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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. Why does that matter? .