RE: (300 cases) The ardent BLM supporter indicated that every week since, judges have dismissed case hearings, meaning accused criminals are being cut loose.
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The Squad wanted this nationwide.
AOC (October 17, 2019)—
1)I know the term “prison abolition” is breaking some people’s brains. The right is already freaking out.
Yet the US incarcerates more than anywhere in the world.
We have more than enough room to close many of our prisons and explore just alternatives to incarceration.
2)Mass incarceration is our American reality. It is a system whose logic evolved from the same lineage as Jim Crow, American apartheid, & slavery.
To end it, we have to change.
That means we need to have a real conversation about decarceration & prison abolition in this country.
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AOC website....
Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez wants to invest in communities, rather than throwing them away. She has introduced and supported legislation that would give formerly incarcerated individuals the right to vote, equitable career opportunities, and access to all federal resources like housing vouchers and food benefits. She has also called for the decarceration of Rikers.
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No human being is safe on Rikers Island,’ AOC says in exclusive NY1 interview
March 24, 2022
Ocasio-Cortez, a fierce advocate for shuttering Rikers Island, expands on her stance regarding Rikers in this wide-ranging interview....
The formerly incarcerated should not have their rights taken away.
We incarcerate
MANY countries just execute