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The Criminal Justice System in every country is very different, and it’s amazing how laws can vary, and how criminal acts in a country can take a person to a death penalty or there are no serious punishments. The country I selected was Colombia, which is a country that is suffering day by day because the Criminal Justice System is weak and can’t take care of all of the criminals, such as the guerrila FARC, and the paramilities. The Colombian Penal Codes says that the maximum sentence is 40 years, this means that the death penalty doesn’t exist. In chapter IV in the Colombian Penal Code it talks about Prostitution, and says that any person who wishes to make money out of this, or induces to Prostitution, or is involved in the carnal commerce, may go to prison for 2 to 4 years, and will have to pay a restitution of $6000 to $53000. It also says that any per