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Frankly, most white people have no idea how crooked our criminal justice system has become because the vast majority have not experienced it. Most people assume that if somebody ends up in jail, they must belong there because a "fair and impartial" judge found the accused guilty and poor people are given a competant public defender.
Originally posted by Aim64C
reply to post by zarp3333
Frankly, most white people have no idea how crooked our criminal justice system has become because the vast majority have not experienced it. Most people assume that if somebody ends up in jail, they must belong there because a "fair and impartial" judge found the accused guilty and poor people are given a competant public defender.
Honestly, my experience with many judicial systems is that you have many incompetent citizens being handled by a system full of incompetent officials.
I really don't pity many of the people who end up in prisons for various reasons. There are a few hallmark cases of genuine innocence and system brutality - but there are a number of people who, bluntly, are a waste of organic material involved.
The vast majority caught in those systems will never amount to anything. I don't mean they won't cure cancer - I mean they won't hold down a job, they won't take care of their family, and they will be hard pressed to ever actually live what most consider a halfway legitimate lifestyle.
I will acknowledge there are obstacles in their way that are perpetuated by certain aspects of some systems - but there are plenty of "streets to success" stories that I've seen both personally and from second hand sources. People will always find an excuse.
Originally posted by moonzoo7
The federal agency's civil rights division seeks "meaningful negotiations" in 60 days to end the constitutional violations or else a federal lawsuit would be filed against state, county and local officials in Meridian, according to a Justice Department letter dated Friday to those officials.
It doesn't get more UN-American than this, folks. This is off the hook. I want to know why the Judges aren't taken off the bench and prosecuted along with the county "authorities" who are perpetrating this crime against children.
That is a bad opinion of your bretheren and is a total prejudice outlook to have!
Could these people be such a waste because they are a product of their own environment? Look all i'm saying is I don't know how contributive
or wasteful these people would be if things were different and neither does anyone else!
To think they know what's in the heads and hearts of these people is not only arrogant but ignorant!
Wake up people cause it could be you others look down on!
Originally posted by kosmicjack
This is what happens when you privatize prisons and make them for-profit. There was the case out of PA where the judge was taking kickbacks for sentencing youths to detention facilities and prisons. It's sick.
The things that are tools for helping to make our society safer, healthier, smarter, etc. should not be privatized. We all have a vested interest in them - things like Schools, Hospitals, Prisons, Governmental Services, etc.
When we privatize those sorts of things we relinquish that interest for the benefit of saving a few bucks and our civil society is degraded. We lose the "common denominator" factor that helps keep society organized and strong. It just becomes a free-for-all devoid of ethics in pursuit of the almighty dollar.
Originally posted by HEYJOSE
And what do you know they have a FOR PROFIT prison right in a unincorporated section of Lauderdale county Mississippi!! Ya think that politicians, school officials and judges are getting a kick back? More prisoners means more profit for the CEO corporation. Yah know guys, everywhere I look I see total corruption, I have lost all faith in all of our institutions. Nothing is legit. Everything is a scam to benefit the very, very few at the point of the pyramid and to suck the lifes blood out of everybody else. This can't stand. This system WILL fall and I am so hopefull by PEACEFUL means.
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you voted for them as so did we.