It is statistics like this that makes it abundantly clear that the criminal justice originally envisioned by the Founding Fathers has become a farce, a parody of what it used to be. A horribly unfunny parody at that.
There are 2.2 million Americans currently behind bars, for whatever reason, today. While such a statistic might be read as indicating 2.2 million criminals are imprisoned, consider this: out of these 2.2 million, around 2 million have never received a trial, fair or unfair, for their alleged crimes.
That means that only 3% of the people in American prisons have actually been found guilty before their peers of breaking the law. The rest, only God and the government know because they’ve never been brought before independent juries and judges.
It is entirely possibly that some, or even a lot of the people currently being held without trial have committed crimes, but this is exactly why the Constitution guarantees the right to a fair and speedy trial. That way, the guilty are punished and the innocent are protected, instead of having the innocent lumped in with the guilty and treated as such.
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95% , I’m finding this one hard to believe.
many of cases are plea bargins. this is misleading. the person knows what they did and took the least penalty. others were scared into their decisions.
An most of them become Muslims.
You have the right to remain silent. You have the right to bleed if you chose to do so..
The dangerous criminals are in office.
We would be safer releasing all Americans from prison then we are accepting muslim refugees. [ or ant muslim ]
Nonsense. 95% plea deals whichceainly are part of due procss.
When prisons are ran by for profit corporations the people become a commodity to be exploited, mega prisons are built, and free society is reduced to a bunch of crimanals.
B******t everyone of them that are there was sat in front of a judge for sentencing Leagle. So dont go saying 95 percent of our criminals have not be legally tryed, charged and convicted of there crime’s more excuses to release them so they can harm all the citizen’s.