Comparing The Justice System In The Shawshank Redemption And Cool Hand Luke

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The justice system is in place to protect society from dangerous individuals by imprisonment and rehabilitation. Whether or not the former occurs effectively enough in prisons is debatable. Andy Dufresne and Luke Jackson, from the films The Shawshank Redemption and Cool Hand Luke respectively, are two of those citizens that have been placed in prison to protect society. The prison system failed to rehabilitate either men in any way, but rather it failed them. As a result, both men look to ways to escape the brutality and malfeasance projected onto them by the prison authority. In the films, The Shawshank Redemption and Cool Hand Luke, prisoners exhibit a disobedience to authority as a result of distrust or loss of faith in the justice system’s efforts to rehabilitate them.
The film Shawshank Redemption follows the story of Andy Dufresne,

When Tommy tells Andy that he heard a former cellmate of his bragging about killing a banker’s wife and her lover, Andy goes to Norton whom he still trusts would do what is right for the innocent. That is not the case, however. When Norton shoots down any ideas to prove the prisoner’s innocence that could be thought of, Andy, inferring the reason for Norton’s reluctance is his knowledge of the money laundering occuring at the prison, mentions he would keep mum about the operation. Norton, already furious by being called obtuse by Andy, becomes exceptionally irritated by the admittance and sentences him to a month in solitary. It is evident that Andy is shocked by Norton’s behavior. He screams at the warden, “What's the matter with you? It's my chance to get out, don't you see that? It's my life! Don't you understand it's my life?” (TSR). Similarly, Luke loses faith in the justice system due to an