In The Name Of The Father

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A hot topic that always draws an interested ear to the conversation is ones' views on social justice. The mere mention of the words draws people from far and wide and from all mixes of society. The main problem seems to come up when people really don't know what social justice issues face their society and the rest of the world. The question comes up of how much real knowledge of this subject do people invest in. It is quite surprising how many half truths that run rampant in any society. The whole idea around the word social is society but they tend to be for the most part in the dark on the subject. The people who have the monopoly of truth are the people instituting the injustice and the few who are publicly opposing them.

The movie, "In The Name of The Father," portrays a social injustice that took place in England. It is a story of a family that was wrongly imprisoned for a crime they did not commit. The two main characters who are suspected of the bombing are Paul Hill and Gerry Conlin. They are both from Belfast, Ireland and are in England to get away from all the craziness in their hometown. The two of them are shortly arrested after Gerry robs a prostitute's apartment. They took the money he stole and start

The movie changes a little around this part and they mostly only focus on Guiseppe and Gerry. They were taken to Puck Royal prison and stuck in with the murders and rapist. This prison held the most dangerous criminals on England. After about a week in the prison Inspector Dixon found out that they had nothing to do with the bombing and they had imprisoned completely innocent people. John McKendrick was the man who had done the bombing and many other and he confessed to the police when he got caught and told them to release the other people. The police not wanting to look bad did not a thing to right the wrong they had committed to these people. John is also sent to this prison where he meets Gerry and tells him that he confessed to the bombing but the police will not do anything about it. While in prison Guiseppe is hurt during a riot and his medical condition worsened. He already had pulmonary problems and being in jail was not helping.

Gerry and Paul are both arrested but neither knows why this is happening to them. They are both being held on a new law that allows police the right to hold possible terrorists for seven days before charging them. This gave the police the power to arrest anybody they wanted and do with them as they want for seven whole days. This power is never a good thing to give anybody and it did not work well here either. The police tortured them both and got names and anything they can use against them. The whole time trying to get them to admit to the bombing that had taken place in Guilford, England. While these interrogations were going on the police went out and arrested even more people which was the McGuire family, Gerry's father, Guiseppe Conlin, and a couple others. Carole Richardson and Patrick Armstrong were arrested for the bombing as well because they were friends of Gerrys'. Annie McGuire (his

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Approximate Word count = 1257
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

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