Today the US is home to 5% of the world’s population but a quarter of the world’s prisoners. It also has the highest rate of youth imprisonment and on any given day there are more than 70,000 youths in detention. And the biggest winners of this mass incarceration? The for-profit prison companies whose business models essentially depend on locking more and more people up.
PART of the problem is …. us (dumbfuk citizens, specifically).
A couple days ago there was a post about those three murdering copfuks who actually went on trial …. two were acquitted, one case was flat out dismissed. WTF is wrong with these people?? This is the same court system who will send a man to prison for twenty years for stealing a candy bar, or some trivial under $100 bullshit (actually happened .. too lazy to look it up).
A while back I got a Jury Summons. Someone said I should go for the purpose of Jury Nullification …. that that’s a way we citizens can tell the State to fuck off. Doesn’t quite work that way … see video below. Also, I said we are “part” of the problem. What I meant was that only 5% of the accused actually go to trial … the rest are fucked via Plea Bargains.
Bottom Line: If the State wants your sorry ass in prison, they will likely find a way …. in this Land Of The Free. pfffft
I must beat the dead horse.
What charges brought these 25% of World Prisoners, imprisonment.
By far, drugs have brought them in.
Time to reconsider the biggest policy failure in American, possibly World history.
Your ambivalence is creating a monster that will feed on your children.
Careful, Otto. You’ll put SSS’s panties in a knot writing about ending the drug war.
You see, after 40 years of total, utter epic failure, the drug warriors keep telling themselves that victory is right around the corner; that the next drug lord put in the slammer will be the telling blow.
Once the war is won, we won’t need SWAT teams performing 80,000 raids per year on pot smokers. Police departments will de-militarize and become a bunch of Barney Fifes. Warrantless searches will be a thing of the past.
Yes sir, that victory over plants will usher in a veritable nirvana. You just wait and see. Success is right around the corner….
bb,
You must be a troll. No one could be that stupid.
My plan is simple: stop criminalizing what people put into their own bodies. If my neighbor wants to smoke a joint or snort a line of coke, why is that my problem? Why is it your problem? Do you like paying through the nose to pay wardens, prison guards, bailiffs, lawyers and police? Do you enjoy paying $50,000 to house every prisoner, when most are there for mere possession?
To spend tens of billions ramping up the criminal justice system over this stuff is just silly. Kind of like you, bb.
Go troll somewhere else. You’re annoying.
Steve- I am sure we can win this War on Drugs with a “Surge”.
Surge= More Cops, More Raids, More Disinformation, More Prisons, More Time in Prison, More Surveillance, More Arrests.
Clearly we have not done enough to win this war, the Surge should do it, if not, bigger Surge.