The Cold Injustice of the Judicial System
The judicial system is supposed to represent justice. Instead, it represents control. Cold, biased, and dehumanizing, it strips away the humanity of the accused and replaces it with a sterile, systematic process where facts aren’t facts, voices go unheard, and decisions are made without compassion or understanding. When you step into the judicial system—whether in criminal court or mental health court—you lose your agency. Your life, your circumstances, your truth are all reduced to a fact sheet, a document that defines your entire existence for the court. But these “facts” are often incomplete or outright wrong. And yet, because they’re written down, judges treat them as absolute truth. There’s no room for your input, no space for context. The person at the center of it all—the accused—is silenced. Judges, the supposed arbiters of fairness, are anything but impartial. They bring their own biases, their own cold and clinical approach to decisions that could alter someone’s life forever...