With less than 5% of the world’s population – but nearly 25% of the world’s prison population – the U.S. leads the world in the incarceration of its own citizens. With the vote today it is clear that both liberal stalwarts and Tea Party favorites recognize that our country incarcerates too many people, for too much time, at too much expense to taxpayers. Yet federal prosecutors are defending the current system with its enormous racial disparities, mass incarceration, and unjust penalties. Apparently they are still living in the dark ages. Federal prosecutors are so entitled by decades of unfettered discretion they don’t feel the need to acknowledge the consensus emerging around them that the system of mass incarceration is profoundly unfair and unsustainable. Their statement typifies the singular barrier prosecutors represent to reforming the deeply flawed criminal justice system.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 02:00:05 +0000
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