20% of all incarcerated people are in for drug offenses, most of which are non-violent
The American justice system should be restructured to prioritize crimes in order of seriousness, and have pre-determined jail times for each crime.
Many judges these days are giving harsher or more lenient sentences based on the race, gender, sexuality, religion, or social class of the offender.
Inequality in the criminal court system
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 ...
Letter on institutional racism to our next president.
Are you being wrongly misjudged by our country's justice system because of your race?
3 points addressing this huge issue
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...
This is about how people no matter money or race or color everyone should be treated equally. None of those should matter and you need to work for ...
America needs to step in to help Dalits over in India who are suffering from discrimination due to India's caste system.
I believe Mr Trump in order for this place or world or whatever to be great again if stop you racial profiling and discrimination, Also Make it a l...
Mr.Trump is the next president-elect
Racial Discrimination Against Hispanics Plagues Our Nation.
Racism has become a bad problem in America, it needs to be fixed and this must be the president's number one concern.
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...
A letter by Michael Calderon
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...
Times have changed, and we can't ignores the facts any longer.
Riots, protests, and more killings. Police brutality is alive and well. As communities and their officers are driven farther apart, our hopes turn ...
My letter is addressing the issues in racism.
The criminal justice system is becoming more unfair for this country more and more every day.
Racism is still alive to this day.
In this letter you will read about immigrants like me who should receive citizenship and why we deserve it.
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 Discrimination affecting our country needs to be discussed so that an action plan to combat discrimination can be establisheed.
This letter is about immigrants moving to the U.S. who doesn't have their citizenship.
Almost 200 Black people were killed by the police only in the year 2016. This needs to stop.
The death penalty is unfair, unconstitutional, and ineffective. This needs to change.
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...
Capital punishment is just an excuse we make so that we can take revenge. Killing is a huge step backwards for mankind. Therefore, the death penalt...
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...
A life changing crime with a punishment way too small
I hope that these thing racial discrimination, gun control, abortion can all be fixed in the next fue years
Dear Next President: Is this really justice? Discrimination by race is unjust. How will you work during your presidency to change these injustices?
Education has been segregated from the start of mankind. Donald Trump is believed to support this statement.
Compared to White people, Black people are getting the bad end of the stick when it comes to law enforcement.
Police Brutality is a growing issue in our nation that needs a valid, long-term solution.
Discrimination still exists today, and that needs to change now.
The mandatory minimum prison sentencing is unfair for people who have done minor crimes and it needs to be changed.
The burden of being raped, sexually harassed, or sexual abused is not understood in America, leading to problems with our justice system and rapist...
Black men must be treated fairly.
Just because segregation is no more, does not mean that some people are on board with equality. Major issues about discrimination still exist in to...
Domestic violence can be as deadly as a gunshot.
If we don't improve the North Carolina Judicial System, how many lives will be affected in a negative way?
Should the average person of color fear for their life, or are they blowing this out of proportion?
Ellaina Andrew
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.
Racial Inequality is a major problem that is still happening in the United States.
An urgent letter examining the many cracks in the once rigid structure of the criminal justice system.
This letter outlines the injustice served to reporting rape victims, the misconceptions surrounding rape, and the reasons rape culture is still bei...
The Juvenile Justice System is flawed and we need a better way to truly discipline children, not endanger them.
The riots against President elect Donald J. Trump are completely unnecessary. But, if they are so unnecessary, then why are they so big right now?
I believe the future president should make racial disparities between criminal sentences a top priority.
Minimum sentence requirements and the masses
Native American problems have long been overlooked by society, something that is extremely prevalent today due to the problems with the Dakota Acce...
I am against racial profiling
yes, ALL LIVES MATTER; but for right now BLACK LIVES MATTER and are the ones at stake.
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...
What a president should be and how they should act as they look at education, gun control, and minor group decisions.
Black men make about 6% of the US population but make up over 40% of our prison population. Think about that. Think about how black families are of...
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...
In this letter I have composed several issues that America faces today. This includes the lack of respect towards rape survivors and the debate ove...
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...
The next president has a crucial influence on the future of the Supreme Court, which significantly affects the functioning of our entire country. T...
I think the problem is that only few states have it.
Prisoners being released early from prison for violent or harmful offenses is a serious problem in our justice system, especially when many people ...
