carte blanche to do whatever they wish to those incarcerated because no one is going to care anyway but they are wrong because you know who cares? The families of these people we are locking up and treating in some of the worst ways imaginable. Not everyone in prison is there
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because they are violent or has committed some heinous crime. There are men/women that are doing more time than a child molester for a non violent drug offense because someone had to come up with the brilliant idea of mandatory minimums for drug offenses and how is that working
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out so far. The worst pieces of legislation ever passed are mandatory minimums for drug offenses and three strikes law because it has only led to mass incarceration and the overcrowding of the prison system. The 3 strikes law should only apply to violent offenders such as rapists
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child molesters, and people who use a gun when committing their crimes. It shouldn't apply to non violent offenders at all. We wouldn't even have to pass laws like that if they would put the focus back on rehabilitation instead of punishment like the penal system was originally
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set up to be geared towards but once politicians seen the amount of money that can be made off of what amounts to legal slavery, that just fueled them to pass more laws aimed at incarcerating the poor and minorities and if there is no truth in that statement then explain to me
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like I am a 5th grader why is the punishment for crack cocaine higher than powder cocaine? I will tell you why. Because our lawmakers associate crack cocaine with inner city dealers and addicts which you already know means minorities and the poor and they associate powder cocaine
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with your CEO's and business owners which usually means wealthy white men. Our government would wish that most Americans don't have the sense to see these laws they are passing in the criminal justice system, and see who they are targeting for punishment. No matter how you look
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at it,our justice system is built on racist ideology and enough is enough. We are tired of politicians catering to huge corporations, pharmaceutical companies, fossil fuel companies, and the rest of the lobbyist that line the pockets of whatever politician they can buy off to
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pass legislation that will benefit them. I'm sure when I say this that I'm not just speaking for myself, but we the little people, the working class, we are the constituents that our Senators and Congressmen/women should be listening to instead of these multi million dollar
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corporations. Politicians will lie and say whatever it is they know the people want to hear just to get elected and then once they are in office, their need for their constituents no longer exists until the next election. I'm sure when I say that I am sick of the back pedaling
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that our elected officials have been doing and I am sick of our officials once again catering to the wealthy and big businesses. I'm sick of our elected officials doing everything possible to limit easy access to vote for minorities and keeping the working class on or below the
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poverty line while not doing anything to give the working class a livable wage or paid leave, or accessible and affordable child care. They never address the homeless situation because those people are not beneficial to these politicians and when they see that their constituents
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