More Than $100 Billion Spent On Wrongful Convictions In The United States

In the "land of the free", the government has spent more than $100 billion on wrongful convictions.

Along with this, let's also consider that a majority of the cases in the country don't ever see a jury or make it to court, they plea out.

Many innocent people are often placed behind bars. There are a great deal of people that have been later exonerated from death row for example, some of them having spent decades behind bars when they should never have spent a single second. It's a grave injustice that gets perpetrated against many individuals of all different backgrounds.

For those who are at least vaguely familiar with the inner workings of the criminal justice system and the fruit that it bears on a regular basis, it is hard to see it as anything other than an utter disgrace which often makes a mockery of true justice.

We can also see in a variety of circumstances how there is a different sort of "justice" that the individual experiences depending on how much money the accused has. Quite often, we have seen that there are very different outcomes when you can afford a private attorney, than when you are given an overworked and underpaid public defender.

This money is coming from hard working people, the majority of them just trying to do right by their family, live comfortably and in peace. And along the way, they are forced to hand over their resources to what could rightly be described as an organized crime syndicate.

This organization has demonstrated on numerous occasions that they are going to be foolish with those funds, trillions of dollars going to pay off debt to banks or fund never-ending wars overseas. The individual would be better off had they been able to keep their resources in the first place, because the stronger the individual is then the stronger the community can become.

Not only do they often demonstrate no intellect when distributing our funds, but they also use those funds to further strip away the rights of all individuals and to attack them on a regular basis in a variety of ways.

That could be violating their privacy rights with spying, confiscating their car or house when they haven't been convicted of a crime (happens all the time), treating them as a criminal at the airport and violating their property rights by actions that rightly can be defined as sexual assault. If they did that to anyone on the street in regular clothing etc, they would be charged.

The government as we know it today is a cesspool of violence and it is the individual that suffers in the end, always, whether they are on the left or right, it doesn't matter. And to know that many people in the United States are struggling and that most would not be able to handle an unexpected emergency of $400-$1000 without having to ask for help, and then you see the state pissing away the trillions that they do on corrupt and fruitless, nonsensical endeavors, well, it isn't pleasant. The fact that they have spent near $200 billion on wrongful convictions should tell us that there is something very wrong with the justice system today that this many people have been wrongfully targeted and caged.

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