Critics of the criminal justice system have been railing against the utterly lopsided plea bargaining system, among many other CJ issues that all serve to prop

Critics of the criminal justice system have been railing against the utterly lopsided plea bargaining system, among many other CJ issues that all serve to prop up the others. Some cursory googling turns up: https://www.jstor.org/stable/796954 https://www.jstor.org/stable/796954 https://reason.com/archives/2011/07/05/the-devils-bargain https://reason.com/archives/2011/07/05/the-devils-bargain https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/us/tough-sentences-help-prosecutors-push-for-plea-bargains.html https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/us/tough-sentences-help-p... https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/go-to-trial-crash-the-justice-system.html https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/go-to-tria... https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/11/20/why-innocent-people-plead-guilty/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/11/20/why-innocent-peo... https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/12/26/plea-bargaining-and-the-innocent https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/12/26/plea-bargainin... https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-injustice-of-the-plea-bargain-system-1449188034 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-injustice-of-the-plea-barga... https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/innocence-is-irrelevant/534171/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/innocen... https://www.injusticewatch.org/interactives/2018/plea-bargain/baltimore.html https://www.injusticewatch.org/interactives/2018/plea-bargai...