Jason Flom
speaker
522 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 17 Feb
Jason Flom’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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First of all, everybody watches these shows like Law & Order, and they get this impression that everything works fine.
The authorities are doing their level best.
They're going to get all the bad guys off the street.
The bad guys are really bad.
The good guys are really good.
The scientists are great.
The witnesses are great and courageous and brave, and everything's perfect, more or less, right?
So unfortunately, that is a very, very far stretch from the truth.
Then you add to that the fact that the overwhelming majority of the public are assigned public defenders.
And they relatively quickly come to find out that that person doesn't have time to visit them in jail where they're most likely being held before trial because they're too poor to post bail.
which is unconstitutional, but that's a separate story.
Because judges have to, by virtue of the Constitution, they have to post bail according to your ability to pay it, but that's almost never adhered to.
So...
There you are sitting in jail for a year, two years, more.
And jails in many places, including New York, are worse than prisons.
They're more chaotic.
There's no recreation.
It might not be a law library, a toxic mixture of the most violent people with the innocent people, with people who couldn't pay parking tickets to you name it and everything in between.
And so there's no sort of order at all.
And most people will do anything to get out of that environment.
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