Criminal Injustice
Police State
The United States claims to be the freest country, but it has the most draconian "Justice" system in the entire world. Constitutional rights are almost never respected. Federal law enforcement has unlimited leeway to lie and cheat without any consequences. Defendants are abused and punished long before they are even convicted. The rule of law is rarely respected. Lawyers pledge oaths to a local branch of the "British Accreditation Regency" (not the Constitution). Federal courts are designed to be as minimally transparent as possible. Judges face zero accountability whatsoever, and are free to rule however they see fit. The Founding Fathers would be appalled with the dystopian nightmare of a justice system we have developed over the past few decades.
More Prisoners Than Communist China!
The Most In the World... By A Longshot
We lock up a larger percentage of our population than communist China, and we lock up more people than almost all other western democracies combined. One quarter of all the worlds prisoners are locked up in the United States. Some people believe that's because we have more criminals, but the truth is that Two-thirds of the people locked up in the United States are unconvicted (meaning they shouldn't be locked up in the first place). Our system is so broken and harsh, that one quarter of all Americans have a criminal record. Does anyone really think that 1/4 of all Americans are actual criminals??
25 %
Of the Worlds Prisoners are in the US
67 %
Of Prisoners in US are Unconvicted
77 Million
Total Americans Living With A Criminal Record
Rigged Legal System
Setting You Up
We are supposed to be a free country, but the US legal system is designed to set people up and make it impossible for anyone to defend themselves:
Constitutional Abomination
Your Rights Do Not Exist
Most Americans were raised to believe that they have constitutional rights to protect them. But in reality, those rights do NOT exist.
Crooked Courts
Judges Are:
Zero Transparency
Courts Don't Have to Respect Your Rights
Why Not?
They operate under DC jurisdiction
Washington DC is not a state. So it doesn't have to follow the Constitution in the same way the states do. Federal courts across the country are all franchises of the federal court system in DC - meaning they also operate under DC jurisdiction, and do not have to follow the Constitution as the unbreakable supreme law of the land either. They are all free to be as arbitrary and capricious as they desire.
Political Prosecutors
Career Advancement Via Cruelty
An alarmingly high amount of politicians and judges start off as prosecutors. Prosecutors don't get ahead by being fair or just, they get ahead by lying and cheating to pack as many bodies into prisons as possible. Numbers are all that matter. Constitutional rights are ignored.
Prison Conditions
"Correctional" Facilities?
The Prison System is supposed to rehabilitate people who are disrupting civil society, but it does exactly the opposite. Inmates emerge from prison completely broke and extremely traumatized from the abusive environment.
Prison Labor
Legal Slavery
The flawed 13th Amendment allows slavery for people who have been convicted of a crime. Instead of getting paid minimum wage so they can have money to keep themselves off the street when they get out, inmates are widely exploited as slaves - earning pennies per hour:
Prison Jobs:
Is it a FAIR MARKET when some companies get to use Slave Labor while others don't?
Post Prison
Profiting Continues
People who served their time should be released to try and rebuild their lives. But the predatory "justice" system is designed to find any reason possible to send them back to prison, and to extort as much money from them as possible in the process:
Halfway Houses
Instead of being released after they've served their time, many inmates are sent to halfway houses, where they face draconian rules designed to get them thrown back in prison, and are required to pay 25% of their income for the substandard housing they receive.
Counseling
Counseling (Drug/Alcohol/Mental Health) can be helpful when used prudently. But nearly all inmates released from federal prison are required to attend mandatory counseling services (whether or not they are even necessary) which many of them then have to pay for.
Monitoring Services
Both before trial, and after their sentence is complete, many inmates are mandated to 24/7 monitoring services which they have to pay for (Ankle trackers, phone/computer monitors, etc). The use of these services has exploded because courts make kickbacks off of them.
Who Profits?
Prison Corps
Massive prison corporations don't just profit off of inmates while they are locked up. They profit off the ankle trackers, monitoring software, and halfway houses too.
Insurance Corps
Insurance corporations profit off of surety bonds, bail bonds, and the real estate bonds prisons use to fund themselves. The more draconian the system becomes, the higher the profits.
Prison Vendors
Inmates are price-gouged at every opportunity. Food from commissary, telephone minutes, video calls, and even western union transfer fees all cost way more than fair market value.