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Bonobo

(29,257 posts) Sun Dec 29, 2013, 11:19 PM Dec 2013

Incarceration is not an equal opportunity punishment

http://www.prisonpolicy.org/articles/notequal.html

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Incarceration is not an equal opportunity punishment (Original Post) Bonobo Dec 2013 OP

We don't have a justice system, we have a punishment system. nt ZombieHorde Dec 2013 #1

There is a strong punisher impulse in this country. Comrade Grumpy Dec 2013 #2

ZombieHorde

(29,047 posts)

1. We don't have a justice system, we have a punishment system. nt

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Mon Dec 30, 2013, 01:43 AM

Dec 2013

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

2. There is a strong punisher impulse in this country.

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Mon Dec 30, 2013, 01:50 AM

Dec 2013

Especially if you're the wrong color.

It would be interesting to see the class correlation as well.

Women are indeed incarcerated at much lower rates than men in the US, but their rate of imprisonment has been increasing in the past few decades, thanks largely to the war on drugs.

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