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Injustice anyone?

By "Ipse Dixit"

I had a client in custody yesterday. He had failed to appear 2 days ago. 26 years old. Living on the street. No criminal record whatsoever. Not even an arrest.He was charged with theft...for eating a piece of cheese in a store and not paying.He was hungry because he is homeless. He opened some shitty package of cheese worth $2 and ate one piece. And the offer from the prosecution, had he accepted, would have put him on probation for three years and 10 days in county jail, which would have set him up so that the next theft could have been charged as a felony and sent him to state prison.Is there any compassion left in this world??Sometimes my job breaks my heart.

Full post as published by Ipse Dixit on November 21, 2008 (boomark / email).