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But What Is Justice? (4:24) Dontie Mitchell
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:04:24
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Synopsis
I just got finished watching the TV show We The People. This particular episode moved me deeply because it dealt with the question of bail and redemption. Rodney was being held on a 100,000 dollar bond for selling cigarettes illegally. All he needed was someone to sign the bond for him and he'd be released, but nobody would risk it. When his aunt reconsider her decision not to sign, and she did, Rodney had taken his own life while locked up, having never known he was about to be released. On April 22nd, 2019, United States Supreme Court denied my petition for a writ of certiorari, thus declining to extend a constitutional right to rehabilitation for juvenile and youthful offenders who end up in prison, or in prison-like facilities, that make them worse. So, although the Supreme Court has ruled a state must afford juvenile offenders a meaningful opportunity to obtain relief, based on demonstrated maturity and rehabilitation, the state is not required to help those offenders to mature and to rehabilitate themse