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Rolling Back Soviet-like Incarceration Levels
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:56 am
by MSimon
....to talk to prisoners one-on-one and to the corrections officers, you get a different kind of story. You begin to see the collateral damage of imprisoning people. The greatest sociological predictor of whether someone’s going to wind up in prison isn’t their color or their income, it’s whether their father or mother is in prison. The consequences are just devastating....
How the Religious Right Might Come Around on Prison Reform
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Distrust anyone in whom the desire to punish is powerful" Friedrich Nietzsche
Re: Rolling Back Soviet-like Incarceration Levels
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:58 am
by MSimon
Depenalizing American society is going to take changes in policing, in sentencing, in parole and reentry, and in leaching out the lust for state punishment that has come to saturate so much social policy.
Re: Rolling Back Soviet-like Incarceration Levels
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 7:02 am
by MSimon
There are all kinds of persecutions going on in America - gays - less so lately. Drug users - about as strong as ever.
Why aren't Evangelicals standing against these political persecutions?
Why is the doctrine of punishment predominant over the doctrine of healing?
Re: Rolling Back Soviet-like Incarceration Levels
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 7:28 am
by choff
Gender plays the biggest roll in determining who the police will stop, arrest, charge, try, convict, incarcerate, and parole. At every stop in the process, women get a discount, and when you eliminate the discount, they commit exactly as much crime as men do.