Swift Justice: Leveling the Playing Field for America's Re-Entry Citizens

Swift Justice: Leveling the Playing Field for America's Re-Entry Citizens
ISBN-10
1432787101
ISBN-13
9781432787103
Series
Swift Justice
Category
Education
Pages
166
Language
English
Published
2012-03
Author
Kim Patterson

Description

Swift Justice: Leveling the Playing Field for America's Re-entry Citizens is written for four distinct audiences. The first includes legally vulnerable individuals unfortunate enough to have experienced incarceration and that are now seeking to successfully re-enter the communities from which they originated. The second category includes other vulnerable populations, such as ethnic minorities, the poor, and the less-informed concerning the American Justice System and its culture. The third category includes persons of faith and/or those of good conscience, within positions of judicial or government influence, that can make a difference by using their voice to speak out against injustice. Finally, the fourth category is for law breaking public servants and officials within the Justice System, that engage in covert acts of corruption at the expense of re-entry, poor, and vulnerable people groups. Through this book, the author desires the reader to "think" the concept of Justice and, in so doing, move the societal thought-needle on the subject back to the middle: where Justice is, again, a two-edged sword that indiscriminately cuts both civilians and civil servants that break the law. Swift Justice: Leveling the Playing Field for America's Re-entry Citizens is the culmination of years of counseling with the incarcerated, work with re-entry citizens, hearing personal testimonies of injustice from vulnerable and poor people groups, and observing the emerging pattern of corruption, within the United States Justice System that, left unchecked, will become normative and pandemic. The book is not intended to be an exhaustive discourse on the issue of Injustice; rather, a primer for discussion, research, reflection, and action on behalf of re-entry citizens and other vulnerable people groups. The book is also not intended to be a lengthy dissertation on the issue of Injustice; neither is it a sugar-coated discourse on the philosophical complexities of the Amer

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