Law

In jail, corruption is exemplified in several instances. The woman in charge of the women prison is corrupt and takes bribes from the prisoners and supplies them with stuff like cigarettes and other things. While in jail, Roxie learns about Velmas lawyer Billy, and she decides to use him to get her off the accusations and thus get out of jail. Billy was said to be the bets criminal lawyer in Chicago at that time, and he had never lost a court case for her women clients. This implies that the lawyer Billy must have been corrupting in the court so as to win cases.  Another instance of corruption is seen when Roxie and her lawyer Billy, manage to manipulate the press through bribe and makes the press to change Roxies identity portraying her as a wonderful and talented person. Convincing the press to portray Roxie as a celebrity shows irregularities in the criminal justice system as well as the media industry at that time. The popularity given to her by the press made her a celebrity in the jail of Cook County, a phenomena that Velma did not like.

Corruption is again indicated when Roxie seduces a doctor to lie to the public and to the criminal justice system that the woman was pregnant. Roxie was thus able to get out of rivalry and therefore meet with lawyer Billy and began to strategize on how to win the murder case in court. Roxie and her lawyer Billy used her star power that she had convinced the public to have through the support of the media, which they seem to have corrupted. On the other hand, she had convinced the court and the CRJ that she was pregnant and therefore she won a vote of sympathy because of the unborn child through her.

Her court trial was a media spectacle due to the sensational reports that had been circulated by the media concerning her conditions. This was a trick used by her lawyer Billy. The case went the Roxies way with the help of her lawyer Billy and therefore she was proclaimed innocent. Corruption in the criminal justice system portrays itself in many instances from the police to the court and other systems. The prison wardens are corrupt and they help inmates to get illegal things in the jails. These instances of corruption happen even in todays systems due to poor payment to the police force and bad cultures of impunity practiced in those systems. The doctor is seduced by Roxie and due to his love for money he agrees and testifies false information to the court thus jeopardizing the administration of justice in court. In this case we see the existence of corruption in the correction system. This type of corruption is still present in todays criminal justice systems due to peoples love for money and bad culture of injustice practised in the modern society.

Billy was said to be the best criminal lawyer at that time. He is said to have never lost a case especially for his female clients. For Billy to have lost no case means that he had a good relationship with the judges besides his other tricks. He most probably created the relationship by corrupting the judges or the other stakeholders involved in court cases. This is exemplified when Roxie wins the case in spite have killed her secret lover.  In todays administration of criminal justice also there are renowned lawyers who hardly loose cases even when their clients are vividly on the wrong. These lawyers are known to the judges through their corrupt systems. When they win cases through corruption, they became famous and win a lot of clients thus making a lot of money. This shows corruption in the court part of criminal justice system.

The evils of money are taking root in the modern society and this pose as the main source of corruption. In the video, the police who in most cases serve as jail wardens in the modern society portray corruption by allowing inmates to acquire illicit drugs and to be released from their cells without proper prior scrutiny of the matter. The case of pregnancy is just but a sample of other excuses that inmates use to get their freedom such as mental disorders and other faked illnesses. The courts have portrayed corruption by being swayed into the favor of the rich and the affluent in the society. Money buys justice in the modern society Just like the protagonist in the film who got scot-free with the murder in the film, there are many people today who should be behind the bars, but they walk with us in the streets of freedom. In terms of corruption, the media has played a major role in broadcasting lies to the public. This is common where the government has control of the media and there is no media freedom. The affluent influences the media to quench their greedy desires they make the media paint them in good pictures while in the real sense they are wolves in sheep skins.

These incidences of corruption has developed and worse in the 21st century as the criminal justice has fallen short of achieving justice in running their errands. The CRJ is all collaborating in making justice unachievable. What would one do if the most top in CRJ approves one innocent Even when one knows where the truth about the case is, money talks louder. Its no longer about who is right and wrong rather who is richer, who has power and who controls the CRJ. This situation is not to change any soon unless the CRJ resolves to stand by ethics and truth. To serve a jail term in the modern society does not necessarily mean you are guilty its because you could not get a good and an influential lawyer to pilot your case.

The video under study was not just for fun in watching but as a reflection of what the modern society has become. It portrays the evils of the criminal justice system in many parts of the world today. It triggers anger in the hearts of the justice lovers and it is a challenge to provoke the CRJ to incorporate ethics and act with respect to the truth and in line with the justice the CRJ was formed for and to serve in the interest of the majority and not for the few rich personas in the society.