We're Number One … at throwing non-violent offenders into prison for life!
'I write often about human rights abuses abroad. But when we take young, nonviolent offenders — some of them never arrested before — and sentence them to die in prison, it’s time for Americans who care about injustice to gaze in the mirror.'
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Serving Life for This?
In America, nonviolent offenses are getting grotesque punishment.
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Spending money on jails, not education
Which would be bad enough. Then throw in a for-profit prison industry that lobbies for high mandatory penalties and bribes judges to send them prisoners …