The biggest stumbling block to justice in America to day is our legal system. It has become so cumbersome that only those who have made a career out of trying to understand it can benefit from it. Just like our tax system, the legal system is fraught with loop holes known only to the priests who service the temple.

We need to stop frivolous law suits and legal harassment. The best way to do that is to change our system of law suits to a loser pays all costs system. The way it is now, you can be right and still have to pay thousands, even millions of dollars in attorney fees and court costs. It is possible for someone with a grudge to ruin the life of another simply by bringing a suit against them, even though they know they will lose. To many times people will bring a suit against a company knowing that the company will settle out of court because it is cheaper to do so than to win in court. A loser pays all system would prevent this from happening.

There is no law anymore, only lawyers. It doesn’t matter if you are right or wrong, what matters is who can hire the best attorney. Justice is found in the pocket book.

As for criminal law and our over crowded prisons, we need to reduce the number of repeat offenders. This can best be done through a two tiered prison system:
1.First Tier: Correctional Institutions where non violent first time offenders are sent. Here they are given opportunities to earn an education with emphasis on how to make it in the world legally. More like an educational system, this gives people true rehabilitation opportunities. They must graduate at a higher level than they were at when they entered and they must have a job waiting on the outside.

2.Second Tier: Prisons where all violent offenders and repeat non violent offenders are sent. Here they are warehoused with no privileges or perks. Time is spent in a cell with reading materials provided, only leaving the cell for supervised exercise -- meals served in the cell. After an appropriate time is spent in the prison, they may be paroled to a correctional institution on the first tier where they will go through the rehabilitation process. Misbehavior at the correctional institution will result in going back to the prison.

Our country has to many lawyers and to many prisons. We need a criminal system that works by actually making getting caught for a crime something that is unpleasant and by providing real opportunities for people to change. And we need a system that is responsive to the people, not just lawyers. We can only do this by being sure crime doesn’t pay.