Chris W. Surprenant and Jason Brennan: Injustice for all: how financial incentives corrupted and can fix the US criminal justice system

The criminal justice system presents itself as a vast, convoluted matrix of intractable problems. As one attempts to unravel the nest of its contradictions, frustration mounts as recognition grows that each issue is intertwined with all the others. With anger over the unprecedented scale of incarceration and regrettable condition of those institutions; the discontent surrounding policing (profligate use of fines and fees, no-knock warrants, civil asset forfeiture) and the avalanche of laws that have effectively buried a mass of indigent defendants there is no shortage of resentment to sustain a serious legitimacy crisis. …