30 Aug 19
@wolfgang59 saidDo you believe bank robbery should be legal? The punishment is based on the lives you put in danger not the amount you take.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alabama-man-spent-36-years-behind-bars-after-stealing-50-n1048266
The inhumanity of such sentences is reminiscent of 18th Century England.
@wolfgang59 saidIn Ca. 3 strikes law you can/or could have got life for shoplifting a grape from a grocery store. But if you steal millions and have money you get a slap on the wrist. http://www.prisonabolition.org/what-is-the-prison-industrial-complex/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alabama-man-spent-36-years-behind-bars-after-stealing-50-n1048266
The inhumanity of such sentences is reminiscent of 18th Century England.
31 Aug 19
@kquinn909 saidWell, blame yourselves. Republicans see nothing wrong with prostituting themselves and privatizing prisons.
In Ca. 3 strikes law you can/or could have got life for shoplifting a grape from a grocery store. But if you steal millions and have money you get a slap on the wrist. http://www.prisonabolition.org/what-is-the-prison-industrial-complex/
Lobby to get building and running prisons privatized to the lowest bidder -> give out kickbacks to the politicians who made it possible -> build prison -> staff it with neo-nazis and other wanna-be cops, who can't get a job anywhere else (minimum wage, of course) -> get politicians to make laws requiring prison for minor offenses like cannabis possession -> give out kickbacks to the politicians who made it possible -> Profit!