Sen. Tom Cotton said the US has an 'under incarceration problem'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sen. Tom Cotton said Friday that the country that incarcerates more people per capita than any other has an "under incarceration problem."

Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, tweeted a clip of himself speaking on Fox News about the increase in crime currently happening in some US cities.

"This is all a result of naive and foolish policies that are letting prisoners out of jail early sometimes because of false claims that we have an over incarceration problem in this country or exaggerated fears about the coronavirus," Cotton said.

He tweeted along with the video: "We're facing a historic crime wave and Democrats are advocating for violent, repeat felons to be let out of jail early."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-tom-cotton-said-us-070039396.html

[dalton99a]

1. Cotton should volunteer himself.

Yes, there is an under incarceration problem for traitors and insurrectionists

[lsewpershad]

8. Indeed

Once we imprison all the republicons for their wrong doing the problem will be solved.

[joetheman]

28. The problem will be fixed as soon as ALL the MAGAs who belong in jail are put there. nt

[Claire Oh Nette]

2. Under Incarceration code for Black people are still walking free

By all means, Senator Cotton, let's lock up all the white, suburban pot heads, and coke and meth users, and all the white collar criminals who defraud the the IRS every year, or embezzle from their businesses, charities, and churches. Let's Lock up the real criminals, rather than just poor people.

We incarcerate more people per capita than any other nation. We deliberately over-incarcerate anyone darker than wet sand, and deliberately let off with a warning the pasty criminals among us.

Tom Cotton is truly a Racist's racist.
Phuck this guy.

[yardwork]

3. Racist dog whistle.

[Pinback]

4. Yeah, too many corrupt Republicans walking free. (nt)

[RussBLib]

5. "Democrats are advocating for violent, repeat felons to be let out of jail early"

said Cotton, a hopeless tool.

Prove it, Senator, or STFU.

[totodeinhere]

6. Believe it or not I agree with Tom Cotton.

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We do have un under incarceration problem. Trump and his immediate family are not in prison. GWB is not in prison for his war crimes. Neither is Dick Cheney. So yes we have an under incarceration problem. But the thousands of people of color who are wrongly incarcerated need to be released. So do the many people imprisoned for victimless drug crimes. Our incarceration rate for ordinary people is a disgrace. But lots of people get away with white collar crimes and that needs to stop.

[jmowreader]

11. I was about to say the same thing

So long as all the insurrectionists and most of the Republicans aren’t locked up, we’re under incarcerated.

[world wide wally]

12. Well said

[rurallib]

17. Like the "white color" crimes (instead of "white collar")

No doubt spell check made that correction for you, but it is so appropriate

[totodeinhere]

26. I corrected the typo.

I'm a terrible typist and I usually rely on spell check but when I make a typo and the misspelled word turns out to be another word in the dictionary, that gets me.

[gulliver]

7. End the Drug War

It's the foundation of an obscenely immoral misery production machine. Mass incarceration is only one of its curses.

[Hortensis]

9. For-profit profits down during the pandemic? Such a shame,

though Democrats are getting rid of them where and as soon as we can anyway.

Federally alone, the cruel, greedy bastards still also have slowly dwindling revenue streams from immigrant detention, post-incarcertain transition housing, electronic monitoring, and on and on. To keep them from crashing as they should.

[spanone]

10. fuck off tommy boy

[malaise]

13. Not exceptional enough

apparently

[DFW]

14. He's right

Republican members of the US Congress and many state legislatures, as well as corrupt members of law enforcement are woefully under-represented as inmates in our penal system.

I hereby recommend that Senator Cotton, along with Senators Hawley, McConnell, Scott, Rubio, Ernst, Cruz, Inhofe, Cornyn, Kennedy (LA), Grassley, Paul, et al., and about half (or more) of the Republicans in the House, volunteer to save the government time and money by pleading guilty to crimes committed to the proper US attorneys or State Attorneys General, and get our incarcerated population headed in the direction that Cotton is recommending. Certain members of the media, guilty of incitement of various offenses, some with fatal consequences, should join their pals behind bars. One former occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, DC would also qualify, although he has since moved his residence elsewhere.

[sarcasmo]

15. This statement from Tom was paid for by the prison industrial complex.

[dawg]

16. We need to find some other way of punishing/rehabilitating non-violent offenders.

It's insane the number of people we incarcerate. It's even more insane that someone claims to believe that it isn't enough.

[dutch777]

18. Right on! We REALLY need rehabilitation...need workers and contributing members of society

And people need to hire these folks when they do get out of prison or they have no choice but to re-offend to make money to survive.
Plus think of all the kids and other family members that suffer without a mom or dad.

[dsc]

19. He is actually correct

we under incarcerate those who pollute the environment, cheat on their taxes, steal their worker's wages, and even those who storm the Capitol and kill cops in the process.

[Thomas Hurt]

20. the money the private prison industry gave him says so...

[Crunchy Frog]

21. We can fix that by locking him up.

[Wounded Bear]

22. Cranking up the RW bullshit machine, I see...

[GoCubsGo]

23. I agree.

The fact that he and other Republican criminals are still walking free, and not incarcerated for their crimes is proof of that.

[Brother Mythos]

24. In that case, I suggest we solve the senator's problem by putting criminal Republican ...

politicians and their enablers in jail ASAP.

[Sneederbunk]

25. Correct. He is out walking around.

[rickyhall]

27. No, we have dumbass senator problem.

[niyad]

29. traitor tom cottonmouth is at it again?