> It is worth reminding everyone that a vanishingly small number of criminal defendants in the US commit suicide, despite whatever injustice they feel about the

> It is worth reminding everyone that a vanishingly small number of criminal defendants in the US commit suicide, despite whatever injustice they feel about their charges and despite any accusations of prosecutorial overreach. That's interesting. Do you have any cites for the numbers of suicides amongst the charged and the imprisoned? I'm not sure of the US definition of suicide (is it the same across different states?) nor how deaths are recorded, especially for people charged with but not yet tried for a crime. I mostly agree with the rest of what you say. The US criminal justice system is barbaric and inhumane. It is fantastically expensive. Reform of all of it would do the US a lot of good. More interesting to HN is, perhaps, how to hack a system that has become locked because of politics. Anyone suggesting drug reform or criminal justice reform or immigration reform is going to face, very early, huge entrenched well-funded campaigns of opposition. "How can change happen?" could be an interesting discussion.