UK cuts in legal aid have caused many trials to become unfair.

The UK's two main parties support the domination of society by business, with slightly different emphasis.

India still needs Ambedkar's message for eliminating castes. Just equalizing them in some degrees is not enough.

Iwao Hakamada has been granted a new trial after 48 years in prison for murder and 30 on death row, because DNA evidence showed he was not the killer.

The many convicted murderers who have been proved innocent ought to make us think about how reliable trials are. Meanwhile, most Americans accused of crimes don't dare insist on a trial; they plead guilty to a lesser charge. Perhaps many of them really are guilty, but not all.

Trials in Egypt are a sick joke, but trials in the US are often not very good. When Americans do have a trial, it is a form of theater, and the judge's bias (for instance, in favor of the thug that attacked a protester, against the protester) often determines the outcome.

US prisons have become harsh — the goal of rehabilitation has been dropped — and some prisoners suffer painful isolation for years.

Most of the people convicted of "terrorism" in the US didn't really do any. Some said they wanted to, but they were incompetent to really do anything without help from infiltrators. Some, like Aref, didn't even do that much.

The government's manipulation to prevent the prisoners' lawsuit from being heard are in themselves despicable.

A writer in the Washington Post complains that states that restore food stamps are using a "loophole" and that the intended spending cuts, covering .02% of the Federal budget, might be wiped out.