In what way is "keeping prisoners in prison" related to the "well-documented cluster-fuck that is the judicial system in the US"? Keeping prisoners in jail is

In what way is "keeping prisoners in prison" related to the "well-documented cluster-fuck that is the judicial system in the US"? Keeping prisoners in jail is absolutely required. Determining if they should be in there in the first place is not the responsibility of the prison system, it is a responsibility of the judicial system. It sounds to me like the OP hit the brief on the head.