On Thursday November 10 at 2:15pm in the Criminal Court located at 100 Centre Street Room 129 Part E in downtown Manhattan Arlinda, Cynthia, and I observed hearings. The hearings were about misdemeanor cases. There were only 22 docket numbers called in criminal court this afternoon. The duration of the hearings took 1-10 minutes, for the judge to decide a verdict. Once all the cases were called we left the criminal court building at 4:30pm.

In addition, I did not like my experience to the court house. Once you enter the courthouse you must remove all of the items in your pockets to clear the metal detector. It feels dehumanizing to have a court officer run a metal detector stick over your breasts and backside because your underwire bra made the metal detector ring. I man in front of me had a sharp object he removed from his pocket and threw it in the garbage before the court officers could see it. The court seemed dark and gloomy. Officers walked with detainees in handcuffs in the hallway right next to us. It was uncomfortable for me to see people in handcuffs with no shoelaces, however it seemed normal to everyone …show more content…
Kalief Browder received the same treatment as a black male in court this day. The case was docket number 722 black male,17 charge robbery violation of conditional discharge, found guilty, not released, 5 prior arrests, and bail set at $2,000. This black male was remanded because of his prior arrest and violation of his conditional discharge. Kalief Browder experience a similar situation like this black male. According to Gonnerman (2014), “The Department of probation had filed a “violation of probation” against him-standard procedure when someone on probation is indicted on a new felon-and the judge had remanded him without bail.” The only difference between the two cases is the young black male received a bail but both were remanded because of previous