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US hardline rightwingers lead prison reform

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  • #2
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,498 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Yup, it's finally dawned on the folk in the US that they can't afford to lock so many people up for so long. California is practically bankrupt with lots of petty criminals locked up for life under the 'three strikes and you're out' rule.

    There was a time when anyone perceived as soft on crime would have that fact relentlessly thrown in their face at election time as happened Gov. Michael Dukakis when he ran against then VP George HW Bush for the US Presidency at the end of Reagan's two terms in 1988. A black career criminal called Willie Horton had been released under the Massachusetts parole program, he went on to murder someone while out on parole and Bush exploited this again and again in TV ads during the election.


  • #3
    krd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭krd


    It's funny.

    The land of the free.

    The US has about a thousand times more prisoners per capita than communist China.

    The republicans aren't getting all touchy feely. They just realise they can't afford to lock up all the people they dislike and are afraid of any more.

    I read the article. Apparently, if you can be all smiley face and "positive" they won't send you to jail. You have to just stop being angry and accept the role god gave you in life.

    Probation for ten fcuking years?

    "Keep mopin' that floor boy, with a smile on your face, and we won't send you back to jail. "


  • #4
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,735 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    America already spends a great deal on prisons on reforms. It has a superior system to many comparable States. For instance, Jonathon Simon , a UC Berkley expert, contrast the US system with the Russia penal system which consists of little rehabilitation, harsh remote prisons and a high mortality rate.


  • #5
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,498 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Manach wrote: »
    America already spends a great deal on prisons on reforms. It has a superior system to many comparable States. For instance, Jonathon Simon , a UC Berkley expert, contrast the US system with the Russia penal system which consists of little rehabilitation, harsh remote prisons and a high mortality rate.

    Russia is not a 'comparable' state, it is a brutal society where there is rampant cronyism, mass corruption and press censorship and judges do the bidding of their political masters so it's no surprise that their prisons have such a reputation.

    Any prison in the US is probably like the Four Seasons compared to the Russian system. I can't see the point in making the comparison.


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