Jumping in, HELP!!

[siersema]

A criminal justice degree is by far useless, it really depends on what you want to do with the degree though. Whatever you do, pick something, I would not declare liberal arts, as that is a useless major. If you want to attempt to get into law school, then criminal justice or political science would be the way to go.
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Susitna1

Liberal Arts does have less utility on it's own, however if your goal is to quickly get an undergraduate degree knowing full well you plan to move on to a graduate degree than it can work out well for you. Don't be afraid to call an admissions rep (or other faculty) at the schools you'd consider for your law degree and ask them these questions. You may find they're open to any under grad degree with a good GPA, or you may even find that they put the distance ed degrees at the bottom of the pile. The most telling thing would be to simply take a look at the faculty portion of their website and see what degrees/schools the faculty themselves went to.

I would love to work as a mental health advocate once I retire from my current profession. Its very sad to see habitual criminals recieve so much help and watch as the mentally ill are left to fend for themselves.

If you also have a desire to go into the mental health field at some point, maybe you should look into that as your under grad, assuming an under grad in that field (health, psychology, ect) would still qualify for admission into a law program.