My wife is one of those sweet innocent mature ladies,
who is obsessed with murders..

Think of a notorious murder case and she's probably read the the books
and watched the documentaries and TV dramatisations..

This means I've watched enough documentaries with her,
to be well aware of how arbitrarily unfair and brutal American prison sentencing is..

Plea bargaining deals can seem almost incomprehensible to us Brits.

Exerting extreme pressure on apparently innocent defendants to plead guilty and go to jail,
just to avoid even harsher punishments if they go to trial in front of unsympathetic juries.

I could go as far as suggesting how class biased and racist USA juries seem to British eyes.

Yet this is the accepted norm in America..

Cops without guns shouldn't be the only thing us Brits are grateful for...

There's one long-running series which shows in-court video highlights
of attempted prisoner escapes, fights,
and appallingly behaved petty childish lawyers and judges..

Occasionally the worst of 'em get sacked..

.. by comparison, it makes a lot of our stereotype old-fashioned bigoted bastard provincial magistrates look like kind hearted angels..