There are various assumption of the American Criminal Justice system which considers the system as a failure to its people. We must ask ourselves, what are the problems with the criminal justice system? How can we resolve those issues? In this article some of the issues of the criminal justice system are being addressed and some solutions to those issues are given as well.
Many problems foreseen in the criminal justice system are, laws that criminalize behaviors that should not be criminal, client populations at every stage who are disproportionately mentally ill, drug-dependent, or both and are often dealt within appropriately or inhumanely, pretrial detention systems that are over used and undermine the already disadvantaged lives of the mostly poor and minority people they hold, …show more content…
These are a few among more issues not mentioned. The main concepts of the criminal justice system is to bring justice to the unjust, to be fairly toward their people, and humanely. Because there is lack of fairness, humane, and justice in the U.S criminal justice system, some alternatives are to formulate some of the other western ideas of their policies and procedures. From the point of view of the author Tonry, in comparison to the other western countries, the U.S criminal justice system does not express and embody fundamental enlighten values of justice, fairness, equality and humane dignity. It was describe by The commissions that brutality, the “third degree,” racial bias, and political influence as major police problems in their times. The commissions also described the overworked and underfunded prosecutors, judges, and parole board members who had little