Overcriminalization significantly undermines human flourishing and social well-being by harming the family, social networks, and social citizenship. Additionally, it prevents capable men and women from utilizing their creative capacities in the marketplace. This creates vast issues involving relations with family while incarcerated and reintegration into society after release. On the economic side, draconian cash bail systems undermine justice through basing someone's ability to attain pre-trial release upon their wealth, not their actual threat to society.
“In a fierce dissent, Justice Neil Gorsuch slammed the Supreme Court for letting Congress ‘endow the nation’s chief prosecutor with the power to write his own criminal code governing the lives of a half-million citizens.’ Enforcing the separation of powers, he wrote, is ‘about safeguarding a structure designed to protect their liberties, minority rights, fair notice, and the rule of law’.”
Forbes
June 21, 2019
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