***

 JUSTCE KENNEDY\'S SPEECH to the ABA SAYS IT ALL:

"When it costs so much more to incarcerate a prisoner than to educate a child, we should take special care to insure that we are not incarcerating too many persons for too long.... Our resources are misspent, our punishments too severe, our sentences too long." 

Even Attorney General Eric Holder has spoken out against

warehousing so many members of the community in jail:

"Too many people go to too many prisons for far too long for no good law enforcement reason.   It is time to ask ourselves some fundamental questions about our criminal justice system.   Statutes passed by legislatures that mandate sentences, irrespective of the unique facts of an individual case, too often bear no relation to the conduct at issue, breed disrespect for the system, and are ultimately counterproductive.   It is time to examine our systems and determine what truly works"

***

but the defendant confessed ---he must be guilty...

Wrong...

Check out professor Kassin\'s research on false confessions

and WBUR\'s ANATOMY OF A FALSE CONFESSION

***

All should know, that the innocent not only get convicted.. THEY ARE PUT ON DEATH ROW.. 

Just check out Scheck and Neufeld\'s work at the Innocence Project.

and the Texas Tribune\'s interactive guide to the 86 individuals wrongfully convicted.

***

Many situations and problems you can, or wish to handle yourself, pro se.

Try out the following:

Self Help sites or  Great Links like,   Findlaw  and LawSmart.com