Accountability for thee but not for me.
wiseoldsnail
wiseoldsnail
I do not understand how anyone is in favor of these sentences, even Republicans. Long sentences for nonviolent drug offenders A) cost a lot of money and B) tend to turn nonviolent offenders into violent offenders, because prison is terrible.
heck yeah! and BHO really showed how cool he was by accepting Luther too.
Woops forgot to post facts from FAMM: http://famm.org/sentencing-101/the-facts/
Mandatory prison sentences for non-violent drug offenders are stupid. Now, I know that some of these inmates are a mix. But I’m saying overall, non-violent drug offenders do not need prison time. Rehabilitation also takes the form of substance abuse treatment, recovery support, access to community resources and…
A Chicago police officer who faces charges of first-degree murder in an off-duty shooting was released on his own…
It would be a supremely idiotic thing to do.
Gangbanger is definitely a racialized codeword, much like “inner city.”
In living color.
Can you imagine? There would be so many (rightful) calls for empathy and a reminder that addiction is a healthcare concern, not criminality. But the sickness of institutional racism continues to be ignored.
This is for real?! Shit.
what do the good, hard-working white folk of natchez get themselves up to on the daily? presumably its a great deal of country clubbing, shopping for fancy sweaters to tie around their necks and renovating public green spaces.
Abso-fucking-lutely. The sad thing is politicians have to be tough on crime and sadists enjoy the inhumane conditions of prison. It’s a non starter politically. If we had more of a social safety net we wouldn’t have one of the highest prison populations in the world but here we are. I mean we punish ppl in poverty in…
Totally agree but our country is about being tough on crime and so called personal responsibility without seeing what has caused this systemic oppression.
The US needs to end it’s ridiculous approach to the war on drugs; incarceration for use or possession is not a helpful strategy in ending drug dependency, and does nothing to stop the production and proliferation of drugs - it only increases the prison population.
I think it’s more about stopping people getting onto drugs in the first place. Lots of people are trauma survivors who need counselling, or have mental health issues that need psychiatric treatment, or have an unrelentingly miserable life due to poverty or discrimination, or some similar source of pain in their life.…
I’m not sure I catch your drift? You mean that money and class shield you? If so, I totally agree.
And please note, it’s never Johnny Sunshine with his eightball of cocaine, or Mrs. Doctors Wife with her little stash of painkillers
A certain sort of person thinks, “It’ll never happen to me, so it’s never happened to anyone.”
It’s not about recouping costs. Prison labor is enormously profitable to many large corporations. They are used for work the companies should be paying for.