2016 Postmortem
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(3,021 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)on [non-violent] crime, for-profit prison, human body warehouse for taxpayer cash bullshit.
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(20,582 posts)How else do you fill up those mega profitable prisons, if people see those being locked up for decades or life as human beings?
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(3,089 posts)get something unsavory on Hillary. That works two ways.
Mr. Speaker, it is my firm belief that clearly, there are some people in our society who are horribly violent, who are deeply sick and sociopathic, and clearly these people must be put behind bars in order to protect society from them. But it is also my view that through the neglect of our Government and through a grossly irrational set of priorities, we are dooming tens of millions of young people to a future of bitterness, misery, hopelessness, drugs, crime, and violence. And Mr. Speaker, all the jails in the world, and we already imprison more people per capita than any other country, and all of the executions in the world, will not make that situation right. We can either educate or electrocute. We can create meaningful jobs, rebuilding our society, or we can build more jails. Mr. Speaker, let us create a society of hope and compassion, not one of hate and vengeance.
And then he voted FOR the bill. Crime Bill 1994