Justice And Equal Treatment In American Criminal Justice System

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As I am a deaf person myself. I was born as profoundly deaf and the reason was unknown. It was probably my ear didn’t develop yet when my mom gave a birth to my sister twin and me earlier. Deafness means people can’t hear or speak. The word of deafness itself is automatically the part for the disabilities in hearing peoples’ view. I think it doesn’t because we have American Sign Language. Anyway, I often get discriminations from hearing people. I went to the deaf school when I was in the kindergarten grade and there were no problems. Until I was transferring to the mainstream classes with a small deaf program when I was in primary grades. Everyone views deaf people dumb. I meet many smart deaf people. They are misunderstanding about deaf people all times. Some would mock my American Sign Language. In my life, I have been faced no accessible every day …show more content…
when it comes people with disabilities. Since the paper addresses that people with disabilities should have the justice and equal treatment in American criminal justice system with some reasons. Being said with the three reasons how does the criminal justice system failed bringing the justice to disabled people are due to no accessibility, no support in the criminal justice process, and polices misunderstood toward people with disabilities. In the overall, the criminal justice system needs to change or improve in the situation where or when they interact people with disabilities. I think that it would help the criminal justice system if they create more of the strict education or train programs. I know the system is not perfect and everyone is making mistakes. But when it comes to the justice and the system should be ethical for Americans with disabilities, not making repeated

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