Jail is an extreme punishment that should be reserved for very serious offenses. In this country, we are conditioned to think of it as no big deal. No one bats

Jail is an extreme punishment that should be reserved for very serious offenses. In this country, we are conditioned to think of it as no big deal. No one bats an eye if someone sits in jails for months or years without being proven guilty. If you are eventually convicted, you get credit for the time you Sat in jail as an innocent. You were being punished although you were innocent. Yet people will recite that in America you are innocent until proven guilty. What good is your innocence if you are being punished. Land of the free with the most people in prison. All men are created equal in a nation built by slaves. The only folks who know what the criminal justice system is like are those who have been through it. People have been screaming from the mountain tops that the system is screwed up, but as long as the folks being locked up don't look like the majority, the majority is happy to turn a blind eye. As long as the neighborhoods that poli e drive around all day looking to lock people in cages don't look like the majority's, the majority doesn't care.