Yeah it's a money making scheme designed to keep you in the system for as long as possible. Each new citizen sucked in the system is job security for the cops, the jailers, the pre trial officers, the baliffs, the defense lawyers, the prosecutors, the judges, the court staff, the probation/parole officers and their various support staff, the prison construction companies and their various employees, the vendors who supply said jails and prisons, and on and on and on and on. The motherfuckers created a got damn industry out of thin fucking air and have ran with it. Yeah, I'm bitter.