Time for Judicial Justice
It’s a Three Legged Stool
1) Social Justice (26,400,000 Google search results 5-26-2015)
2) Economic Justice (2,140,000 Google search results 5-26-2015)
3) Judicial Justice (56,700 Google search results 5-26-2015)
First America embraced the concept (if not always the reality) of Social Justice. Colleges even have Departments and Professors of Social Justice.
While Americans have always considered themselves educated about Economic Justice, they rarely have been. Optimistically the Last 10 years of intense focus on America’s broken Economic Justice system show some early signs of a broad awakening of educated American’s for Economic Justice. Yet no College in America has a Professor or Department of Economic Justice.
Finally, in the last year, American have developed an outrage for our current “Third Leg of the Stool“ Judicial Justice.
Judicial Justice covers:
1) An Un-equal, rigid, and Unfair Judicial Sentencing.
2) A broken, racially biased, economically biased, Police (and other people with Badges) detainment and arrest operating practices.
3) A wasteful system that spends our national treasure on incarceration and next to nothing on every other option - all of which are cheaper, such as: Education, Jobs, Counseling, Food & Shelter.
4) A horrible, tragic, failed “War on Drugs”. Drug usage should be legal (with common sense restrictions such as Driving while intoxicated). Drug sales should be regulated and heavily taxed.
5) A broken Juvenile Justice system that no longer treats Juveniles as Children, creating more Criminals than productive members of society.
6) A broken Mental Health system that no longer has long term Hospitals for the Mentally Ill and treats the mentally ill as criminals or disposable.
7) A punitive set of Government rules and laws that permanently take away food, housing, education, job and voting opportunities from those who need them the most.
8) Private – For Profit – Prisons. Prisons that should never be allowed in a moral society.
9) Slave labor. No one – not even Prisoners – should be forced to work for 5 cents an hour in a moral society.
Judicial Justice Problems are large, the issues complex. A completely broken system that cries out for a complete overhaul. Undoubtedly one the 3 defining issues of our time. Sadly not one College in America has a Professor or Department of Judicial Justice.
Can we start there? Is there a way that Professors and Departments of Economic Justice and Judicial Justice can be created? Funded? Can more Social Justice Professors and Departments be created? Funded?