"Prison Profiteers Are Neo-Slaveholders and Solitary Is Their Weapon of Choice"
-CJI (see 2nd link-News)
News item: Columbia University has ex-cons as faculty in their Criminal Justice Initiative-headed by ex-Weather Undergrounder Kathy Boudin
What next?
Columbia Honorary Degree
Columbia hasn't hired Charles Manson. Cathy Boudin has the requisite degrees for the job, and she's served her time and been released. What's the problem?
ReplyDeleteThe problem, Siarlys< is if you look at the SJI pages (I linked them), you see that they are teaching our kids that prisons are some kind of evil and the prisoners must be let go. Prisons are not slave owners.
ReplyDelete"New York City has been in the center of the crisis of mass incarceration, in part due to its concentration of communities of people of color".
ReplyDeleteI see this old chestnut is back again. Since people of color are disproportionately represented in our prison population, the system is necessarily racist/discriminatory, right??
Not so fast. Two articles of faith among Dems/libs are a) that "poverty causes crime" and b) that "minorities live in poverty disproportionately", right?? These are most probably true, and if so, they explain the disproportionality.
If a) and b) then c) follows, which is that people of color must necessarily then be disproportionately involved in criminal behavior.
And if c), then d) becomes that if law enforcement, prosecutors, and the courts are merely doing even an adequate/acceptable job, people of color will necessarily be investigated, arrested, tried, convicted, incarcerated, and yes, even executed in a manner disproportionate to their representation in the general population.
No rocket science to it, and no racism/discrimination to it either, as long as a) and b) are true. Solve the poverty problem and you prevent a lot of, but not all, crime. Solving poverty does NOT mean keeping people such that at any given time, for example, three generations of unwed welfare mothers continue to live in the same dilapidated projects, churning out illegitimate children, many/most of whom have no real opportunity to succeed in our society.
Nor does it mean keeping them on the dole with various entitlement programs which might provide for their basics but which also stifles their initiative and ambition (if they have any left after all this time) and furnishes no work incentive. The libs/Dems are wrong on this one, but at least if guarantees them some votes and victories in some areas.