B1 – Intermediate
A huge mistake caused a man to spend longer in prison than his supposed sentence. Instead of being released in 2015, Sio Agafili ended up being imprisoned for another five years.
The mistake was spotted and Sio Agafili is now free and fighting for his rights after suffering from this injustice.
Read about this news and find out more about this wrongful jail sentence in Samoa.
https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2007/200710-jail-sentence-4.html
Discussion Questions:
- What is your opinion on this error?
- What should be the compensation for people who suffer this kind of injustice?
- How would you feel if you were Agafili and you were imprisoned unlawfully?
- Has anything like this happened in Spain? What happened to person who experienced it and what happened after the mistake was discovered?
- What do you think of when you hear the word “prison”?
4 replies on “Man Spent Five Years Too Long in Prison”
I think is very unfair. If he had to he 7 years in prision, why he have to be 5 year more just because an error?
In compensation they would give here the money that he could win in the 5 years. And all the people that did that Agafili stay five more years in prision will be penalized.
If this happens to me I would very angry and I would claim money and punishments for the organizers.
I don’t know if here, in Spain, happen something similar because I don’t know about the prision and the prisioners in Spain.
When I hear the world “prision” I think a place with high walls and with a very big tower with a light to seen if there are people trying to scape.
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I think this kind of error is unacceptable.
Any can not compensate for people who suffer this kind of injustice. I think judges, jury, lawyers and witnesses should be penalized also with jail when they participate in this kind of injustice. I am sure, in this way, next time they will be more careful before to accuse to an innocent.
At the beginning, I would feel angered, sad, desperate, anguished, anxiious, etc……But, after a period, I would try to take advantages studing, reading, meditationg, etc.
Recently, it happens to a Sandro Rosell, ex president of Barcelona Fotball Club. He was found guilty of theft money and he was sentenced to two years. But now, he was acquitted because he was declared innocent. Justice do not find any incriminating evidence.
He says nothing can pay the time he spent in prison, hence he claims justice. He hopes the gulties pay for that.
When I hear the Word “prison” I think of a four-walls little room, with a little window near to the ceiling. But if I think of Venezuela´s prisons, I think of a overcrowded place where prisoners are raped and mistreated.
Being imprisoned is bad enough. Being wrongfully imprisoned is worse. Thanks for sharing what you know about this topic.
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