Speaker From Today...Thoughts....

After listening to the speaker today I felt conflicted. I thought that the police were helpful and not here to just convict people. If the police were here to help us than there wouldn't be so many wrongful convictions. I think that it's just horrible for people to be wrongfully convicted. I wanted to cry when our speaker was telling his story. Being convicted of a crime at age 17 that you didn't commit was so sad. I felt for him and I felt bad when he talked about adjusting to the outside world. It made me think of the Shawshank Redemption. It was so hard for the men to adjust to life outside the prison after they were set free. It would be so hard to be away for song long and then have everything change. We were talking about things changing in Theatre this week. When you move away from a house and you go back to visit it you start to think: "That didn't used to be the wall color." "That shouldn't go there." "These people set the room up all wrong." You want things to be the same as when you left, but that doesn't happen often. Things change as people grow older and grow apart from things. Things change to adjust with growing times too, that's why the world changes when people are in jail or prison. The outside world doesn't just stop because they are away. It would be nice if it did so the people who were away could feel like they didn't miss anything. I can't even imagine having to adjust to a world that I didn't know. I would feel scared and lost and afraid to walk out of my house. I am a person who doesn't like change and I would feel super overwhelmed by the world changing around me. I felt so bad for all the people who were named on the cards. All of these people were convicted of a crime they didn't commit and that breaks my heart. I don't want people to lose faith in our justice system and that makes my want to cry. We are supposed to have a great justice system and that makes me just feel like Americans are failing at justice. We should fix whats wrong so we can not have as many flaws.