even my Southern Poverty Law Center criminal law/procedure prof told us, in the United Stated something like 95% of criminal defendants plead guilty. Why? Because they are guilty.

95% of federal civil cases are are settled out of court. Does that mean 95% of defendants are liable? Or is something else going on?

I find it odd that people seem to think that our prisons are making anything more than a token attempt at rehabilitation. Yes, I am sure that 1-5 years of ass-rape at a juvenile detention facility works wonders for the soul.

Then again, I wonder what percentage of BC readers have helicopters flying over their neighborhoods every night. Or are subject to SWAT raids on a daily basis. We don’t even see the fiscal effect of having the highest incarceration rate in the world as we fund our prisons with borrowed money.