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[theweaselking]

"clients who have lived difficult lives in hard neighborhoods don't see a conspiracy; they recognize incompetence and brutal indifference and injustice as features, not bugs. 'Justice system' is a label, not a description. The furnace on a steam locomotive bound for San Francisco does not have a goal of reaching San Francisco; the furnace just burns what you throw into it to move the train along." - Ken White, popehat.com

Comments

[torrain.livejournal.com]

That was a shockingly good article, and I say that as someone who likes reading Ken White's stuff because it's generally articulate and informative.

(And depressing. Dear god, depressing.)

[jerril]

Thanks for linking that. That's an excellent article, both on the state of the justice system and on depression.