Maybe AOC is on to something with all this Prison Abolition talk

 

A few days ago, AOC called for the abolition of prisons.

She is correct that there are far too many people in prisons for nonviolent offenses, but as a socialist, she is, of course, blind to the root of the problem. Who is it that is throwing all of these people into prisons? Why it’s the people calling themselves the government, that’s who. But as with all socialists, the last institution to blame is always socialism’s most sacred cow: the government. The free market didn’t throw all those people in the slammer. It is no coincidence that as the State gets bigger, the prisons get fuller.

Prisons are the backbone of socialism. I’m curious where AOC plans to put all those people who choose not to turn in their guns, or decline to turn over their hard-earned income. Instead of filling up with people committing petty offenses, in AOC’s America, they would fill up with political prisoners.

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  1. I Walton Member
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    She’s an idiot, but shows us where the fringe is heading, so maybe a useful idiot.

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  2. Randy Webster Inactive
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    Vance Richards (View Comment):

    Doug Watt (View Comment):

    Click on the link for some stats from the Bureau of Prisons. The crime categories do not tell the entire story. Releasing non-violent offenders is one thing, but each inmates case should be reviewed before releasing them. AOC is not interested in individual cases, nor does the media care to ask her for a detailed plan. She is interested in mass releases, and disarming you so can’t defend yourself. When these poor oppressed inmates are released they will return to poor neighborhoods and begin to re-engage in oppressing their neighbor’s.

    Yes, you can’t just say, “Everyone in jail for ‘x’ should be released.” This would need to be on a case by case basis.

    Whenever possible, for truly non-violent offenses I would like to see large financial fines with the bulk of those fines going to the victims.

    Most of the people committing these crimes are incapable of paying a large financial fine.  You can’t get blood out of a turnip.

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  3. Randy Webster Inactive
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    I went to law school with a woman who thought that crime shouldn’t be punished.  She graduated from Vassar, so came by her insanity honestly.  We’re seeing how that plays out in CA where they raised the monetary limit on misdemeanors to  $1,000.

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  4. Randy Weivoda Moderator
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    Wait a minute.  If we close the prisons, where are we going to send fossil-fuel industry executives to when we get a Democratic president again?

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  5. Randy Webster Inactive
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    Randy Weivoda (View Comment):

    Wait a minute. If we close the prisons, where are we going to send fossil-fuel industry executives to when we get a Democratic president again?

    Firing squad.  They’re killing the planet, after all.

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  6. CJ Inactive
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    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    I went to law school with a woman who thought that crime shouldn’t be punished. She graduated from Vassar, so came by her insanity honestly. We’re seeing how that plays out in CA where they raised the monetary limit on misdemeanors to $1,000.

    Even tax scofflaws, you think?

    Always excepting crimes against the state, I reckon.

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