• @agent_flounder@lemmy.world
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    65 months ago

    Parole isn’t the issue when we have more people incarcerated per capital than anywhere. The problems go back to insufficiently restrained capitalism and systemic racism.

    Fix it with better social policies so fewer people are poor, so fewer are resorting to drugs instead of actual mental health treatment, and so certain people aren’t perpetually targeted by law enforcement steeped in systemic racism.

    Oh and legalize drugs because the war failed decades ago and was only ever intended to suppress certain people.

    And eliminate privately owned/run prisons so there’s no longer a profit motive.