Sanders' Criminal Justice Plan Aims To Cut Prison Population

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[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.

[LouAvul]

The entire democratic party has been hijacked by rabid, old school, hardcore marxists who intend to destroy the United States just as they're doing in England, France, Germany....

I think that after one or two more generations of Americans pass off this mortal coil, I think that they might succeed. With every new generation of brainwashed public school nazis, America fades more into the background.

[BobL]

I still have contingency plans to permanently leave the country, rather than fight to the death in CW2. I hope to not have to use them, but if this guy’s plans start taking hold, I may have to read FR in the middle of the night there.

[sparklite2]

“It’s racist in disproportionately affecting the African American and Latino communities

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It’s also sexist. There are many more men in prison than women, so obviously courts are imprisoning by sex. We need to make felons of more women to achieve balance.

The fact that men commit more crime than women should not stand in the way of equality.

[sparklite2]

How many people do you have to kill
to be a murderer? It’s more than two,
as OJ has shown.

[dfwgator]

Richard Pryor thought the same thing, until he actually visited the Penitentiary....then he said, “Thank God We Got Penitentiaries.”

[LouAvul]

I remember that routine. It was very funny. About like Chris Rock talking about an appropriate response if you ever find yourself on any street named after Martin Luther King.

[dfwgator]

“How do you do ‘Triple Life’? That means if he dies and comes back, he got to go back to Penitentiary..........’F Kindergarten, you know what you did the last time you was here!’”

[GailA]

Want to lower the Prison Population, start executing them faster we have Thousands on Death Rows across the USA.

TN just got 1 Thursday, child Rapist, double killer.
Got 3 last year. Still have over 60 stitting on TN Death Row. 1 goes to Fed level now his state appeals are done. 1990 Raped, strangled, drowned a 8 yr old to death, 2 jury trials, DNA proof. What more do you need to prove he commited the crime oh, his confession he made should help. And the fact he led Police to site he dumped her tiny body.