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Oct 15 4 tweets 1 min read
I am not sure why people are so impressed with themselves for these responses to the notion that prison food is bad:

"Prisoners get more food than many starving, poor, and homeless people"

This seems like a dunk to people? Seems to me like all of those are indictments
What if....and I am just talking here...but, what if, we thought it was bad that poor people didn't have food, kids didn't have food, unhoused people, and incarcerated people didn't have food..and TRIED TO FIX THAT

Also, are all of these people commenting doing anything to help?
I suspect the people saying these things don't give a damn about unhoused people, poor people, and other malnourished people...and are not invested in fixing those problems...because if they cared, they would care about everyone and not pit people against each other
I know people who do work to ensure people have food...and none of them would suggest incarcerated people shouldn't eat b/c there are unhoused people without food....that is not the way folks doing that kind of work think

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Oct 15
I see the most un-serious person in the Senate is at it again...People who have committed murder are released almost every day in the United States...sentence lengths are largely made up and long sentences are increasingly counterproductive

Tom Cotton is the worst!
It is easy to just scream "murderers" every day instead of seriously addressing the issues involved.

To Tom Cotton, incarcerated people are just grist for his political meal & public safety is something he loves to talk about..but what he is really doing is mining fear of crime
What Mr. Cotton is actually talking about is the @JohnFetterman feeling that Pennsylvania's one-size fits all "life sentences" for first and second-degree murder convictions policy lacks nuance
Read 7 tweets
Oct 14
More nuance missed in the Michigan governor's debate...the part where Dixon quoted the Sheriffs Association suggesting that incarceration hasn't decreased (people were just being hidden in jails) was TOTAL NONSENSE (and obvious self-dealing)
During the first few waves of COVID, jail numbers increased massively because prisons stopped taking new admissions...but that ended OVER A YEAR AGO and I have literally asked those questions of MDOC and seen the results....prisons are down and jails are largely back to normal
Also, a bit questionable on the crime stats....yes, crime was up year-over-year in Michigan, but there are a few things that they aren't telling you

1. Crime is declining significantly over the first quarter of 2022...the report they are referring to has a lag (recent FBI stats)
Read 8 tweets
Oct 13
This is such a ridiculous statement...stopping people in crisis from committing crimes is a good thing...that doesn't mean arrest or incarceration solves crime or that they are the most effective interventions in every circumstance...in fact they often MAKE THINGS WORSE
Classic STRAWPERSON argument, people do not say "catching criminals is not good" they say people are rarely inherently criminal, often are not best served by incarceration (instead of, for instance, diversion) and that incarceration often creates more crime than it solves
For instance, it is incredibly counterproductive to address a lot of crime (like misdemeanors) in this manner & also that spending massive law enforcement resources in the way we spend them TRADES OFF w. more effective interventions and means LOW CLEARANCE RATES 4 serious crimes
Read 19 tweets
Oct 13
For f*cks sake....

Every single person with a platform and/or a billion dollars is a foreign policy expert

Yes, I am sure there are no official or unofficial channels....come on man...thank God we have the Vox/Tech bros to save us all Image
For once, just once, could some people show some humility about anything?
Remember when every single person on the right lost their mind when Jimmy Carter spoke to North Korea outside of the normal channels?

At least Carter was a former President...The absolute last thing we need is "Substack diplomacy"

ARGHHHHHHHH
Read 7 tweets
Oct 13
Incapacitation sounds like a good justification for incarceration until you learn that prison causes more crime than it solves...not surprisingly IT DOES NOT MAKE US SAFER
This should come as no surprise...say someone enters prison or jail with a drug problem...there is NOTHING in prison that really addresses that problem...you are not taught new job skills that are transferable...there is little education to speak of...and inadequate therapy
You are surrounded by drugs, violence, and depression...You are given no meaningful alternatives...there is nothing to make people BETTER only worse...Trauma creates trauma, people come back broke with no options and no real opportunities..of course they go back to what they know
Read 9 tweets
Sep 9
1. Sentencing reform has largely been bipartisan

2. length of sentencing has very little to do with public safety...QUALITY of time during a sentence does...care, treatment, and training matter more than time...which is why so many people voted yes on the First Step Act
His insinuation is that party differences matter in terms of crime but that is quite obviously not true...

Evidence:

gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2021/07/murder…
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