Jobs not Jails, Sanders Says in South Carolina. Cornel West introduces Bernie (video)

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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday brought his campaign for the White House to three stops in South Carolina.

The day began at Benedict College here in the state capital where he was introduced by Dr. Cornel West to a crowd of about 1,000 students and others at the historic black college.

Calling Sanders “a brother of honor, of decency of integrity,” the leading American academic, author and activist urged the crowd to “get in on the movement” and join Sanders’ call for a “political revolution” in the United States.

“We’re going to turn this country around,” West declared.

In Sanders’ remarks, he told the students, college faculty and others that America must make education a priority. Instead, he said, the United States spends more money (about $50 billion annually) putting more people behind bars than are incarcerated in any other country in the world.

“We should not have more people in jail than any other country. We should have the best educated population in the world,” Sanders said. “It makes a lot more sense to invest in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.”

Sanders has proposed tuition-free public colleges and universities funded by a transaction tax on Wall Street speculators and hedge funds, he told the audience in the college gymnasium.

Sanders also called for the elimination of private prisons in the United States. He plans next week to introduce legislation in the Senate to put the incarceration industry out of business.

Saturday’s scheduled stops also included visits to the Florence Civic Center in Florence and Winthrop University in Rock Hill ahead of a Sunday rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Monday appearances in Virginia.

Sanders’ southern swing comes as he has taken leads in three recent surveys of New Hampshire primary voters and posted a narrow lead in the most recent poll of Iowa caucus goers. Nationally, a new poll by Reuters released on Friday showed Sanders narrowing the gap among all Democrats.

Watch the Video of Dr. Cornel West’s Introduction here:

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday brought his campaign for the White House to three stops in South Carolina.

The day began at Benedict College here in the state capital where he was introduced by Dr. Cornel West to a crowd of about 1,000 students and others at the historic black college.

Calling Sanders “a brother of honor, of decency of integrity,” the leading American academic, author and activist urged the crowd to “get in on the movement” and join Sanders’ call for a “political revolution” in the United States.

“We’re going to turn this country around,” West declared.

In Sanders’ remarks, he told the students, college faculty and others that America must make education a priority. Instead, he said, the United States spends more money (about $50 billion annually) putting more people behind bars than are incarcerated in any other country in the world.

“We should not have more people in jail than any other country. We should have the best educated population in the world,” Sanders said. “It makes a lot more sense to invest in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.”

Sanders has proposed tuition-free public colleges and universities funded by a transaction tax on Wall Street speculators and hedge funds, he told the audience in the college gymnasium.

Sanders also called for the elimination of private prisons in the United States. He plans next week to introduce legislation in the Senate to put the incarceration industry out of business.

Saturday’s scheduled stops also included visits to the Florence Civic Center in Florence and Winthrop University in Rock Hill ahead of a Sunday rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Monday appearances in Virginia.

Sanders’ southern swing comes as he has taken leads in three recent surveys of New Hampshire primary voters and posted a narrow lead in the most recent poll of Iowa caucus goers. Nationally, a new poll by Reuters released on Friday showed Sanders narrowing the gap among all Democrats.

Watch the Video of Dr. Cornel West’s Introduction here: