2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe damage that privatized prisons have done
I view Hillary's very recent change in her position towards prisons for profit as disturbing.
Only after very much pressure from human rights groups has she came out against them last October.
This to me is akin to shutting the barn door after the horses are out. In other words, while the damage was being done she was fine with her association to this industry's money.
Incarceration affects people of color at far greater rates than others.
I cannot for the life of me figure out why she gets more of a percentage of their vote than Sanders does in the south.
Can someone answer this?
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Because John Lewis says so, and Bill played a saxophone ... go figure.
monicaangela
(1,508 posts)and for me it is really troubling. I can't believe we have voters who approve of what she has said and done as recently as five months ago, but still continue to vote for her...are they low information voters, or do they just not care what has been happening to their fellow man? It's interesting indeed.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)...you'll be accused of being racist.
I know. I have been for just asking this.
monicaangela
(1,508 posts)that would be too funny.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Todays_Illusion
(1,209 posts)deliberate policy to lock up AAs. There is plenty of evidence and I believe every family affected by these very deliberate policies should be paid money for the damage done to the incarcerated and their surviving families.
It has been policy since Nixon ran on the promise to do just that, lock up all those hippies and African Americans. The stopped locking up the hippies when they needed the parent's votes.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)Just like mercs for our army or a for profit medical system.
People's lives are supposed to be worth more than money.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)And which candidate is closely allied with Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who supports putting pot smokers in prison.