So you, a lowly furniture manufacturer, is going to have to power to influence whether or not a person is found guilty in a court of law, or even to determine their sentence?
Corporations pay off politicians all the time to get laws that are favourable to them?
You don’t think that they can’t get politicians to pass laws that get people jailed for crimes that we used to handle differently?
It used to be that people, who were caught drunk sleeping in their cars, would be thrown in the drunk tank and let go in the morning. Now, they can spend months in prison for the same offense.