USA's "Mass Incarceration"

[kpete]

In Ronald Reagan's America, Bias instantly became the poster child for what could happen to anyone who didn't just say no.

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http://www.aclu.org/combating-mass-incarceration-facts-0

THE DAY THE DRUG WAR REALLY STARTED

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At the time, the Senate was controlled by Strom Thurmond and the Republicans. They looked at it and said: "OK, well if the Democrats have a sentence of five years to 20 years, let's up it to 10 years to 40 years. And if the Dems say 20 grams, we’ll make it 5!” Nobody looked at the proper ratios based on how harmful it was. It was completely detached from science. Nobody could say that crack was 100 times more dangerous than powder.

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http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/06/19/len_bias_cocaine_tragedy_still_affecting_us_drug_law

[Deep13]

1. If Eisenhower were here today, he would warn of the prison-industrial complex. nt

[meow mix]

2. k&r

[givemebackmycountry]

3. Kick, Kick, Kick, Kick!

1 in 15 Black males age 18 and older.
In jail.
Locked up.
Ruined.
Forever.

WHEN THE FUCK ARE WE GOING TO WAKE UP?

Know what?

We may be NEXT.

[Maru Kitteh]

4. Wow. I read the OP title as "Miss Incarceration" and thought DAMN, they will have a beauty contest

for anything.

[Wilms]

5. ^

[Bonobo]

6. This statistic alone makes it at least debatable whether the US is totalitarian.

It incarcerates more citizens per capita than any other country in the world --for cultivating and using a plant.

Is that totalitarian? Well, maybe not, but if not it is a close motherfuckin' race for it.

[amborin]

7. kr

[fishwax]

8. kick

:grr:

[felix_numinous]

9. The war on drugs is a war with the most peaceful people

who are using painkilling or pleasurable plants.

The Drug War Profiteers are the actual domestic threat--those within the system who are doing business with drug cartels, arm dealers, flesh peddlers and killers of innocent people overseas.

That this farce is obvious to everyone does not even matter to them anymore--but I hope that this will be their big mistake.

[Romulox]

10. Plenty of Drug Warriors right here on DU, despite of all of this.

:shrug: