Posted on 08/18/2019 7:11:27 AM PDT by LouAvul
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is proposing a criminal justice overhaul that aims to cut the nation's prison population in half, end mandatory minimum sentencing, ban private prisons and legalize marijuana. He says the current system does not fairly treat people of color, addicts or the mentally ill.
"We have a system that imprisons and destroys the lives of millions of people," Sanders told The Associated Press before the planned released of his proposal Sunday. "It's racist in disproportionately affecting the African American and Latino communities, and it's a system that needs fundamental change."
Sanders was promoting the plan during a weekend of campaigning in South Carolina, where the majority of the Democratic electorate is African American. The Vermont senator, who won the support of some younger black Democrats during the 2016 primary, has stepped up his references to racial disparities, particularly during stops in the South and urban areas.
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Let them all out while disarming the citizens so they have easy prey.
More free everything!!!! Vote Democrat!!
(White people need not apply.)
And we have criminals who destroy the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
I know which side I'm on.
And how racist of Sanders to pander to blacks by implying they are the majority of criminals. Truth is no defense in this case.
His idea of a “criminal justice system” is to turn millions of criminals loose on the American people.
He’ either crazy or evil. Maybe both.
Bernie is a well-rounded dunce.
Bernie is mentally ill.
Bernie is true mental case. He would be the first to be “eaten alive” if all the prison doors were to be opened.
He’s wrong about everything.
Except banning private prisons.
I don’t think private prisons should be allowed because there should never be a profit motive involved in restricting a person’s liberty.
But other than that, the idiot’s ideas are dumb and dangerous.
The 2020 Democrats candidates are literally dangerous to the health and life of Americans.
Wanna get murdered? Vote Democrat.
So he killed 9 people. It was his first violent crime. He deserves another chance to prove himself. /sarc
It is the criminals who make it into the criminal justice system who are the problem.
Why does the Left and commies like Sanders, think the problem always lies with the system rather than with the people who actually commit the crimes themselves?
Evil Bernie just wants them out so they can Terrorize people he hates ,LOL
Would locking up a bunch of powerful, rich white folks be a step towards establishing racial and economic equity in incarceration, Bernie? I think you know some of the folks I’m talking about.
Bernie needs the room to house political prisoners. Socialism cannot exist in a free society.
Misleading headline. Under communism, prisons are not so much emptied as the retaining walls are pushed out to the border of the whole country and in utilitarian state graciousness, YOU ARE ALLOWED IN. I love this man...like Venezuela..1/3 hot meal and a cot for all! Your universal income right there baby! Party like there is no tomorrow...and no party.
They did that in California. And then changed the law to make anything less than $950 unprosecutable. It’s all turned out so well. Crime exploded. It’s now ‘welcome to Thunderdome’.
Early release is already working out so well. /s
Roy Bean had plan to cut the prison population, a tried and true plan that worked!
Jeffery Epstein wishes...
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