Critical Analysis Of Trever Noah's Video 'The Daily Show'
Ethan Peacock
SOCI 4330
Second Semester
April 5, 2016
Critical Analysis #2 In the fall of 2015, Trever Noah (host of The Daily Show) talks about criminal justice inequality mostly towards what Congress has changed they call it criminal justice reform it’s about a four minute video on Hulu. The starts out by talking about the population of America which is about “5% of the world but the prison system in the U.S. has about over a .25% of them in jail” (Noah) which is ridiculous. Congress calls it the Corrections Act of 2015 where they have reduce the 3 strike policy towards nonviolent offenders to 25 years, so like the drug users or the people who sell it and also limit making a mandatory 10 year sentences along with other problems they wish to change. The funniest item he brings …show more content…
The video keeps going along as that since more people are going to prison than more jobs are opening up inside those prisons due to the fact we love arresting people for the smallest petty crimes. With making all these new prisons the money is coming from tax payers in which is us that would cost they said in the video “200 billion a year!” (Noah). The tax payer’s money for that could go a long way in helping other needs that we need badly like education. Lastly in the video, he talks about when people come out of prison they don’t have anything, but they can’t get anything to start their life over again because like what Noah says “ You did the crime, you did the time, and you want to start your life now but as long it doesn’t involve food, shelter or work” (Noah). When I looked on to see if there were any comments about people being upset with Trevor or liking
SOCI 4330
Second Semester
April 5, 2016
Critical Analysis #2 In the fall of 2015, Trever Noah (host of The Daily Show) talks about criminal justice inequality mostly towards what Congress has changed they call it criminal justice reform it’s about a four minute video on Hulu. The starts out by talking about the population of America which is about “5% of the world but the prison system in the U.S. has about over a .25% of them in jail” (Noah) which is ridiculous. Congress calls it the Corrections Act of 2015 where they have reduce the 3 strike policy towards nonviolent offenders to 25 years, so like the drug users or the people who sell it and also limit making a mandatory 10 year sentences along with other problems they wish to change. The funniest item he brings …show more content…
The video keeps going along as that since more people are going to prison than more jobs are opening up inside those prisons due to the fact we love arresting people for the smallest petty crimes. With making all these new prisons the money is coming from tax payers in which is us that would cost they said in the video “200 billion a year!” (Noah). The tax payer’s money for that could go a long way in helping other needs that we need badly like education. Lastly in the video, he talks about when people come out of prison they don’t have anything, but they can’t get anything to start their life over again because like what Noah says “ You did the crime, you did the time, and you want to start your life now but as long it doesn’t involve food, shelter or work” (Noah). When I looked on to see if there were any comments about people being upset with Trevor or liking