Episode 86: Discretion in the Criminal Justice System

Episode 86: Discretion in the Criminal Justice System
Guest: Autumn Morgan & Keaton Wille

This is the second week of the 2024 spring semester at Heartland Community College and Bingham has a new cohort of students. As students embark on learning about the criminal justice system, they too will learn that social justice and criminal justice go hand in hand, in particular anti-racism. Starting things off will be Autumn Morgan and Keaton Wille. As he instructs this set of students, Bingham will focus on discretion in the criminal justice system which can be a driving force for good and a driving force for prejudice, bias, and injustice. During this episode, Bingham and his students discuss the following: 

• Autumn and Keaton’s career path
• Why they enrolled in the course
• What high school they attended
• Their favorite constitutional right
• Their career goals
• What is discretion
• Discretion as it relates to the criminal justice system
• The 3 major components of the criminal justice system
• The 4 things that brought concern to the criminal justice system
• The first president to declare war on crime
• Constitutional rights
• Should a felon be allowed to vote
• Should a felon be allowed to be president
• Should presidents be given complete immunity
• Black Lives Matter
• White Supremacy
• Should marijuana be legalized at the federal level
• What they’d like to see the Biden administration accomplish

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