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Perversion of Justice is the poignant story of Hamedah Hasan and her three daughters, a family caught in the web of our nation's draconian drug laws. Hamedah's outlandish sentence for her first drug offense shocked her family, bewildered her attorneys and outraged even the Bush-appointed federal judge who sentenced her, calling this "the most grotesque perversion of justice I can think of."
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22 responses // Perversion of Justice

  • Was really good.
    Kidryu16
  • Wow, this is such an important issue. Here in California it's become a huge problem -- the jails are so crowded the state may be releasing inmates that are there for minor drug offenses like hers. What great characters, amazing access, good experts that provided information. Great pod all around.
    AmandaBecker
  • Very compelling and well-produced. Hope to see more from you.
    eledgin
  • omg this is heart-breaking... I listened to Arnold's state of the state address and I hope he acts on it. overcrowding aside, it costs so much to keep these people imprisoned. if you gave these people the money it takes to keep them locked up you'd probably not see them stooping to the levels they're forced to, just to survive in this corporate-induced phuktop society of people in power that don't give a shite.

    why do judges not *scream* for justice? only to sit idly by like there's nothing they can possibly do but sit there like George Bush on 9/11??? why don't we get faces to those people who overturn the appeals when "sufficient" time and good conduct would deserve better? these are the worthless mferz we should be locking up!!! these are the bass-turdz your cameras should be embarrassing without ceasing. they care more about their political lives than people...sob's.

    put a face to 'em please... dare them to come to the light of public scrutiny. don't let them remain faceless and untouchable. call them OUT!!!

    echoz
  • This is really a sad situation. I hear a lot of stories like this. This is a great pod. This pod contains great movement, pictures of Hamedah Hasan, and interviewers. I do think going to the home where she left and the home where she ended up at would help this pod. Where did the children end up? I think these questions need to be answered. The interview with the children is great. Great pod and subject matter.
    deg334
  • Really good pod, great subject of choice.

    it's good to see such a pod come from someone that lives in the same city as I =DDD
    Alanisnotcool
  • wtf...you guys aren't sick enough?? if all you can comment on is the "great" production value of this piece, give her a freakn award and have it over with eh? gdam...no wonder she's still in jail...
    echoz
  • Wow, what a great start. The opening sound bite is really powerful and I was instantly drawn into the story. (The eerie music helped drive the point home!) Your great main character got right to the point, and made me want to keep watching. The angle you found for this pod helped me learn more about the war on drugs, and who ends up paying the price under the existing laws. You did a great job humanizing what can sometimes seems to be a nameless, faceless prison population – and the judge as well. This pod raises some really interesting questions. I can’t believe you had such great access, both with the prison and the family, and the experts helped fill in the pertinent info. Well done!
    lrudser
  • I've been stewing on that line where Hamedah asks if the judge is anything more than a formality because of federal sentencing guidelines.

    We hear over and over politicians railing against judges "legislating from the bench" when the average American is far more likely to be hurt by politicians sentencing people from the Congress and the campaign trail.

    We allow politicians to make unnecessarily harsh legal codes and sentencing guidelines by voting them out for being "soft on crime" when they don't. We need to demand more of our representatives by asking what their thoughts are on tough issues(like crime and drugs) and how we can address these issues as a nation.

    On a partially unrelated note, I'd give anything to force George Bush and the other "tough on crime" politicians out there to watch this pod and tell me what they would say to her daughters.
    TerryTate
  • when mere policy is allowed to supersede even simple plain wisdom, the whole dam system becomes inhuman and corrupt--the laws, the "hapless" judges, even these "take charge without a dam clue" politicians--are just adjacent parts to one huge, compounding cluster ph'k...one after another. (and these arrogant bass-turdz probably consider *us* lucky that we don't see half the shite they do!!!) but what exceptionally enables them is that they go freakn' completely unquestioned... that's a beef i have even with this well-told story. yes MUCH thanks to mummer' that she gets a story out that certainly begs questions, but it could have gone a bit further if only to be more effective... The most egregious culprits who reverse her timely release, despite letters of accomodation and a family that NEEDS her, adding yet *more* time to her sentence, don't even get a ph'kn face... these heartless chicken shite mferz don't deserve a free pass for a story like this, but...somehow...g'dammit...they got one...and all we can do is kick the wall? that's NOT "justice."

    but if we call 'em out...then maybe things will CHANGE. if they get to hide from *real* social expectations like the roaches they are, never seeing the light of public scrutiny (as I've said before), they'll just keep on perpetuating the SAME bs over and over again unhindered like whatever.

    ph'k it...go for the pullitzer mummer' is what I say, and call 'em out!!! especially when they seem determined NOT to do what's right or affect the change that *makes* it right! .
    echoz
  • Calling politicians out only works when you actually contact the politicians, you can't expect the media to do it for you. That said, immediately after making my last post I went to www.congress.org and wrote my Senators to let them know what I thought about cases like Hamedah's.

