https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0atL1HSwi8
The current US system is mindblowingly stupid. People who are treated like animals tend to act like it, especially if they're encouraged to.
And I'm beginning to think: Maybe it is a success. What if it's a success by keeping police forces busy? What if it's a success by keeping private jails thriving. What if it’s a success keeping a legal establishment justified in its self-generated activity? Maybe it’s a success on different terms than the publicly stated ones."
The US justice system works great for the ones who are being paid to keep it running.
I would have a hard time voting for a guilty plea except in the most exceptionally horrible cases, because I would find it exceptionally hard to justify making anyone suffer through the US prison system. That would include if it was a murder trial or similar.
Not only do I find the US prison system immoral for its treatment of inmates, I find it immoral for the violence it is indirectly responsible for inflicting on wider society by actively treating people in a way known to at best be ineffective, and at worst having a massively negative effect on re-offending rates.
Anyone worried about violent crime in the US should start by demanding reform of the prison system.
I'd alternatively say that "people tend to act defensively/aggressively when they are mistreated the way humans mistreat other animals so often"