The present culture often systematically, fundamentally and permanently denies a broad section of the populace a viable avenue for meaningful expressions of individual creativity (on a relative basis), and this societal road block (which most usually has roots in twisted economic and political ideologies) in turn incrementally thwarts self actualization and personal achievement. Outside help is generally not available, and the latent abilities and capacities of each individual are thereby laid to waste; to use P. Shelley's terms: "full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness [greatness] on the desert air" ( brackets mine), and full many a marvelous man is doomed to atrophy in heart and soul behind prison walls, or on the streets of nowhere land. Such are the putrid fruits of USA's criminal justice system.
Thus, “...[t]he future criminal is usually a person who has had little opportunity to use his creative abilities [in a socially acceptable manner], and planning an illegal act provides an outlet for this potentiality.” Halleck,
The Crime of Punishment, Karl Menninger, M.D.
The Viking Press, 1969, p.180 .
A greater lie has never been spoken/written by United States Government officials (concerning criminal justice system ) than the one shown below:
In a press release dated November 9, 2010, the U.S. State Department dismissed concerns as to legal meltdown within the U.S. in the following statement:
"The U.S. criminal justice system rests on the protection of individual human rights and basic principles of due process and fair and equal treatment. "