SOCL 3371 Chapter : Michelle McMahan 6
Document Summary
The documentary fixing the system by vice, focuses on the investigation of. America"s criminal justice system, and whether it is broken or not. In the past, presidents have tried to prosecute their way out of the drug problem. President barack obama is the first sitting president to ever visit a federal prison. It is clear that america"s criminal justice system is broken today. We hold only five percent of the world"s population, yet twenty-five percent of the world"s inmates; that"s 2. 2 million people incarcerated in america. I agree with president obama when he says. Incarceration became an easy, simple recipe in the minds of folks . Nixon declared a war on drugs in the united states. The way they chose to fight this war, was with more prisons, and more police men. Over the last 45 years, we have made the war on drugs worse, and corrupted the criminal.
