Nader goes off on Obama, says he's acting white

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blackascoal said:
No, my contention is that many who are locked up are locked away on federal charges .. and that the federal Justice Department sets the standards and tone for much of what happens on the state and local levels.

Look no further than the Clinton Adminstration and what they brought to the courts in the way of mandatory sentencing and their "crackdown" on drug users .. make that minority drug users.
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A cursory search shows you have a point. I'll look further later, trying to do lesson plans for next year:

http://www.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/prisons/pris.fedstat
 
Kathianne said:
A cursory search shows you have a point. I'll look further later, trying to do lesson plans for next year:

http://www.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/prisons/pris.fedstat
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Yes ma'am, I do have a point and I can provide you with more evidence, studies, and documentation that you'll ever have time to read. I've been writing about the injustice for years.

From the social perspective, how do you feel about America being the greatest prison nation on the planet? WE have nearly as many prisomers as China and India put together .. who have almost 9 times our population.

As a teacher, how do you feel about this ...

February 29, 2008

5 States Spend More on Prisons Than on Higher Education, Report Says
While one of its findings made more headlines — that about one out of every 100 U.S. adults is behind bars — a recently released report from the Pew Center on the States also shows that increases in states’ corrections budgets are far surpassing those for higher education.

From 1987 to 2007, the amount that states spent on corrections increased 127 percent, more than six times the 21-percent increase that states directed to higher education over the same period, according to the report.

The report also showed that for the first time, five states spend more on corrections than they do on higher education. Those states are Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan, Oregon, and Vermont. However, the average state spends about 65 percent more on higher education than on corrections.

http://chronicle.com/news/article/4...-prisons-than-on-higher-education-report-says

California is about to join that distinguished group.

As an American, how do you feel knowing that we incacerate more people by every measure than Iran, North Korea, China, Cuba, .. name some other nations we've been told are "evil" .. or yeah, IRaq, even before Saddam was lynched.

Oh yeah .. did I mention that most US prisoners are locked up for non-violent crimes?
http://www.nolanchart.com/article3237.html

So what gain could there possibly be behind locking away so many US citizens for non-violent crimes, you might ask ..

The answer .. slavery is still legal in America and it's alive and well in US prisons. It's gotten solucrative that some US companies are shutting down operations, laying off workers, then reopening inside a US prison where they pay the slave/prisoners 25 cents and hour. No overtime, benfits, sick days, or unions. 25 cents an hour.

Got something from Victoria's Secret lately? .. If so, it was probably made in a prison in South Carolina.

Don't believe me?

http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20041205.htm

Just one of thousands, mountains of articles, documentation, and facts.

Book an overseas flight on TWA lately .. you were probably talking to a US prisoner.

Hell, republicans even proposed using this slave labor as a way to "keep US jobs home."
 
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