Nearly two decades after Japan introduced a lay judge system to modernize its courts, the nation’s criminal justice system remains firmly chained to outdated, prosecutor-driven “document trials” that fuel its high conviction rate.
https://www.tokyoreporter.com/japan-news/hostage-justice-how-japanese-prosecutors-continue-to-rig-trials-with-forced-written-confessions/
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I’ve been to jail before, and the up to 8 hours a day of interrogation over 20 days is pretty much enough to break anyone. After you have been told you are guilty so many times a day for so long you start to think you really might be guilty even though you are not.
If they can’t get you to break and they don’t have enough to charge you with, they just let you go.
Somehow I feel like they don’t do this with all the child molesters