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by p49k 2168 days ago
Many people in prison in the US did not commit the crime they were accused of; thanks to wildly inflated sentencing, many people choose a 1-year plea bargain over a 10-15 year roll of the dice.
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> Many people in prison in the US did not commit crimes;

By all means cite %, and still does not make it a concentration camp.

Further the DAs are themselves elected locally in many jurisdictions or appointed by locally elected officials and people can vote for change if they want it.

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