At first you can’t believe it, then you hate it, then you get used to it, then you can’t live without it. True, these are just the characters of the walls of the cell of a prisoner.
For committing a crime or trying and succeeding in taking revenge by murdering in a quite amateurish way, they serve a life sentence. Some get a death penalty and escape from living the life of a prisoner.
‘When they give you a life sentence, they simply take life from you’. You are all alone with a few others whom too the law has proved beyond doubt to be criminals. But according to them, they all are innocent. Maybe it’s true for some and ‘the lawyer fucked them’, as they claim. Being forced to follow strict rules and living with all guilty people, they develop a wish and try to break free and so becomes another jail-made criminal.
The innocent ones believing in God, ask him of their crime or why was the judgement of the judge so wrong. Some after being rehabilitated come out of prison. But they are too old to get a job or get used to the normal city life. After the stiff rehabilitation, they don’t have life in them to start life afresh. They come out to find a whole new world moving much faster than they could ever imagine. Their families have mostly disappeared in the air due to lack of income and their relatives aren’t ready to accept them and most even fail to recognize them. They can’t live without the walls of the prison then, they don’t have enough life in them to live life like a freeman and thus their better judgement suggests them to go near GOD.
Some come to prison by falling prey to the loop holes in law which only the lawyers use to get out the rich and lock up the poor. After being released they have nothing left in them to take revenge against the rich or even the lawyer.
Lawyers are the persons who play with law which was once made to protect everyone. As it turns out, the law is only successful in protecting the rich but is having a tough time protecting the poor.
Somewhere I have heard or read that every person is allowed to commit only 1 mistake, and then they are forgiven for it. Well 1 mistake leads to another, and to stop that we have these jails. Considering this some people commit there first crime in prison (by trying to break the prison) while others don’t try their hand in the second crime as they know they have already committed their first crime and forgiven and thus living in jail. Now there are some who are awarded for their mistakes and blessed to commit more mistakes. These are the lawyers. They are never punished. If a lawyer is to be judged after his retirement by all those he has sent to prison, he would surely spend his retired life with a number on him with those he has earlier chosen to.
Well written.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the old B&W Gregory peck movie - To kill a mockingbird.
Thanks... I have taken some quotations and thoughts from the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994)
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