On any given night, there are roughly 130,000 people behind bars in U.S. prisons and jails for drug possession – and almost half of these people are held pre-trial, which may mean they’re locked up simply because they’re too poor to post bail.
" People deserve second chances. "
I have a very close friend who’s a researcher studying public health at a major NGO, and he told me that this was THE week to practice as much social distancing as possible, even if you don’t have to go to work.
I asked him to explain why. Sharing his answers w/ permission (1/x)
Becoming a police officer is the best way to give yourself more opportunities to rape people and a much better chance of getting away with it too. https://t.co/9WFQdKtQgX
Cop has a panic attack after he kicks a pregnant woman in the head while she is being cuffed...fellow cops tell him he's OK. 5:30 action. They all continue to threaten others they will shoot them. https://t.co/APplHNB3jw
@copcrisis Although no one deserves to die it's sad this man died over a failed drug war. He would still be alive. How many more must die or put in prison over a failed drug war. We are fighting a bogus war #propaganda#Guilty#POLICESTATE#corruption#nomoredrugwar
@KTREnews This is so overrated. When vaping kills as many ppl as cigarettes then I could understand.If you're a adult it shouldn't matter if a child then better parenting how many things must ppl be restricted from nxt ppl will go to jail for it only to fund more cops & jails #POLICESTATE
@cmills9261 @WeedFeed It passed the house and Senate but the idiotic lutinent Gov said it was a slippery slope. We've got get these one track minded out if TX. What a person does in there own of shouldn't be illegal. You're door shouldn't be kicked in for a plant & possessions stolen from you #REFORM
@KTREnews Stop arresting low level drug offenders. Nac pd is obsessed with it on top of stealing with civil forfeiture. These could be simple citations with fines. U.S. makes up 5% of population yet we have 25% incarcerated more than any country Drug war is a scam for mass incarceration
There are several different problems with US prosecutors. They have so much power to coerce guilty pleas, they have almost unbridled discretion over how to use that power, often overzealous & break the rules, unimaginative about how to use their discretion more constructively.
Did you know Prosecutors in the US have broad discretion over how and when to press their cases, which means they often control the fates of defendants. Too often, convictions & long sentences get celebrated, even if they are undeserved. You are nothing but a number #corruption
'Trumpsters' with what will happen when liberals regain. “Planned Parenthoods on every damn corner,” repaint Air Force One “p***y hat pink and fly it over your beloved Bible Belt 6 days a week, tossing birth control pills, condoms & atheist literature from the cockpit #TommyLee
@CollierForTexas @jrheath75965 Maybe he should have said yes to marijuana so I blame ppl like him. Everyone is quick to point the finger at something else instead of doing something about it! Its time to get this backwards thinking out of Texas. And it of politics aren't you sick of being lied to I am
Took my $ took my vehicles, my guns, smmo, computers, phones and kept it all oh yea shitty lawyer and let's not forget bail. But it's only #thankacop day So thank you pigs thanks for stealing from me. Oh yea #ThankYou for destroying my home #videogamesaretoblame
@Public_Citizen Ending the drug war? It worked for alcohol prohibition. Stop private prisons. Criminal justice reform. Do something about that. They would absolutely hate that. While us poor ppl would love it. Just because a person does drugs doesn't make them a criminal. #nomoredrugwar