    Granted my messages alone won't do a whole hell of a lot by themselves, but imagine if everyone who watched Current did the same thing...

    Food for thought.
    TerryTate
  • who are the people that added time to her sentence??? Does Anyone Know (care)? Oh yeah...maybe TerryTates' congressmen can tell me!!! ??? I'm not confident it was any congressman who directly did that to Hamedah; and I certainly don't think it's asking too much of journalism to probe just a little deeper to answer that for us...especially with all the glowing comments about "access" here...and especially when the answer could possibly make for a more immediate, direct and affecting solution...even to future/other cases similar to Hamedah's. somehow I think someone else is just a bit *more* responsible for what's happening to Hamedah and other like her...

    I just see it kinda like complaining to your congressman because you think police action is over-aggressive and over-fortified, while neglecting to let the dam PIG himself know what you think of him while he's peppering, clubbing and tazing your a$$ to the ground with six other pigs "aiding" him with smirking smiles on their faces... if they're in the wrong or directly becoming of the problem, phukm all I say...

    kudos for at least calling your congressmen though. Glad he gets a wind of the angry sentiment you're blowing his way for the extreme injustice people are suffering while the executioners go faceless....
    echoz
  • This just shows how pathetic our society is. I wonder how do the people who have the power to really make a difference in the world - but don't exert it! SLEEP AT NIGHT! How do you look at yourself in the mirror?
    aworldapartfilms
  • Great pod...these types of things make no sense, ucking laws are bullspit. so much time is spent on the design of these laws to keep the people in check. stuff is just horrible so much pain for nothing, they wonder why we go insane.
    NoMadN
  • the name of this clip could not suit it better. this case struck a nerve somehow and made me think, for the first time, how many inmates are receiving HARSH punishments for crimes that did not harm anybody and they were not even DIRECTLY involved in. this woman has been robbed of a third of her life. her incarceration indirectly affects the lives of her three children and the rest of her family.....it is incredibly sad to picture Hamedah's young children growing up deprived of their mother; for school graduations, proms, possibly weddings.... to care for them and love them unconditionally....all because she is 1,000 miles away serving time for an indirect crime. the truly sad part, however, is that the overpopulation of jails in America is costing tax payers a continually rising amount of money and yet the system ADDS time to sentences they have already reduced. whatever happened to common courtesy? when will each american be given equal rights? the system gets you once and you are theirs forever. shouldn't forgiveness be the first step towards peace? now i am rambling...but on one last note...thanks to current t.v. for bringing this often overlooked topic to our living rooms. if only every channel was so beneficial and eye opening.
    rook
  • that fucken bullshit
    give her freedom she is innocent
    whomeyoupoop
  • AS A NATION WE SHALL PRAY.
    jes_n_pres
  • this almost made me cry...its so easy for this to happen to so many families. im showing this to everyone
    osmaria
  • good woman
    U.S. is sick and needs to heal
    mrmartin
  • As sad as this story is, I find that I am not as empathetic as most of the responders. The young lady readily admits to engaging in illegal activity, from delivering drugs to dealers to handling transactions with drug money that she knew was obtained from selling said drugs. It is a shame that her sentence is so lengthy but she did do illegal things. She doesnt seem appologetic that she was involved in these illegal activies. What about the kids and families that were damaged due to the impact of the drugs sold to them. She also stated in the short that she knew this activity was going on before she went there with her children. I know there are programs and places for battered women to go to, with their children. It is ashame that she neglently put her children in this situation. I would have been more empathetic to her plight if she had taken more personal responsibility and blame for getting herself in this situation.
    blphill_77
  • A well produced pod. Heartbreaking story. Please keep us updated on her fight for freedom.
    mikeygleason
  • This appears to be such a miscarriage of justice. I've seen murders and child molesters get less time.
    ratedpgonline

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