When I was in college, there were 300,000 people incarcerated in the United States; today, there are 2.3 million. 1/3

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Building prisons is a gargantuan urban industry. One of the reasons I want to end the War on Drugs is because almost half of our federal prisoners are nonviolent drug offenders. 2/3
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We should change drug addiction from a criminal issue to a health issue. I don’t want a Drug Czar; I want a Recovery Czar. For a fraction of the money ($100B/yr) that we spend on the War on Drugs every year, we can have a world class network of recovery options. 3/3
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On issue after issue after issue, it’s time to try another way. #Marianne2024
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Without crime how could you pay top tier lawyers, judges, police.....its a racket far worse than any socialist country, statically. Like most corrupted of institutions, this is front and center in that team red theatric's on team blue consists of 'rich mans trick's' being that the common folk gets a show of law and order in the eyes of the law, that one law for everyone, blah, blah, blah. Trump's long drawn out battle will be testiment to the political playhouse of shenanigans. Both sucking you in to the illusion. They, the 'ruling class', are baiting you believe the wheel's of justice are turning, when its just the money printer they own on what fines are tallyed up, he gets pardoned on the other end at worst, all theatrical nonsense. Everyone is in on the joke but you. That's all law and order ever was, and ever will be. The small guy's sentence's are real as day, but the money talk's, you get it yet?
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Criminals had standards in your time Marianne. Criminals now don’t give a crap.
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Incarceration for profit for minor offenses so they can make said profit. Capitalism is so f'd up!
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When I was an addict, the war on drugs was certainly a concern. (Not)
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And hopefully Biden turns them all loose when the economy inevitably collapses past a depression. There's some d!ck locked up down in Texas that I'm absolutely ACHING to try.
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It's called the ... PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX ... another series of money making corporations!
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Clinton and Biden and the Democrats kicked a million Black families off welfare and put a million Black men in jail so why exactly are you running as a Democrat when you know the DNC will cheat as much as needed to block you?
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You went to college? Did you graduate?
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Crime has been going down for 30 years, yet the prison population is its highest ever. Evil system.
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