Certainly there are those who are guilty of crimes, but our justice system is in bad need of reform. We incarcerate more people than any other nation in the world and now our nation is struggling to figure out how we change that. One way would be to have more fair media coverage on both those being prosecuted and the tactics used by prosecutors to get convictions.
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