Pic Of The Moment: When It Comes To Prison Population, USA Is #1 -- For GOP, That's Not Good Enough

[EarlG]

Tom Cotton Thinks America Isn’t Locking Enough People Up

John Legend is right: Prisons are disproportionately black. The worst states are some of the whitest.

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[SpankMe]

1. Well, Cotton can volunteer for prison to get the numbers up. Fuck him. n/t

[Moostache]

14. Every time I see a picture of his dull expressionless countenance I think:

Lobotomized Chimp.

[vlyons]

21. His face, to me, says self-righteous Christian A-hole

I'll bet he makes a point of sitting in the front pew at church, so everyone knows he's the pre-eminent holier-than-thou. I'll bet he prays in public too and makes a big show of it. And I'll bet he gives not 1 thin dime to feed the poor or heal the sick. He probably doesn't tithe and cheats big time on his taxes.

[sinkingfeeling]

31. He missed his mark. Should have been 180 miles to

the west....in Oklahoma. He belongs there with the climate deniers, the so holy they want to lock up doctors, and let's impeach Obama crowd.

[Saviolo]

2. The only demographic that is under-incarcerated

is the group of bankers and speculators that drove the economy into the ground.

[panfluteman]

4. That, and corporate funded congressmen like yours truly - Tom Cotton!

[panfluteman]

3. Well, at least we know one place Tom Cotton is getting his money from...

The private for profit prison corporations! Just like he wrote his infamous letter to Iran trying to sabotage the peace talks just because he was getting money from the military industrial complex, which was bucking for war with Iran. Man - this guy is nothing more than a corporate money robot! His heart has been totally yanked out and replaced with a cash register! He has abandoned all reason and all sense of decency just to bow down to the corporate money monster!

[liberalnarb]

5. Oh. My. God.

[Loki]

6. If we incarcerate the entire GOP Party

that would fix the problem as far as I'm concerned.

[niyad]

11. well, that would certainly be a good start.

[Eleanors38]

17. Jesus! You want to start a building program?!

[Marthe48]

7. Cotton needs to wipe his mouth with TP

everytime he talks.

[Eleanors38]

18. Yes. It is the Grand Old Potty.

[Liberalagogo]

8. He's kind of right

He and his group of traitors should be in jail, but they're not.

[Jack Rabbit]

9. How much does Cotten get from the private prison lobby?

[niyad]

10. good gracious, is cotton mouth still speaking?

[hibbing]

12. Our idiotic drug laws

Where pot is in the same schedule as much more dangerous drugs.


Peace

[Moostache]

13. He is right...we DO have an under-incarceration problem.

The following groups are VASTLY under-represented in prisons:
1) Bankers
2) Hedge fund managers
3) Politicians who accept paychecks but refuse to do their jobs - THEFT!!!
4) CEOs that bankrupt corporations and STILL take millions in compensation
5) corrupt racist police murderers
6) ignorant congressmen
7) corrupt judges who profit from the prison-industrial complex
8) lying oil executives who have KNOWN for decades that climate change was real all along

I could go on and on and on with groups of people who should be in jail, but I doubt Cotton and I would agree on just WHO needs to be imprisoned at all!!!

[sinkingfeeling]

15. You forgot tax cheats and scammers, like Trump.

[PatrickforO]

23. There you go! But, really, the current thinking is that

prison is inappropriate for such august personages...

[ck4829]

16. The legislative branch: Out of touch with the people and reality

[Eleanors38]

19. Captain, an ill wind doth blow from 'is aft quarters.

[El Shaman]

20. We're # 1!!!!

I always thought then Southern Crackers loved that spot, but Mr Cotton is still 'butt hurting'.

[PatrickforO]

22. Senator Cotton signed the seditious and likely treasonous congressional letter to Iran.

He should be tried, convicted and duly incarcerated for his treachery against everything this nation stands for. He and the other 47 signatories of the Iran letter should be tried for this, and the horrible people who got us into Iraq, had us become torturers and murdered hundreds of thousands of people should be tried for war crimes. When these slime bags are safely behind bars, THEN we will cease having an 'under incarceration' problem.

And let's not forget dirtbags like Shkreli and the other billionaires who have systematically raped our treasury and screwed the American middle class.

[valerief]

24. Slave labor. Corporate America wants their slave labor and they get it in prisons. nt

[trof]

25. Alabama is broke. In the red. But we "need" $800 million in new prisons.

Bentley, the Luv Guv, says we need 'em.
Oh, and no-bid contracts.
Where's the money coming from?
Nobody knows.

[47of74]

26. Dear Mr. Cotton...

[Hotler]

27. Fuuuucking Awesome!

One thing about the Repugs is that they wear their hearts out on their sleeves for all to see; hate, greed and selfishness. Don't get me started on these fuckers. I have a list of people that should be in prison starting with Poppy Bush and his Administration and from there the list goes down and then breaches off kind of like Danny Casolaro's drawing of the Octopus, and that is just the Washington Hill side of it, the banking and Wall St. list is another.

[mdbl]

28. GOP Pigs just want to make more money

off privatization of prisons. That's their MO when it comes to anything.

[The Wizard]

29. This is the same scumbag

who committed treason. He needs a blindfold and cigarette.

[Xipe Totec]

30. Well, he has a point. 2.3 million in jail and he's still free.

We either need more incarcerations, or more targeted incarcerations.

[Califonz]

32. Never heard of him

I liked it better that way.

[wilt the stilt]

33. hastert will make it

2,300,001

[raging moderate]

34. Maybe, if we weren't so busy persecuting Black people, we could solve more real crimes.

Tom Cotton, you slavers are up to your old tricks again, trying to draft the rest of us to serve as your assistant thugs to round up more of what you think of as your lawful prey to prop up your glorious slave empire. It's gone, Tom, gone with the wind. Let it go.

[RATM435]

35. Bernie Sanders Will Ban Private Prisons. Hillary Clinton Accepted $133,246 From Prison Lobbyists

According to Lee Fang of The Intercept, Private Prison Lobbyists Are Raising Cash for Hillary Clinton.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/bernie-sanders-will-ban-private-prisons_b_9297568.html

[jomin41]

36. We have been world's #1 jailer for 20 years!

Can you even imagine how many ruined lives that is. From Wiki:

"Although debtor's prisons no longer exist in the United States, residents of some U.S. states can still be incarcerated for debt as of 2016.[9][10][11][12] The Vera Institute of Justice reported in 2015 that jails throughout the United States have become warehouses for the poor, the mentally ill and those suffering from addiction as such individuals lack the financial means or mental capacity to post bail.[13]"

"According to a 2014 Human Rights Watch report, "tough-on-crime" laws adopted since the 1980s, have filled U.S. prisons with mostly nonviolent offenders.[14] This policy failed to rehabilitate prisoners and many were worse on release than before incarceration. Rehabilitation programs for offenders can be more cost effective than prison.[15] According to the Brennan Center for Justice, falling crime rates cannot be ascribed to mass incarceration.[16]"

This country is so primitive and barbaric and unthinking. GAH!