. Do you think police brutality is a problem?
This letter is about immigrants moving to the U.S. who doesn't have their citizenship.
Legal immigrants under a visa, should have the opportunity of becoming citizens after a certain amount of time.
Ellaina Andrew
Black Lives Matter is a group that protests the police, but in the process they are breaking laws. Black Lives Matter could be better than they are...
Police brutality has been a huge topic to talk about lately. But why hasn't there been any change? There have been too many deaths caused by unprof...
College campus sexual assault cases are not being handled seriously. What are YOU going to do about it?
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."...
Bring the production back to America and decrease our dependence on China to get rid of the National Debt.
Are you being wrongly misjudged by our country's justice system because of your race?
The punishments for marital rape are not as harsh as the punishments for rape itself. The government has took the time to make it a law that raping...
A CHANGE IS NEEDED
Cigarette companies are harming our community.
The amount of money the average person makes today is far less than the cost of living even with counting pennies, and this needs to change.
Should the average person of color fear for their life, or are they blowing this out of proportion?
This country is filled with hate crimes everyday and if we don't make a change right now it will get even worse.This letter is asking for the next ...
Dear Next President: Is this really justice? Discrimination by race is unjust. How will you work during your presidency to change these injustices?
Domestic violence can be as deadly as a gunshot.
“If the bee disappeared off the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more plants, no more animals, no more man....
It isn't the 1950's anymore. LGBT people need to be treated fairly, and so do people of every background. After all, we are one nation under god, i...
Children in this generation are easily exposed to drugs. With media desensitizing this generation to the gravity of drugs, it is up to our next pre...
We need a change in our education system. It needs to change so we are learning more and can have more time to focus on school.
Is the rapid growth over imprisonment something we should be worried about, and are they preparing those within the system for reinsertion into soc...
An urgent letter examining the many cracks in the once rigid structure of the criminal justice system.
