Um, my old conspiracy-watching self is getting the heebie-jeebies with this story. Are they planning on making room for #ClimateActivists and #HumanRightsActivists? Especially since standing up for #ClimateJustice and #HumanRights seems to be a crime these days.
Billion-dollar supersize prisons are slated to be built across the U.S. But do they help or hurt public safety?
I don't ever want to hear another word from any politician about how expensive it would be to provide free education to everyone, cancel student debt, provide housing and health care for everyone.
"Other critics have balked at Alabama lawmakers’ willingness to spend $1 billion on a #prison when 1 out of 4 children in the state — one of the poorest in the country — and 17% of adults there struggle with #FoodInsecurity."
@violetmadder In case anyone has forgotten (I havent):
"Under the leadership of Bill Clinton, Democrats wanted to wrest control of crime issues from Republicans, so the two parties began a bidding war to increase penalties for crime, trying to outdo one another. The 1994 crime bill was a key part of the Democratic strategy to show that it can be tougher-on-crime than Republicans." https://www.aclu.org/news/smart-justice/how-1994-crime-bill-fed-mass-incarceration-crisis
We lock people up at 5x the global average. 1/4th of the whole planet's prisoners, in the "land of the free". We keep more people locked up than any other nation on earth-- unless, of course, we count Gaza and the West Bank as prisons. Which would put us, and Israel, as close bosom buddies in mass incarceration.
But people seamlessly accept it as normal. Ordinary. Taken for granted. That right there scares me more than just about anything else.
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