Prosecutocracy

Conrad Black’s description of the political and economic forces behind the U.S. criminal justice system that imprisoned him for fraud.

Writing in Spear’s Wealth Management Survey, from his Federal prison cell, the former press tycoon claimed:

I have been persecuted by one arm or more of the U.S. government for over five years and had to post bond of $38 million. The system is based on the plea bargain, the bare-faced exchange of incriminating testimony for immunity or a reduced sentence. It is intimidation and suborned or extorted perjury, an outright rape of any plausible definition of justice.

Describing himself as “a victim of the American prosecutocracy,” Black stated:

U.S. justice has become a command economy based on the avarice of private prison companies, a gigantic prison service industry, and politically influential correctional officers’ unions (750,000 members), agitating for an unlimited increase in the number of prosecutions and the length of sentences.