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MOHIT GOURISARIA: JUSTICE IN THE USA IS GETTING FUCKED PART I

  • Writer: MAXX WOLF
    MAXX WOLF
  • May 10
  • 3 min read

Updated: Jun 23

JUSTICE IN THE USA IS GETTING FUCKED

The Machine


Mohit Gourisaria knows that a government without mercy in its prosecutions does not serve justice. It operates with cold precision, brutal efficiency, and a stunning disregard for human life. In this machine, fairness is optional.


The goal is simple: convict, destroy, repeat.


This is not justice. It is bloodsport with paperwork. No mercy. No empathy. Mitigating factors are ignored. Context is dismissed. Humanity is treated like an inconvenience.

What remains is a system that punishes by design, not by necessity.


Justice in the USA is getting fucked.


The U.S. government does not pursue truth. It pursues victory. Prosecutors are trained to win, not to heal, not to understand, not to repair. Even low-level cases can be treated like acts of war. No second chances. No meaningful mercy. No real review. Just raw punishment dressed up as public safety.


Justice has become a conviction assembly line.


Over 1.9 million people sit inside America’s prisons, jails, detention centers, and other cages. The broader mass-incarceration system costs at least $182 billion a year when the full machinery is counted. And what does the public get in return? Warehouses of human beings: unrehabilitated, dehumanized, discarded.


America has less than 5% of the world’s population, yet it built one of the largest cage machines on earth. For years, the United States has held a wildly disproportionate share of the world’s prisoners — often cited around one-quarter of the global prison population. That is not freedom. That is branding with handcuffs.


This is not correction.


It is a punishment economy.


It depends on keeping cages full, cases moving, pleas signed, families terrified, and defendants broken before anyone has to explain what the truth actually was.


In court, truth is often secondary. Plea bargains rule. Coercion wears a suit and tie. Informants — pressured, frightened, incentivized, and desperate — trade survival for testimony. Families become leverage. Justice gets negotiated in back rooms at a discount.


Mandatory minimums erase human nuance.


Judges too often become rubber stamps. Prosecutors gain the power to decide the charge, shape the threat, control the offer, and effectively dictate the punishment. Nonviolent offenses can bring life-altering consequences. Rehabilitation is treated like a joke. Mercy is treated like weakness.


This is not law enforcement.


It is institutional revenge.


And the targets are predictable: the poor, the voiceless, the unprotected.


No money? You’re prey.


No power? You’re processed.


No mercy? You’re fucked.


The result is a nation that criminalizes poverty, rewards institutional cruelty, and punishes truth-tellers for refusing to play dead. A system that does not reform itself because reform threatens the business model.


It feeds on its failures.


And yet, with a straight face, they still dare call it justice.



Editor’s Note:

This article is personal narrative, satire, protest art, and editorial commentary. It uses profanity, exaggeration, symbolic language, dark humor, and dramatized characterization for narrative effect.

References to federal prosecutions, plea bargaining, mandatory minimums, informants, cooperators, sentencing pressure, prosecutorial conduct, judicial discretion, or alleged abuses of power are presented as commentary, opinion, political criticism, and allegations based on the author’s perspective, not as formal legal findings or court adjudications.

The factual reference to the federal guilty-plea rate is based on publicly reported U.S. Sentencing Commission data for fiscal year 2023. The broader argument is editorial commentary on the American criminal justice system.

This content does not publish private personal information and does not encourage anyone to contact, threaten, harass, harm, or target any person mentioned.








 
 
 

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