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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If you can’t afford the bail, you go to jail until proven innocent; it can take five years to go to trial.
Have a friend in jail right now for something she didn’t do and they have no evidence 0
I had no idea the numbers were so large, but there are only so many courts and so many court hours and when you are trying to create a slave population using the prisons, they had to do this.
A bit late re your ‘Due Process is dead’ line. USA’s substantive Due Process died in 1937. What you have now is procedural Due Process. And, procedural Due Process is light years removed from substantive Due Process.
Oh I get it your all innocent
Plea bargaining !
Yep
If the statistics are correct –that there was no trial–because the guy plea bargained–Which means he gets a lighter sentence if he went through a trial and lost–THAT MEANS THAT THIS SLEEZBALL THAT made this headline tried to mislead!!!!!–RIGHT SLEEZBALL???Why don’t you say that these are repeat offenders that know how to play the system—NOW THAT IS SHOCKING!!!
Such BS no Fing way !
That is disgreful and unjustified abused.
Is against human rights.