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Sometimes someone else says it better, this time it is the editorial board of the Washington Post summing up the Justice Department under President Trump, Convicted for Leaving Water for Migrants in the Desert -- This is Trump's Justice:
That is a snapshot of twisted frontier justice in the age of Trump. Save a migrant’s life, and you risk becoming a political prisoner. Kill a Mexican teenager, and you walk free.
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Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps The Innocent and Makes America More Unequal by Alexandra Natapoff, a professor at University of California-Irvine School of Law, is a compelling study of the corrosive effects of our unwieldy -- some 13 million misdemeanor charges are filed annually in the United States -- low-level misdemeanor crime system.
Professor Natapoff, a former public defender in Baltimore, appeared recently on Terry Gross' Fresh Air program on NPR; the interview recording and transcript can be read here.
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