https://4closurefraud.org/2012/06/29/land-of-the-free-the-best-investigative-reporting-on-u-s-prisons/ - Fighting Foreclosure Fraud BY SHARING THE KNOWLEDGE Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:42:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://4closurefraud.org/2012/06/29/land-of-the-free-the-best-investigative-reporting-on-u-s-prisons/#comment-388173 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:36:57 +0000 https://4closurefraud.org/?p=48682#comment-388173 Its a disgrace !

]]> https://4closurefraud.org/2012/06/29/land-of-the-free-the-best-investigative-reporting-on-u-s-prisons/#comment-387279 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 04:44:44 +0000 https://4closurefraud.org/?p=48682#comment-387279 Our justice and prison system needs a major overhaul that it is not likely to improve as long as we believe in punishing people by warehousing them instead of rehabilitation or retraining. Our criminal legal system brags in of a 99% conviction rate and uses that to ‘persuade’ people to plead out, whether they are guilty or not in some cases. The public defenders using statistics to frighten people into pleading fail to tell them that the conviction rate is not based on jury trial but plea bargaining. Unless one has adequate representation and I mean “paid” legal representation, they are unlikely to have a chance. If unable to make bond, they will sit in some holding jail for months and months until they plead guilty unless they file for fast and speedy trial. Public Defenders work for the state or government. They are part of the problem not a solution. It is their job to see that those convicted plead out because they have too many assignments to represent through trial plus it is too much work and expensive on the state. A jury trial of peers is little more than a myth. When they destroyed the incentive of parole, they made it almost impossible for men and women to work positively for early release. There should be separate facilities for those arrested for drug use that focuses on rehabilitation.
It is so obvious that we have lost integrity and compassion in this country in favor of greed at the expense of human rights.
Louisiana’s prison system would be a joke if it wasn’t such a tragedy!

]]> https://4closurefraud.org/2012/06/29/land-of-the-free-the-best-investigative-reporting-on-u-s-prisons/#comment-387206 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:12:37 +0000 https://4closurefraud.org/?p=48682#comment-387206 Great post – it is a tragedy and a shame we have so many incarcerated in this country. We have people imprisoned simply because they are poor! Our systems are out of control, broken and much more harmful than most realize. Losing one’s home to fraud is a confirmation of widespread injustice, and we have things in common with our brothers and sisters who needlessly suffer in prisons across the USA.

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