How correct. The courts are dysfunctional. I also agree that prisons serve a function and like Richard Pryor once cracked in one of his comedy routines: "Thank God for the Penitentiary." As much as I hate being locked up, there are certain guys I met while inside, that if i were to see them walking down the street, I would kill them myself and consider it a public service. Certain individuals need to be jailed. On the other hand, there are innocent people inside, not to mention guys who were too harshly penalized. On my last bid for drug conspiracy, I spent ten years in the joint and no drugs were ever produced. It has gotten bad when you can get a life sentence for drug conspiracy and no drugs have to be produced. It's a conspiracy, right. All they need is to think that you may be selling drugs. Now, you can get convicted of murder without a body. NC was the first to do that in the 90s. It used to be that without a body, there can be no murder. And then the constant madness of prison itself.
Most people who break the law, such as so-called veteran crooks, know the risks and are willing to accept the consequences if busted. Still, we want to be treated fairly as much as allowed by law, and when this doesn't happen-----well, what happens is that these guys sit around and invent new crimes to wreak havoc on the free world when they do get out. Carjackings, home invasions, etc. I was there when the blueprint for these crimes were hatched. People think that I just be writing books to be writing, but when I was writing from inside, these books had warnings. COOCHIE, though a novel, was about a Russian pornographer recruiting nickel and dime pimps into a scheme to snatch black girls and sell them into the sex trade. That was not fiction.
So until, changes are made somewhere in the criminal justice system, then the free world will be nothing more to guys inside than a big old laboratory which they will use to work the kinks out the their new criminal schemes. I have said it countless times, but any time a convict is released without a support system, then someone's life or well-being is at stake. These guys are emotionally crippled, and cant think fast enough to survive in the fast-paced new world.Being unable to cope, they revert back to what they know---violence.