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Mass Incarceration

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The Most Powerful Official in America Is the Prosecutors

The attitude captured in the opening monologue of Law and Order shows just how much emphasis and power we place in the hands of the prosecutor. Defense lawyers are really lucky if they have any access to investigators at all. Once you see prosecutorial power, once you are alive to it in the criminal justice system, it's everywhere.

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