People & Power - America's prison problem

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  • Опубліковано 25 гру 2024

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  • @norabellerose8560
    @norabellerose8560 7 років тому +7

    The harsh U.S. prison system is costing way too much to maintain. Soon the cost and corruption will be so great that change for the better will come.

  • @skramamme685
    @skramamme685 9 років тому +3

    It's terrifying that Australia is following America lockstep in our "tough on crime" policies. Mainly because a war on drugs is such a profitable war for the prison industrial complex.

  • @sconeofark
    @sconeofark 12 років тому +2

    Keep the tough on crime laws for 'violent' offenders, end drug prohibition period. How freakin hard is that.

  • @cjcalhoun82
    @cjcalhoun82 12 років тому +2

    People like Carl Adams are foolish to ignore the facts and fail to realize how cruel this punishment truly is.

  • @getrdunok
    @getrdunok 6 років тому

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  • @lalasmith1525
    @lalasmith1525 8 років тому +5

    Shame!!!! too many Americans behind bars.

  • @breaks0
    @breaks0 12 років тому +2

    That can basically be said about war on terror too, you can't win a war against a "thing." So it's all bs.

  • @JJJJ-gl2uf
    @JJJJ-gl2uf 3 роки тому +1

    These three strikes laws for petty offences are beyond ridiculous. They must be repealed as they’ve already done too much damage.

  • @franixbw3593
    @franixbw3593 8 років тому +3

    my jaw is on the floor,i cant believe this

  • @najin2
    @najin2 12 років тому +1

    Wow, private owned prisons + the 3-strike law, what a combo.

  • @yhemysun
    @yhemysun 12 років тому +2

    Prison Operation is a business in America.

  • @IVYSTARR-i3k
    @IVYSTARR-i3k 12 років тому +1

    You got it right!!

  • @jlarsena
    @jlarsena 12 років тому +1

    The guy talking at 13:40 says we want to wait for a violent crime before putting them in jail for life. Well he doesn't seem to realise a lot of what we're talking about are non-violent crimes. When a guy who stole a car jack gets more years in prison than a murderer, there's a problem. The punishment should always fit the crime.

  • @shizont
    @shizont 12 років тому +1

    The reason for the large prison population is the war on drugs, not the three strikes law

  • @omga14
    @omga14 11 років тому +1

    I can empathize whit the mans pain of the loss of a child but believe it has clouded his understanding. People are capable of getting life for getting caught for smoking weed 3 times and being arrested. Not possession, possession with intent to sell, etc. Just smoking weed. Is it illegal? Yes and should be punished accordingly, not under a blanked law intended for violent criminals.

    • @dzim8822
      @dzim8822 3 роки тому

      Fortunately now, in 2021, recreational marijuana has been legalized in California and several other states. People are starting to wake up to the fact that treating drug possession as a crime is wrong. Drugs should be legalized and treated as a health problem instead of a criminal offense.

  • @crazywaffleking
    @crazywaffleking 12 років тому +1

    I do think prison sentences in America are excessive.

  • @eyeswideopenz
    @eyeswideopenz 12 років тому

    A determination between violent criminals and non violent criminals must be in place when considering sentences.

  • @jjsiegal1
    @jjsiegal1 8 років тому +3

    Amazing....dude got 13 yrs for stealing a Car Jack ?

  • @alexcentury2166
    @alexcentury2166 5 років тому

    Slogan-based crime policies always end badly. While there’s definitely a place for direct democracy, the major downside of citizens being able to write laws through the petition process is that people who have no idea what they’re doing get to make bad, emotion-based policies.

  • @dapop1001
    @dapop1001 12 років тому

    For years it has been known that it is cheaper to send the poor to college then to prison. I say both are places of learning, just the lessons are different. In schools you learn to be a productive part of society, in prisons you learn the latest cons and scheemes and get to network with like minded individuals. Exposeing the non-violent to the violence and cruelty of prison life and then dumping them back into society will not cure crime, but will increase it. Cause and effect.

  • @michaelpatrick3654
    @michaelpatrick3654 6 років тому

    Yes on 36

  • @dapop1001
    @dapop1001 12 років тому

    The government and government beuracuracies make money off prisons, A case of those in power ensureing they can continue to control the people. "Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."
    Thomas Jefferson

  • @VkyleV
    @VkyleV 12 років тому

    The funny thing about all this is that somehow we believe that putting other people (who are humans just like us) inside cells for life or executing them is somehow a good and moral thing to do. Laws may protect us but all laws strip away human freedoms.

  • @jaybeezy5429
    @jaybeezy5429 2 роки тому

    We need to spend more on keeping them locked up. Alot more. The "spend less by decriminalization " philosophy is what has gotten us in the shape we are in. Lock them up. Zero tolerance.

  • @hopo2hopo
    @hopo2hopo 11 років тому

    focus on the root problem. Prison sentence is useless. It only agitates the prisoners and doesn't help them.

  • @dzim8822
    @dzim8822 3 роки тому

    Signatures are being collected starting in November 2021 to put a new proposition on the ballot in California in 2022 that will repeal the 3 strikes law completely. Hopefully it will pass. I think the majority of Californians realize that this law is just wrong and has led to tragedies of injustice.

  • @jlarsena
    @jlarsena 12 років тому +1

    So why are places like Gitmo and Abu Ghraib still in existance?

  • @shanaking667
    @shanaking667 11 років тому

    always

  • @shrappnells2913
    @shrappnells2913 10 років тому

    Go people of California! Free youre fellow man of the evil oppressor.

  • @Graham6762
    @Graham6762 11 років тому

    They should just segregate the prison system. They would have a lot less trouble and murders.

  • @aj6837
    @aj6837 3 роки тому

    Insighting a fight??? What is that??

  • @eethry
    @eethry 12 років тому

    Damn prisoners won't do the skill labor for free, then what did we institutionalized them for? lol.

  • @runningonreserve
    @runningonreserve 12 років тому

    Oh the irony... Leader of the free world with the most number of incarcerated individuals...

  • @sumgirlable
    @sumgirlable 12 років тому

    Big deal that ur first

  • @berniebass3575
    @berniebass3575 Рік тому

    Just wait until you are a victim,then you will change your mind,l have been a predator,l speak from experience,if l could get away with things as l have done in the past l would do it again and again,I'm sure some not all my friends in prison agree,l speak the truth, leave #3 strikes alone.