Sunday, February 24, 2019

39 years for nothing Tiarah Davis

Craig Coley spent 39 years in jail for a double homicide he did not commit. So as a result, the 71-year-old was given $21million. The court feels this would settle a lawsuit for almost 40 years of unfair justice.
source https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/24/us/craig-coley-simi-valley-21-million-wrongful-conviction/index.html

America's detention system has not truly been the best it can be. Yes, one of the main goals to prison is to refine and make you a citizen, HOWEVER, it also makes life harder to where going back is not so hard.

In 2012, about 10,000 people served the life sentence in the U.S. were convicted of non-violent crimes
Most crimes stay on a record and basically makes it so much harder for you to get your life together.

"The bureau looked at 2017 crime and arrest data from 16,000 law enforcement agencies across the country and found that only 61.6 percent of reported murders were “cleared.” " -Max Jaeger from the New York Post 
https://nypost.com/2018/09/25/a-shocking-number-of-us-murders-went-unsolved-last-year/

Also, the bailing system was made to aid the wealthy,

" As evidence, Jenna Bushnell, Lieu’s communication director, cited a 
Marshall Project article and Bureau of Justice Statistics report, the latter of which discloses that there were 458,600 unconvicted inmates in local jails at the end of 2016."
-Lucia Geng 
https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2018/jun/29/ted-lieu/do-more-450000-americans-sit-jail-because-they-are/




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