[DRAFT] - Implications of the Eternal Recess
[The Issue] - The abolition of the national judiciary has silenced courtrooms across @@NAME@@. It has also obliterated the practice of pretrial release, condemning low-level offenders nationwide to rot away in correctional facilities steadily filling to capacity.
[issuevalidity] - Nation has No Courts. Nation must have prisons.
[Option 1] - "This is unacceptable!" asserts famed humanitarian @@RANDOMNAME@@. "Conditions within our jails are deteriorating by the day, and while I entirely believe serial ticket-dodgers should suffer greatly for their heinous crimes, it's time that we restore order to the justice system. That order is restored only when courts are too. So @@LEADER@@, you know what to do."
[effect] - first-time bread thieves are happy to leave the grain gang on a judge’s order
[policychange] - Removes No Courts
[Option 2] - "We've already burned the bench- done deal," counters Secretary @@RANDOMNAME@@. "I hate to arraign on the humanitarian parade, but it's worth remembering the real problem here. Which is of course, that my department, the Department of Civil and Criminal Mediation, Correction, Justice and Legal Appeals, is dreadfully understaffed and underfunded. With more @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ and people, we'll be able to quickly slap criminals with their sentences, or send them on their way- time served."
[effect] - an arrest no longer shaves several years off the life of an arrestee
[Option 3] - "I'd lock myself up before trusting the empty platitudes of a government goon," moans former @@CAPITAL@@ Police Chief @@RANDOMNAME@@. "However, I agree that we should act before overcrowding wrecks our big houses. Corrections officers are highly suited to determine which inmates are worth releasing prior to their punishments, given that they work with those misfits every day. Leave it to them to decide who is set free on conditional release."
[effect] - prison panels release puppy-eyed mass murderers on their own recognizance