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"Before Woody could tell Wes tha police was out back, Wes was on the other side of the front door, knife in hand, hurrying to settle the score with the boy ho had busted his lip." (Moore pg.34)"After ignoring the order one more time, and watching Wes ignore him again, one of the officers stepped foward. He lifted all eighty pounds of Wes off the ground, slamming him face first on the trunk of the police cruiser. Wes's chest collpsed against the trunk of the car, sending pain throughout his entire body. His hand loosene. The knife fell to the asphalt. The officer pinned Wes's body to the car with a forearm hard against the back of Wes's neck while he used his other hand to pull the handcuffs from the right side of his holster."(Moore pg.34). The police used extreme force on Wes who was still an eight year old kid.

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The U.S. has 5% of the worlds population and locks up about a quarter of those people. These prisons make more profit for every person they lock up. This affects minorities like African Americans and Hispanics, due to the harsher punishments they receive.

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The Huge Problem With For-Profit Prisons

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Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world and overcrowding has become a serious issue. Why is America imprisoning so many people? Learn More: Correctional Populations in the United States, 2013 http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpus13.pdf "This report summarizes data from several Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) correctional data collections to provide statistics on the total population supervised by adult correctional systems in the United States."

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Wes moore only occompanied his brother Tony and still received a life sentence in

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"The other will spend every day until his death behind bars for an armed robbery that left a police officer and father of five dead."(Moore p.xii)
"The articles indicated that the shooter, Richard Antonio Moore, would likely recieve the death penalty. The sentence would be similarly severe for his younger brother, who was also arrested and charged."(Moore p.xii)

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Many people that have not commited a major crime are locked-up in prison and punished with the same severity as people that have commited many severe crimes. Wes Moore is in prison for life for helping his older brother Tony in robbing a jewlery store. Tony got a death penalty for killing a retired police officer. Even though Wes didn´t commit such a crime his penalty is as similiar as Tony's.

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Problems with Americas Criminal justice system is not only affcting the prisoners.

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Problems with the Criminal Justice System - FWU

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Should we focus on deterrence or restitution for the victim? What rights do prisoner have? Do we have a dysfunctional system that fails to distinguish between violent and non-violent crime? FreedomWorks University's "Problems with the Criminal Justice System" addresses the need for meaningful reform to America's current criminal justice system.