AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM INC - Tecno-Libro

The United States is only about 5 percent of the world s population, but home to 25 per cent of global prisoners. The American criminal justice system presently is broken, and an example of justice run amok. The system has deteriorated to a point whereby innocent people are being imprisoned even with the lack of sufficient evidence. For the real criminals, punishments are often not commensurate with the crime. Consequently, the criminal justice system does more harm than good destroying lives, shattering dreams and crushing hopes and aspirations for happiness. The credo of legal jurisprudence in any civilized dispensation is that the accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty by a competent jurisdiction. However, in America, the reverse is the case due to its misguided penal policies spawned by greed and the interplay of politics and business within it. Prosecutors take to the extreme the dangerous human impulse to punish perceived offenders real or imagined. Stories of pr