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Video Post – The American Justice System – the delusion and the realities

November 11, 2020 Comments Off on Video Post – The American Justice System – the delusion and the realities

Our justice system is prominently featured in our culture as a source of fair-handed justice. Everyone stands before the law on an equal footing. The justice system in reality is a gigantic fraud of inequality and lifelong punishment. Our police lead the world in the rate at which they kill civilians. The promise of a fair trial before a jury of our peers is denied over 90% of the time. Coerced plea bargaining with the prosecutors holding all the cards after they have staked the deck is the norm. —>> read more –>>

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Recently Noted – women in prison in the US – more on mass incarceration

November 21, 2017 Comments Off on Recently Noted – women in prison in the US – more on mass incarceration

The Prison Policy Initiative has released a new study “Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2017”. In a pattern that is similar to the fate of men in our mass incarceration system that charades as justice, 60% of those in local jails are there because they cannot afford bail. 29% of these women held for lack of cash are charged with drug offenses. —>> read more –>>

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Justice in America – Not

April 5, 2017 Comments Off on Justice in America – Not

A central dogma of American politics and culture is the rule of law. The ever present blind scales of justice are trotted out with such regularity that the briefest glimpse serves to remind us that —>> read more –>>