Speedy justice is less expensive justice

My Church’s men’s group had the St. Louis County Sheriff Ross Litman drop by and talk to us last week. He spent a fair amount of time talking about the housing of prisoners at the jails and for good reason. The Trib reports that St. Louis County spent one and a half million extra last year paying for prisoner’s upkeep when the courts should have been finished with them. I presume that waste is sprinkled throughout the state in all 87 counties.

The Courts, which have been underfunded by the legislature simply don’t have the manpower. I should know. I had a civil procedure drag out for a couple years due to under staffing despite having some of the best paid and most competent lawyers bird dogging the case.

And this doesn’t even count prisoners who were incarcerated because of police dishonesty.

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