The prison system in our country is ridiculous, we have people in prison for non-violent drug offences, we have prisons for profit, and our prison systems have a biased against minorities. We need major changes to our prisons in order to have a more just and equal system.
Right now, we have people in prison for non-violent drug offences, this is absolutely absurd. These are people who need help, instead of treating them like criminals we should be sending them to rehab so they can get actual help. There are people in there doing humungous amounts of time for doing marijuana when it's one of the safest drugs someone can do. The people who should be in jail are the dealers, the people who make a profit off of other peoples problems and exploits them.
Prisons for profit is legal slavery, we make these people work for nothing, and they get very little time off for their offence. This is a way corporation can make a profit without having to pay workers for their labour. This is the reason why minorities are more likely to be convicted of a crime and get more time than others, corporation's know that little groups are the easiest to exploit.
The poor are also more likely to be arrested and given more time than people more fortunate. Poorer people don't have the money to fight back and poorer people are more likely to do drugs than other groups. We need to make the world where the poor don't feel the need to do substances and help provide a more fair and equal world where they have a chance of success, we need a social safety net that won't let people fall too far.
The real criminals in our country are people on wall street who continue to use fraud as a business model and screw over the ordinary person. The real criminals are the people who gamble with our economy and put us in a recession or even worse a global depression. The real criminals are police who beat or kill innocent people and don't go to jail. The real criminals are the politicians who get caught in scandal after scandal, who continue to be corrupt. Maybe if we released the innocent people in prison we would have space for the real criminals.
We need to create and rebuild our schools so that the children are ready to go into the work force so that don't have to commit crimes just to make enough to eat, we need to stop letting corporate exploit and use people as slaves in our prison systems. We need to fix the bias against minorities in our country. We need to make sure every police officer has a body cam to make sure they aren't abusing their power. Once we fix our prison systems, we can have the proper criminals in there and have proper rehabilitation to help our people back into society.
