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The NAACP and the ACLU have filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Philadelphia and the company that handles its advertising at the airport, over the rejection of an airport ad promoting criminal justice reform.
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Looks like a good ad to me.
I’d dispute that 25% figure. How many people in places like China, Russia, Cuba, anywhere in Africa, arab countries, or Latin America have “disappeared” either into some secret prison or simply shot dead and never have been officially listed as incarcerated? In short, the ACLU and NAACP are LYING.
Personally, if the NAACP and ACLU are so effing concerned, they can house the violent, career criminals they want freed in their own damn homes and risk their own damn families.
Sadly, you’d lose that argument.
We have over 1% of the population (that’s over 3 million Americans!) in the judicial system.
Read the statistics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison
We have more people in prison that China even though it has 3 times the population.
Sorry but the US is Jail Happy for any and all offenses.
Wait ’till they make prisoners into involuntary organ donors. Need a heart?
The Chinese haven’t had a problem finding a market. In fact there’s a black market.
I noticed you didn’t bother to address unofficial, indefinite incarceration practiced by countless oppressive regimes across the planet. I guess if there’s no public documentation of your incarceration, you don’t count.
The sheer population of China and it’s wide spread practice of indefinite holding of people without charges is almost guaranteed to exceed the US’s prison population. Or maybe it’s lower than I’d think because they simply quietly kill most of them after holding them for a while…
So if they are dead then they aren’t prisoners any more are they?
An interesting poll would be finding how many Americans approve of punitive rape as punishment for crime. So many express violence filled fantasies involving their favored villain getting introduce to some prison style forced sodomy.
Keyword, fantasies. Acting on those fantasies makes one a true sociopath.
Senator James Webb makes recommendations for reform
Why We Urgently Need this Legislation:
With 5% of the world’s population, our country now houses 25% of the world’s reported prisoners.
The number of incarcerated drug offenders has soared 1200% since 1980.
Four times as many mentally ill people are in prisons than in mental health hospitals.
Approximately 1 million gang members reside in the U.S., many of them foreign-based, and Mexican cartels operate in 230+ communities across the country.
Post-incarceration re-entry programs are haphazard and often nonexistent, undermining public safety and making it extremely difficult for ex-offenders to become full, contributing members of society.
http://webb.senate.gov/issuesandlegislation/criminaljusticeandlawenforcement/Criminal_Justice_Banner.cfm
Contact the office of your own US senators, and ask them to support the justice reform initiative of Senator James Webb of Virginia.
Thanks
In places like China the junkies don’t get medical care and die faster. The pushers um, disappear or get found dead however that doesn’t actually seem to be worth officially noting in the public record. A fair number of people in China don’t officially exist and most of them stop doing so after a while.
F.O.P. supports justice reform too.
http://scribd.com/doc/49101806/FOP306Endorsement
I wonder if these groups are counting Juvie Halls as prisons? I might see their point, if they complaining about all those sent to prison for just holding weed. Not that I encourage it’s use or sales. But it doesn’t seem like the sort of crime that deserves a prison sentence. So if the courts and prisons are being clogged up with drug addicts, and weed peddlers. Then it seems a valid gripe. As long as they haven’t killed anyone. The Jensen Farm owner’s cantaloupes killed 25 people. And yet you know he’ll just get a fine or something. No prison time. Same for Dr. Murry, in court now. A fine, maybe a license revocation, at most.
Isn’t Philly the City of Brotherly love? No public signs not designed to encourage commerce/consumption? No thinking allowed.
Good to see the ACLU in action “trying” to keep us free. Only those recently in chains appear to recognize the outrages. Pass me the jug.
Hmm. Is that the sound of corporations prevented from making political statements?
I wonder what would happen if Ford put a billboard up (instead of just a commercial) that said, “We didn’t take government bailouts.”
In the US you get 5-10 years for non-violent first time drug offense. That means you now have a criminal for life instead of a potential tax payer.
Next trend in the US: elderly prison population sky rocketing.
And if 75% of the world could actually afford prisons and law enforcement, they wouldn’t be such hell-holes.
HUSSEIN Obama must be sooooo proud of his BROTHERS!