I feel that the criminal justice system is both working and not working. It does a good job of getting the bad people into jail and the worse into prison, but sometimes innocent people are taken into custody as well. Many people believe that “innocent until proven guilty” isn’t how it really works, and I believe it. Here’s an example from an anonymous user on a criminal justice blog, “I was in a situation where I was falsely accused of a crime and had to wait a whole month in jail since my grandfather put up his house for bail. I still had to go to court and pay a lawyer 20,000 to prove my innocence. Innocent till proven guilty is a lie.” This shows that the court system didn’t treat him innocently until he was able to prove it. But there
