So crime should not be color blind? We should look at the race of the criminal to decide if they get punished or not? Surely you are not saying that.
]]>“Nowhere do prisoners have more rights.” The last time you said this, I gave a laundry list of how those rights have been systematically removed in the past 15 years or so. You claimed this was a sign of the system’s effectiveness.
Option 1: Prisoners have more rights than anywhere. There has been no reduction in rights.
Option 2: Prisoners have less rights than some other nations now. It is a sign of the system’s quality.
Could you please supply evidence with whichever option you choose to defend? Obviously, feel free to come up with a third option. I don’t mean to pigeon-hole you. You simply seem to have declared a dichotomy.
In case you are headed for the seemingly plausible, “There has been a reduction in rights, but they still have more than anyone else,” there is a lot of evidence against that assertion (some of it contained in the aforementioned 200-page report).
I also think it’s worth pointing out that the author is not claiming that prison should be “fun”. Nor is any commentator. What is being addressed is the US’s unimaginably high level of incarceration, particularly of people of colour.
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