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Related: About this forumDEMOCRATS DENOUNCE CLINTON CRIME BILL, Rep. Bobby Rush | Michelle Alexander, Bernie Economic Plan
April 13, 2016. MSNBC's Tamron Hall focused on the background and 22 year legacy of the Clinton Crime Bill of 1994 and the resulting widespread destruction of black lives, families, jobs, neighborhoods and opportunities.
The mainly private, for profit corporate US prison system now has the largest incarcerated population in the world, primarily people of color, blacks and Latinos that comprise 2.2 million individuals, even compared to the much higher general population of 1.3 billion people in authoritarian, communist China, as Sen. Bernie Sanders emphasizes.
Under the many strict new provisions of the 1994 Crime Bill, children as young as 13 years of age were prosecuted and incarcerated. During the MSNBC show, Illinois Congressman Bobby Rush (D) stated his deep apology for voting for the law and spoke forcefully about the need for Hillary Clinton to reverse, not just repudiate the horrendous outcomes in the black community since the Crime Law's passage.
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MICHELLE ALEXANDER, scholar, attorney, activist and author of the recent landmark book, "THE NEW JIM CROW: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness", 2010. *The Center for Law and Justice, Campaign to End the New Jim Crow, website, http://www.cflj.org/programs/new-jim-crow/
- DEMOCRACY NOW! "MICHELLE ALEXANDER: Roots of Today's Mass Incarceration Crisis Date to Slavery, Jim Crow", March, 2015, VIDEO.
Article, The Nation, "WHY HILLARY CLINTON DOESN'T DESERVE BLACK PEOPLES VOTES", By Michelle Alexander, Feb. 10, 2016.http://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes/
- APRIL 1, 2016. MSNBC, "MICHELLE ALEXANDER ON 'WHY HILLARY CLINTON DOESN'T DESERVE THE BLACK VOTE', Chris Hayes Extended Video Interview.
*WATCH VIDEO*, http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/extended-interview-with-michelle-alexander-657082435530
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"BERNIE'S ECONOMIC PLAN Is Much Better For Black America Than Hillary's. Here's Why.*The Ball's In NY's Court",
April 12, 2016, Daily Kos, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/4/12/1514365/-Bernie-s-Economic-Program-is-Much-Better-for-Black-America-than-Hillary-s-Here-s-why *MUST READ.*
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CLINTON SIGNS THE CRIME LAW, Oct. 3, 1994 at Ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House.
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DEMOCRATS DENOUNCE CLINTON CRIME BILL, Rep. Bobby Rush | Michelle Alexander, Bernie Economic Plan (Original Post)
appalachiablue
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'CA$H-FOR-KIDS' Pennsylvania Judge Who Sold Juveniles to Jail, 2003-08 Gets 28 Years', Dec. 30, '15.
appalachiablue
Apr 2016
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djean111
(14,255 posts)1. More inconvenient TRUTH, known by the Hillary campaign as "smears". n/t
appalachiablue
(41,168 posts)2. Some "smears'!! Entire cities, communities, neighborhoods and families
wiped out from systemic racism, criminalization and oppression in Chicago, LA, NY, Baltimore, Atlanta, Ferguson and beyond. NAFTA and WTO China Free Trade contributed heavily also. Corrupt, evil planned devastation of people of color...
appalachiablue
(41,168 posts)3. 'CA$H-FOR-KIDS' Pennsylvania Judge Who Sold Juveniles to Jail, 2003-08 Gets 28 Years', Dec. 30, '15.
A Pennsylvania judge convicted of sending young kids to juvenile detention centers in return for cash has been sentenced to 28 years in prison, reported NPR. Good riddance to this guy.
Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was convicted of taking up to $1 million in bribes from developers of juvenile detention centers in the state of Pennsylvania. The disgraced judge became known for doling out harsh sentences for small, petty crimes in order to receive payment for each kid sent. The scam became known as kids-for-cash.
Between 2003 and 2008, the Pennsylvania state Supreme Court tossed 4,000 convictions issued by Ciavarella because the judge violated the constitutional rights of the kids. These violations included denying the right to legal counsel and the right to intelligently enter a plea. Disgustingly, his attorneys said that all the media attention on Ciavarella was a good enough punishment.
The media attention to this matter has exceeded coverage given to many and almost all capital murders, and despite protestation, he will forever be unjustly branded as the Kids for Cash judge, said the attorneys memo.
https://www.freespeech.org/text/pa-judge-who-sold-juveniles-jails-gets-28-years-prison
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027485476