Pros And Cons Of A Plea Bargain

The idea of a plea bargain presents people who have been charged with a sentence the opportunity to reduce their time served by admitting guilt to their charges. This system gives people who are already beyond reasonable doubt proven to be guilty a free way to reduce their sentence only to lighten the load of the court system. Instead of trying to improve the efficiency of our court system and to provide alternate services such as rehabilitation the government has found a way to incarcerate a person without changing the current system in any way. This plea bargain system feeds more and more prisoners into the system to increase profits. However, guilty criminals are not the only people who are affected by this system. An innocent person who …show more content…
For instance, Irma took the plea bargain even though she was completely innocent. She had been picked up in a drug raid along with many other people which happens very often in mass arrests. After taking the plea, the court realized there was not sufficient evidence to prove her and a handful of individual’s guilt so they were released, all except Irma. Because Irma had admitted guilt, she signed herself up for the guaranteed charge without knowing it. The drug war in America is a notorious “common enemy” that has been the driving force for the increase of drug arrests, rehabilitation programs, and other anti-drug movements. However, while this movement seems to be one that all good Americans should get behind and support it is in fact a vicious cycle of incarceration and crime. The drug war extorts the funds of the poor and at best only temporarily remove the criminals from the world while making no attempts to rehabilitate and change the ways of the addicts. Because of the tremendous economic output of a prison the country has been searching for a group of people to imprison and criminalize. They found this group in the drug