A few important facts from Just Mercy and Bryan Stevenson’s TED talk, in 1972 Bryan Stevenson’s states “ that there are were 300,000 people in prison and in the jail system, but today and in our present era there are 2.3 million locked up in jails and prisons”. Following this statement Bryan Stevenson’s also informs on how the United States is the highest country with incarceration population in the world. Bryan Stevenson also informs how the mass incarceration leads to fundamental changes within the US. Many of the funding’s that typically goes toward construction, youth, and poverty assistance and many more helpful things. The money that usually goes to support all of those helpful facilities for American are now going toward either expanding …show more content…
He feels society needs to be more courageous and embrace the many challenges, problems and suffering of out wrongfully accused and African American population. This book connected to this class on so many different levels. One element it connected to was the mass incarceration that are going on in the United States because we “our class” did touch base on that topic. Another element from the reading that can connect to class discussion is the many wrongful convictions of many Americans that the system has to exonerate after being identified as innocent individuals who were put on death row. I have learn many things from these readings. One factor that I found interesting was learning that there are programs put out in the world, that does help out the individuals who are wrongfuly convicted. Even if its just that they did not have a equal or fair trial, or being cause or being to poor to offord a denfense attorney. Programs like The Equal Justice Initiative.(2017) even though that insituion is mainly based in Alabama, it provides legal representation to individuals who are locked up and “may” have been wrongly convicted. They also provid assistance for poor prisoners, who need proper presentation, or individuals who are denial a