Would the justice system be better without plea bargaining?

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Plea bargains are a workaround and a lesser of two evils solution for the problem of not enough people to properly adjudicate accusations of a crime.

Replacements include hiring and training enough personal and building more courtrooms. This will take a lot of time and money. Where will the money come out of? It will take years to train enough people. During the transition, there are concurrent risks of more crime because of more guilty people let go and more innocent people jailed.

Another replacement is to have a lot fewer convictions. The benefit, fewer innocent people convicted, the price more bad people not even arrested never mind let go, and the ensuing permanent higher crime rates.

When people plea bargain though, do they have give specific details about the crime in the plea bargain?

The Basics of a Plea Bargain

Thanks. But it doesn't say anywhere in that article, if you have admit to any specifics of the crime though or not when plea bargaining.