Possibly theMost Inteligent Proposal Yet from any Presidential Candidate.

piezoe · Oct 11, 2015

http://marijuanapolitics.com/bernie-sanders-starts-a-petition-to-end-private-prisons/

If there is one place where private , for profit corporations don't belong, this is it! The conflicts of interests created by privatizing prisons was enormous. The public recognition that privatizing our prisons was a huge, and disastrous mistake is long overdue. Though per bed costs came down when prisons first began to be privatized in the 1980's, total cost to tax payers has skyrocketed as a result of the short sighted and horribly illogical decision to privatize prisons.

https://www.nasbo.org/sites/default/files/pdf/State Spending for Corrections.pdf

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/06/private-prisons-profit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison

fhl · Oct 11, 2015

Is Bernie proposing that convicted criminals be given jobs and education instead of prison?

---"Campaigning in South Carolina beside intellectual and civil rights activist Cornel West last week, Sanders stressed investing in “jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.”"

Is Bernie proposing to let blacks go free to get their vote from Hillary?

----"By adding a specific plan to the national conversation on law enforcement, racial bias, and prison reform, the bill may help Sanders make inroads with voting demographics he has struggled to reach as an Independent senator from a small, nearly entirely white state."

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justic...private-prisons-Justice-is-not-for-sale-video

trendlover · Oct 11, 2015

On Thursday, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) of Vt. is set to introduce the “Justice Is Not For Sale” Act on Capitol Hill, which would ban a private prison industry he accuses of creating a “perverse incentive” to keep jails filled.

The bill, co-sponsored by Rep. Raul Manuel Grijalva (D) of Ariz., calls for federal, state, and local governments to ban privately run prisons within three years, to reduce high fees for prisoner services such as phone calls, and to reinstate a federal parole system, which was eliminated as part of ‘tough on crime’ efforts in the 1980s, The Washington Post reports. The bill also seeks to reduce the number of immigrants held in detention centers, many of which are privately-managed, by eliminating the current minimum quota of housing 34,000 people each day.

Calling the private prison industry “disgraceful,” and “morally repugnant,” Sanders’ campaign website says “the measure of success for law enforcement should not be how many people get locked up.”

Reform advocates allege that the industry, dominated by The GEO Group and the Corrections Corporation of America, reduces the motivation to rehabilitate prisoners because companies make a profit by keeping them imprisoned.

Calling to abolish the industry, Sanders says:

We need to end the tragic reality that the United States has more people in jail than any other country on earth, and that the people being incarcerated are disproportionately black and Hispanic. We need to take a hard look at why the rate of recidivism in this country is so high and why we are not developing successful paths back to civil society for those who serve prison time.

gwb-trading · Oct 11, 2015

trendlover said:
On Thursday, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) of Vt. is set to introduce the “Justice Is Not For Sale” Act on Capitol Hill, which would ban a private prison industry he accuses of creating a “perverse incentive” to keep jails filled.

The bill, co-sponsored by Rep. Raul Manuel Grijalva (D) of Ariz., calls for federal, state, and local governments to ban privately run prisons within three years, to reduce high fees for prisoner services such as phone calls, and to reinstate a federal parole system, which was eliminated as part of ‘tough on crime’ efforts in the 1980s, The Washington Post reports. The bill also seeks to reduce the number of immigrants held in detention centers, many of which are privately-managed, by eliminating the current minimum quota of housing 34,000 people each day.

Calling the private prison industry “disgraceful,” and “morally repugnant,” Sanders’ campaign website says “the measure of success for law enforcement should not be how many people get locked up.”

Reform advocates allege that the industry, dominated by The GEO Group and the Corrections Corporation of America, reduces the motivation to rehabilitate prisoners because companies make a profit by keeping them imprisoned.

Calling to abolish the industry, Sanders says:

We need to end the tragic reality that the United States has more people in jail than any other country on earth, and that the people being incarcerated are disproportionately black and Hispanic. We need to take a hard look at why the rate of recidivism in this country is so high and why we are not developing successful paths back to civil society for those who serve prison time.

Sanders may have found an issue that he can build broad support around.

trendlover · Oct 11, 2015

gwb-trading said:
Sanders may have found an issue that he can build broad support around.

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The issue is USA laws is not apply equally. You have Hollywood elite, political elite, to break the law with drug use all of the time. Do you see these people in the jail? Do you see these people incarcerated? No.

gwb-trading · Oct 11, 2015

trendlover said:
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The issue is USA laws is not apply equally. You have Hollywood elite, political elite, to break the law with drug use all of the time. Do you see these people in the jail? Do you see these people incarcerated? No.

Actually quite a few Hollywood actors have been locked up for drug use.

This being said - the U.S. "War on Drugs" has been less than successful. A new approach is needed.

wildchild · Oct 11, 2015

trendlover said:
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The issue is USA laws is not apply equally. You have Hollywood elite, political elite, to break the law with drug use all of the time. Do you see these people in the jail? Do you see these people incarcerated? No.

You have Obama writing books and talking about all the drugs he did. He even admitted to distribution and nothing happened to him.

trendlover · Oct 11, 2015

gwb-trading said:
Actually quite a few Hollywood actors have been locked up for drug use.

This being said - the U.S. "War on Drugs" has been less than successful. A new approach is needed.

Ok please be real. Hollywood and politicians family go free when they break the law for simple marijuana offense. Go to Camden New Jersey or for to any USA urban poor. They are incarcerated for that. They do not have money to pay so they go to jail. That is reality.
Please do not bullshit to me. You have Lindsay Lohan, Willie Nelson, etc, etc. free to live their life with same offense as the poor people who stay in the jail.

trendlover · Oct 11, 2015

wildchild said:
You have Obama writing books and talking about all the drugs he did. He even admitted to distribution and nothing happened to him.

Really he talk about he is young and smoke marijuana. He talk about how he was young like many American young people. My opinion is Obama understand he is have safety from the law because he have a prestige for his academics. But he also understand this is a bias of the law

gwb-trading · Oct 11, 2015

trendlover said:
Ok please be real. Hollywood and politicians family go free when they break the law for simple marijuana offense. Go to Camden New Jersey or for to any USA urban poor. They are incarcerated for that. They do not have money to pay so they go to jail. That is reality.
Please do not bullshit to me. You have Lindsay Lohan, Willie Nelson, etc, etc. free to live their life with same offense as the poor people who stay in the jail.

You can start here.... most of them are drug related.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/20/celebrities-in-jail_n_2917945.html

I am not making the case that wealthy people do not receive better "justice" than poor people. First of all most poor people cannot afford to bail themselves out of jail, and cannot afford good legal representation. Yes, I agree there are obvious differences in justice based on wealth.