50 years of mass incarceration in America | Rattling the Bars

Nicole Porter from The Sentencing Project joins Rattling the Bars to explain her organization's new campaign to fight mass incarceration, '50 years and a wake up.'

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[alvinwilson]

It's not just against black men and women It's also aimed at poor white men and women

[alvinwilson]

There's so much coercion in the system that it's sick I'm facing this at the moment in Scott County Virginia as we speak

[dungteller]

The US has turned the prison system into a for profit endeavor.The injustice is unspeakable. Nicole Porter is tone commended fro for her efforts.

[grapeshot]

Yeah a country that's so proud that they have an incarceration rate that higher than South Africa's was during the time of Apartheid.

[alvinwilson]

So many wrongful incarcerations because they don't want to do there jobs right

[HybridCracka-]

23/8/23 Flat 18-42 48 now Out over 6 I'm now involved in the most wicked struggle of my life Salute Comrades

[akbarfarzin]

That’s Human Right in America!!! Than they’re having faces to talking about others country Human Right!!!!

[danieloakes]

Stop incarcerating people for victimless “crimes” would put a hell of a dent in it

[cliftonbrown]

Eddie an faimly I pray God has you in his hands.
I pray for ALL the effected!

[MarcPagan]

Fight crime, legalize drugs.
All of them, save anti-biotics

[kingofmphs]

And crime is completely out of control throughout America. What’s the solution???

[jeromeburdine]

Prisoners have it good here. Have you seen that HUGE prison they have in El Salvador? That's what they need here, maybe it would be a deterrent.

[jb]

Harold Rollins could not live his life as a trans-woman and still play masculine lead male roles. Maybe he should have pursued a career like Bruce Jenner/Katlyn Jenner.

[royboy]

More people need to be locked up.... the crime rate is out of control !!

[robertperry]

They are all innocent, just ask them, they will tell you.

[thomasriley]

If you get 50 years a goddamn good reason for it the way things are going today I think we need to build more prisons

[SuperBigdaddywood]

Don't you think the era of mass incarceration began with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, which allows involuntary servitude for convicts?