The ‘Assembly-Line’ Justice of Plea Bargaining
The Crime Report
AUGUST 20, 2021
In 1916, at a single Ford plant in Highland Park, Michigan, workers also reported almost 200 severed fingers and 75,000 other injuries. Around the same time, coincidentally, the American criminal justice system began leaning into a till-then rarely invoked practice called “plea bargaining.”. How did we get here?
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