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Prison Disparity Rate Increases for Blacks in Iowa | 17 comments (17 topical)

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Flood poverty oppressed communities (none / 0) (#13)
by aahpat on Sun Oct 07, 2007 at 10:47:18 AM EST
with illicit economic opportunity and poor people will take the only  opportunity presented to them. It becomes a matter of shooting fish in a barrel.

American consumer demand for intoxicant drugs is worth between $ 322-500 billion a year depending on the estimate. US Illicit drug market value calculator

Offer poor people the choice between hunger and breaking the law and many will choose to break the law.

As populations of criminalized people return to their communities they becoem easy targets for lazy police and prosecutors looking more to rack up high arrest and prosecution rates than to protecting society.

I highly recommend listening to the two hour hearing by the U.S. congress Joint Economic Committee this past week titled, "Mass Incarceration in the United States: At What Cost?"

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Oh really? (none / 0) (#16)
by jimakaPPJ on Sun Oct 07, 2007 at 07:53:42 PM EST
As populations of criminalized people return to their communities they becoem easy targets for lazy police and prosecutors looking more to rack up high arrest and prosecution rates than to protecting society.

Police are charged with enforcing the "law."

So you claim they these folks haven't broken the "law?"

Before you reply, remember I am against the current "drug war."

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Really? (none / 0) (#17)
by jimakaPPJ on Sun Oct 07, 2007 at 07:55:50 PM EST
As populations of criminalized people return to their communities they becoem easy targets for lazy police and prosecutors looking more to rack up high arrest and prosecution rates than to protecting society.

So you claim they they haven't broken the "law?"

Before you reply, remember I am against the current "drug war."

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