I also run across some materials regarding Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black journalist who is supposed to have killed a policeman and was sentenced to the death penalty in 1982. It seems that the state has its own methods to get false guilty pleas from its citizens, such as torture or a legal right to threaten to charge the defendant’s relatives with crimes (Brown, 2014, p.491).

According to Brown, many people have been punished despite having broken no laws, and sometimes for the most serious kinds of crimes (Brown, 2014, p.488).

The US not just has the highest incarceration rate in the world, but the prisoners here are often imprisoned even without a trial (Brown, 2014, p. And this article convinced me that, indeed, there are many similarities between the Kafka’s world and our modern juridical system. One of the materials I found was an article by D. If the US is said to have so many prisoners, what is the reason for it? Is it true that we have so many criminals in our, or is there a problem in our system of justice? Both alternatives seemed strange, so I decided to investigate the issue further. The world of the novel and some gossip I read on the Internet about the USA being a country with the highest imprisonment rate in the world have caused me to look for additional information. After a year passes since the day he was first accused, the protagonist is taken out of his home and executed (Kafka, 1925, p. His efforts to find out what he has done, what he is charged with, and how to deal with that, turn out to be utterly vain. One day, its main character, despite knowing he hasn’t done anything wrong, finds himself charged with a crime (Kafka, 1925, p. The reality described in The Trial is a grim one.

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