@DrewDad,
Quote:The tax payers who would pay for all of the new judges, courtrooms, recorders, bailiffs, etc.?
Oh the lawyers, the jailers, the judges, the stockholders of the
private jails now being build and so on.............
The craziness of having a legal system that put far far greater percents of our total population in prison then any other advance nation would need to come to an end.
The taxpayers not needing to pay 30,000 a year or so to warehouse a large population of non-violence offenders for decades would be far better off.
Not to mention not taking millions of people away from being taxpayers themselves for decades or for life.
We have men now in prison for life for very minor crimes under the three strike rule and large percent of the total prison population is in prison for such evil crimes as selling/growing pot or running betting outfits.
Billions of dollars would pour in by taxing such things as pot growing or gambling instead of billions flowing out of the treasury to paid for this crazy so call justice system.
With the case load down to what the rest of the western world need to deal with you could not need to press people to give up their constitution right to have a jury trial and we could enjoy far more justice in our so call justice system.
