A very telling remark. When I used to try to counsel my young apprentices who almost invariably were facing serious criminal prosecutions, or skirting the edge, I told them the biggest problem they would face is that once you are in the system, you are a second class citizen.

For every well-intended and erudite practioner in law and law enforcement for the poor, upstream of actual field officers, there are hundreds of incompetent low performers at best, sadists at worst.

Justice and rehabilitation are empty words, it is just a job with benefits.

I take a systems approach to deciphering things I know little about, and it occurs to me that the revolving door of juvenile through adult reprobation through the courts is an industry fueled in large part by drug money, a defacto laundering scheme.

This is very encouraging to see your report that the economic barriers to pursuing real social litigation are being addressed.