Alonza's Hierarchy Case

Issue / conflict

Living from cell to cell Alonza expressed that he didn't know if he could do this. He shared a moment where he was having a conversation with his doctor and he was sitting in a small cage. The doctor asked him why aren’t you happy that you're leaving he responded and said this cage right here makes me feel safe this cage makes me feels normal. In the summer of 2003, anther teenager on Alonza's cell block committed suicide Alonza's also shared his experience of how he also felt like he couldn't do this anymore because it was too stressful and overwhelming. Most of his time in prison he had bad medical health treatment or solitary confinement due to the results of that he did attempt suicide multiple times. He shared a

The Hierarchy from this video is the social system of the law. They hold the most power in terms of controlling what is right for the communities by putting young people in jail because it would be safer for them as a community. It was very obvious that Alonza Had a good attorney there for the challenge the count hierarchy for a healing of appeals however it was not too much in their favor they were able to at least bring down the chargers. What made the case special is that he was the first minor to be contacted as an adult. I believe a lot of people see our justice system broken in terms of racism and discrimination and now even age young teenagers should not be put into adult prison and this is why we have a problem because they turn to self harm and potential suicide. They ate not given the opportunity to fix the problem the system is not believing in a second chance There simply giving up on our youth and throwing them off to prison. The system is broken because they are not getting giving people a fair chance to at trial the system is turning their backs on

The reason why the system is like this is because they want to prevent who commit crimes whether the age difference from youth to an adult matter. Just like they stated on the video a crime is a crime no matter what way you put once a crime is committed it’s done. I believe that this situation exist because there’s so many young people who commit crimes. This is also an issue today because like they say in the video age is just a number and a crime should just be charged as a crime and like Ed Jagels Points out there putting these kid away because they will just prevent them from committing another crime and or simply just protecting the community by putting them away. I work with people with disability and I feel like this gives me a good example to share one of my clients that I work with he grew up and was manipulated by mid mother because his mother told him that it was okay to steal just likes Alonza got manipulated by someone. my client grow up and constantly Speaking to steal and this is why there should be some type of a valuation to see if the youth should even be put into prison or being charged as an adult. I think that other people that suffer from trop 21 should have the family’s match and petition the court system. I think what we need to do is have a better law system that Separates adults from teens because clearly it’s not safe and I