No, I don't want Hunter Biden to be in jail. My life is not improved either way if he's pardoned or not pardoned. Stop centering him.
I'm centering the 2 million+ people unfairly in prison and jail under racistly applied and excessively harsh drug and weapons sentencing laws put in place by Biden.
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There are 8.2 billion people on planet earth. Some other countries are supposedly draconian, and police states.
So tell me why 1 in every 5 prisoners on planet earth, is locked up in the US?
And why most US prisoners are locked up pre-trial?
Mainly for low level drug charges, pushed for by Biden?
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@mekkaokereke how much of a role do for-profit prisons play in this?
Huge role.
In some states, private prisons have a "required occupancy quota." If the prison is below that occupancy, then the state has to pay the prison corporation a penalty per empty cot.
And these corporations lobby against sentencing reform and decriminalization.
https://eji.org/news/private-prison-quotas-drive-mass-incarceration/
They lobby against it, in part because the most profitable prisoner, is not a career criminal. It's a hard working, honest, non-criminal Black person with a family that loves them.
@mekkaokereke I didn't even know that bit about required occupancy. That sounds... like a very macabre and ruthless form of rent-seeking. And there would be little incentive to actually tackle causes of crime and reform sentencing unless those kinds of companies and prisons get abolished first.