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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

For Dan Canon, author of Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates A Permanent Criminal Class , the connection between plea bargaining and the deplorable state of the American criminal justice system, which has resulted in the highest incarceration rate in the world, is no accident. DC: The law exists to protect capital.