Mumia Abu-Jamal stresses time and time again the imbalances in the criminal system. He explains that punishment is not about law it is about politics by other means. Abu-Jamal describes American courts as reservoirs of racist sentiment historically hostile to black defendants. An alarming statistic states that an amazing 40 percent of America’s death row population is black. This, out of a population that is a mere 11 percent of the nation’s populous. The five states with the largest death rows have larger percentages on death row than in their statewide black population. I think the statistics suggest that African-American defendants are not treated equally in the criminal justice system. How can such a small portion of the population represent such a large portion of the prison system? As Abu-Jamal states, “words like justice, law, civil rights, and yes, crime, have different and elastic meanings depending on whose rights were violated, who committed what crime against whom, and whether one works for the system or against it.” Because of this book, I have gained the opinion that we cannot support a system that is so unfair and biased toward a whole race of people.

strongly on the injustices of the criminal justice system.

Abu-Jamal also discusses the word correction from “correctional system”. He clearly expresses his disgust with the whole idea of prisons in America being a form of corrections for crimes committed. He describes that prison life does nothing for the individual when they prepare to reenter society. Abu-Jamal argues that life long incarceration or the pressure of the death penalty has no effect as a deterrent to crime. In one essay, he states, “A dark, repressive trend in the business field known as corrections is sweeping the United States, and it bodes ill both for the captives and for the communities from which they were captured.” It is a reality that the system does little to promote corrections. The face of corrections outlaws education to those who are incarcerated. How can people be corrected in the prison while education is outlaw? Accord

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