Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class, by Dan Canon.
I wanna be a “let’s do it, baby; I know the law” baddie so bad, but in lieu of that era, I read this book. While I didn’t know any of this data about plea bargains specifically, I did know much of what this book reiterates throughout its chapters: America’s justice system is only here to protect rich people, their money, and their property, and if the only way they can sustain that protection is through the creation of crimes as a way to keep the majority divided and distracted enough to not violently rebel against these systems, then that is what they will do (and are doing). I love when people get it, and that is what I loved this book.