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Right...they sure are, and I know from direct experience. However, paid defense lawyers sure get a nice dividend from these recidivists. Cops get the jobs, st
by cubano 12y ago
Right...they sure are, and I know from direct experience.
However, paid defense lawyers sure get a nice dividend from these recidivists.
Cops get the jobs, status, and power they seek from arresting them.
The prison industrial complex owes it's entire business model to them (as first-timers rarely get state prison time), and the last time I checked, DOC was the largest state budget item for CA and FL (I'll admit to maybe being a little off here)
Need I go on?
- spopejoy 12y agoAgreed, the fact that we even talk about a "business model" for incarceration is horrific. Indeed much of NY state is economically dependent on corrections, it's ugly. Still, lawyers aren't getting rich defending the masses of underprivileged felons filling our prisons. Defending these folks is a pretty honorable task.