The Prison System

My group and I present the week we read about the prison system. We did activities like secret keeping and or our final activity we handed out little pieces of paper that had different crimes with different punishments. There was a set of people that did the same crime but according to the color of the card they got, they had to either sit down or do an exercise. We tried to focus on the fact that minorities races get published differently than the white race. In a situation, a white kid was able to leave juvy and go to school and have a job set up for him after he violated rules at the prison where they were evaluating him while a African American boy had to stay in juvy and work on a field. The white boy was in juvy for attempted murder and the African American boy was in juvy because of property theft. Situation like these make you wonder how many other people that have to stand in front of a judge or a jury get judged on by their color or race.