This article asks a very serious question and presents three sobering examples of what can happen when the legal system is mislead, misused, and otherwise used as a tool of revenge and not as a blind guarantor of justice.  Are we foolish enough to believe that situations like the ones talked about in this article are too rare to worry about?  Are we foolish enough to believe that DA’s and other prosecutors are always the objective and level headed guardians of the law they are meant to be?

The legal system in America, while it may be miles above the legal system of other, less developed, nations, is still far from perfect.  We still condemn innocent people because of poor detective work, because of fear and prejudice, and most sadly of all, because of ignorance.

It is a sad enough reality that adults in this world are forced to contend with legal systems which, more often than not, are not concerned about justice as much as revenge; the fact that children have to deal with such  systems is unconscionable.  When a child is lost to the faceless, heartless, soulless, Gomorrah of our prison system we as a society have failed that child.  Many children grow up in fear, abuse, poverty, and ignorance.  If their situations drive them to break a law of society should society respond by locking them away, throwing away the key, and simply writing them off as a life wasted before it even began?  Or should society try and solve the real, tough, issues that led to that child’s behavior?