Re:Do We Still Need Prisons?
by rurban on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @10:06AM
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Sure. The US needs to prolong their racist and anti-communist policies, that's why they came with their current prison system afterall.
Nixon improved the system to ensure better voter turnout for his kind (20% less democrates votes and get blacks from the streets),
Clinton improved the system for more cheap slave labour (which worked great for centuries to make the US the greatest country of all) and helped private prison incentives. Mandatory sentencing, war on drugs, reducing accountability on law enforcement and justice.
Actually helping improving the crime rate is not the goal, the goal is entirely business and political.
The crime rate went down due to Roe v. Wade btw, getting poor people access to birth control. That's why the right-wing states are fighting that. It would diminish their advantages of the current imprisonment system.
Nixon improved the system to ensure better voter turnout for his kind (20% less democrates votes and get blacks from the streets), Clinton improved the system for more cheap slave labour (which worked great for centuries to make the US the greatest country of all) and helped private prison incentives. Mandatory sentencing, war on drugs, reducing accountability on law enforcement and justice.
Actually helping improving the crime rate is not the goal, the goal is entirely business and political. The crime rate went down due to Roe v. Wade btw, getting poor people access to birth control. That's why the right-wing states are fighting that. It would diminish their advantages of the current imprisonment system.