It is on the front page because this is happening in the USA every day, every hour. But we usually hear about it only when somebody high-profile enough is hurt by the criminal prosecution machine. But make no mistake of thinking the same machine doesn't hurt people 24/7 - we just don't hear about it often. Maybe if we did, we could get some way to fix it or at least make it less cruel and inhumane. Most of the readers here, I presume, are lucky enough to have very small chance of being pulled into the criminal prosecution machine unless they do something out of the ordinary - like Aaron Swartz did. But it still exists right next to us and we better not forget about it.