I don’t disagree that there are people whose absence makes the world a better place. But like everything else in our criminal justice system, the most awful outliers are used to justify the tools of cruelty and barbarism that are inevitably used on the vast majority of people caught up in the gears of the system who aren’t the most awful outliers.
That’s not a bug in our system, it’s the core function: American society might pretend to be horrified by inhumane jails every once in a while, but we love it when someone like Diddy or Weinstein gets tossed in there. We might not like it when someone innocent or sympathetic gets brutalized (or executed), but we sure as hell don’t hate it when it happens to someone unsympathetic. We didn’t end up with this system by accident.
