The Farm: Life Inside Angola, directed by Liz Garbus and Jonathan Stack is a documentary based on felons and inmates who are serving life sentences. Moreover, some were convicted for death row. The film takes place in Angola, Louisiana. The documentary was published in 1998 and it represents justice/hope to many of the convicted felons. The reason why I say justice is because one of the inmates that was convicted of rape, came forward telling us his side of the story. In his argument, the inmate was involved in a rape case that he was never a part of, to begin with. However, the victim told the authorities that a black male had raped her. Therefore, the officials immediately prosecuted the subject, who didn’t commit the crime. However, since he fit the description, he had no choice. Furthermore, his sentencing was ridiculous. It was well unjust. The Judge gave him a life sentence without the possibility of parole. In other words, like many inmates said, “once you are here, you’re going to die in here.” Another scene that stood out to me was the unjust of punishment. This ties up to the earlier example. The punishments that the inmates were receiving were way too harsh. I totally understand that a robbery does indeed carry a heavy consequence. But, it shouldn’t be …show more content…
The following solution states, “Let the crime fit the harm and the punishment fit the crime” (Reiman, 211). This reminds us that every crime has a punishment, however, it must be a realistic punishment. For instance, in the film, there was a felon who had robbed a bank and was in prison and prosecuted to a lifetime sentence. In another case, an inmate was in for life sentence for rape, however, in his case. There was no significant evidence. According to himself, he was innocent and the reason why he’s in jail is because of his skin color. It’s terrible that our society has labeled people of color as a