Secondly, Andy's loophole is a loophole in the American tax system. Andy helps prison guards and prison officials evade taxes to get leniency, forges a fictional identity to launder money for prison officials, and finally reveals that prison officials helped them escape. This involves the crime of tax evasion and money laundering in law. The crime of tax evasion means that taxpayers and withholding agents deliberately violate tax laws and regulations, forge, alter, conceal or destroy account books and vouchers, overstay expenses or omit income in account books, refuse to declare or make false tax returns after being notified by the tax authorities, and fail to pay or underpay the tax payable, which is a serious act. The crime of money laundering refers to the act of legally depositing the illegal income and income of drug crimes, organized crimes of underworld nature, crimes of corruption and bribery, crimes of terrorist activities, crimes of smuggling, crimes of disrupting financial management order and crimes of financial fraud into financial institutions, investing or listing and circulating them.
In addition, Andy was sentenced to life imprisonment because some American States have abolished the death penalty. Life imprisonment is a severe punishment between fixed-term imprisonment and death penalty. Life imprisonment is a penalty method that deprives criminals of their freedom of life and forces them to reform through labor. The term of life imprisonment shall be counted from the date when the judgment is pronounced, and the date of detention before the judgment is pronounced shall not be counted in the term. After life imprisonment is commuted to fixed-term imprisonment, fixed-term imprisonment shall be executed, and the day of detention shall not be counted as the term of imprisonment. It is mainly applicable to criminals who endanger national security and other major criminals and serious economic criminals who need to be permanently isolated from society, and the death penalty is not applicable. It can be seen that Andy was sentenced to life imprisonment, which is a heavy sentence.
In addition, Andy's friend Rhett was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. He applied for parole three times and succeeded the third time, which involved the parole system in the United States. Parole is a system in which criminals sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or life imprisonment are conditionally released in advance after a certain term of imprisonment, because they abide by prison regulations, receive education and reform, do show repentance and no longer endanger society. A paroled criminal who commits a crime again within the probation period of parole does not constitute a recidivist. Parole is an important penalty execution system in our criminal law. Correctly applying parole and putting those criminals who have really repented after serving their sentences for a certain period of time into society can effectively urge criminals to obey education and reform, make them return to society as soon as possible, and help turn negative factors into positive ones. The parole system in the United States is related to its criminal judgment, and when the prisoner is released is determined by the parole board at its discretion. The Parole Board will consider these cases on a case-by-case basis according to the criminal history, prison performance and possible danger to society. This system is supported by prison officials because it helps to reduce the pressure of overcrowding in prisons. However, some citizens believe that the parole system has brought security risks to society. Therefore, at present, the parole system has been abolished at the federal level in the United States, but most States still retain the provisions on parole.
In addition, as can be seen from the film, the judicial system in the United States is different from that in China. From the scene in court, we can find that American lawyers have more rights and freedoms than China lawyers. As can be seen from the film, American lawyers talk about Kan Kan in court, while China lawyers can only make simple statements and debates on the case. Unlike American lawyers, we can talk about it socially and emotionally. If this happens in China, the judge will only ask you to stop speaking in an irrelevant case. It can be said that in European and American legal system countries, such as the United States, lawyers play an important role in cases, while in civil law countries, such as China, the existence of lawyers is more to prove the existence of trial procedures, and the final result depends largely on judges.