Byline: TOM TEEPEN
Amnesty International's recent rip on the U.S. criminal justice system has put American backs up. Don't we provide legal counsel, civil liberties, open trials, appeals? Wouldn't the world's criminal-justice average jump way up if no nation did worse at it than we do?
Yes. But ...
But even so, Amnesty has caught our not inconsiderable shortfalls and lapses. Many are now built into what passes for the system, secured there by a crude politics that, claiming to protect us from crime, in fact wastes money on practices that in their injustice and inhumanity actually produce more crime -- at the willful neglect of policies that would …
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