Posted on 11/03/2022 12:57:14 PM PDT by FactReal
Wisconsin Democrat Senate candidate Mandela Barnes has a long history of working hard — not to keep you safe — but pushing to release half of the state’s prison population! He’ll do that for the whole country if he gets to the U.S. Senate.
In 2018, Barnes said, “Reducing prison populations is now SEXY.”
If you want more crime in your city, vote for Mandela Barnes.
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– Barnes in 2018: “We can cut our [prison] population in HALF. We can make our communities safer.”
– Barnes in 2018: ”Absolutely” we can cut our inmate population by one HALF.”
– Barnes in 2018: “Reducing prison populations is now sexy.”
– Barnes in 2019: “Cool, let’s cut our prison population in half.”
– Barnes in 2020: “Whether there’s COVID-19 or not COVID-19, we have a responsibility to reduce our prison population.”
– Barnes in 2020: “There are fewer people behind bars right now…I wish we could accelerate this…I’m constantly pushing on the reduction of spending on corrections.”
- Barnes in 2021: “In 2011, our ’11×15′ campaign was to reduce Wisconsin’s prison population by 11,000 inmates by 2015.”
- Barnes in 2021: ”We are just getting started to achieve true criminal justice reform.” i.e., releasing criminals from prison.
- Barnes in 2022 is proud of having released HALF of Wisconsin’s inmates:
REPORT ...Mandela Barnes...supported cutting prison population in half:
[Under Evers/Barnes admin.], Wisconsin’s prison population has been reduced by about 15%. In 2019, the population was 23,777, compared to 20,123 today...The vast majority of those currently incarcerated — 68% — are classified as “violent” offenders, meaning it would be impossible to cut the population in “half” without releasing at least some of those violent offenders.
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Half of their jail birds? That’s a lot of democrats.
/sarc
Let's hope that the majority of American people repudiate these misguided and demented politicians.
“We can cut our [prison] population in HALF. We can make our communities safer.”
actually said in the same breath...
Imagine a criminal justice system where penitentiaries didn’t even exist, but where a person paid for his crimes rather than having society pay to keep him incarcerated.
One such nation existed. If you stole someone’s property, say a sheep, and were caught with the animal in your possession, you repaid the victim with two sheep, but you didn’t go to a penitentiary. The victim also got a financial settlement, satisfying the desire for victim restitution in our time.
If you sold the stolen sheep, thereby being more involved in the crime, you paid the victim four sheep.
If you committed a capital crime, (murder, rape, kidnapping, etc.) you paid with your life, but you didn’t go to a penitentiary. Such facilities didn’t exist in this nation. They were not needed.
Such a system would completely do away with our newest growth industry, penitentiaries, and restore the victim of crime financially.
I’m not going to tell you where I got the idea for this system, but it’s from a reliable source. Of course, it will never happen here because a powerful lobby has grown up around the prison system that will fight hard to protect the status quo. Correction officers have formed powerful labor unions, and their financial contributions to our politicians will easily outweigh the will of the people.
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