Attorney General Jeff Sessions claims crime has gone up in some U.S. cities because the Obama administration was too lenient in sentencing offenders. But the facts don’t back him up, according to Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, in Washington. “It’s discouraging that, in the 21st century, we’re making policy decisions based on sound bites and gut instincts rather than evidence,” said Mauer. “There is no lack of evidence to show that mass incarceration has been counter-productive to public safety and devastating for low-income communities of color.”
With no well-financed publicity department and no links to the machinery of big party politics, movements like PPEHRC can sometimes seem lost in plain sight.
The US puppets that run Haiti have squandered an historic opportunity for economic and social development.
Prisoners’ supporters and loved ones demanded release of half the population and no transfers between prisons or to ICE.
They try to kriminalize the righteous rage of the people. “This slaughtering has a historical context and foundation.”
Has Covid-19 Initiated the Final, Fatal Crisis of Capitalism?
