Making Criminals

Has the Unit­ed States War on Drugs made crim­i­nals out of mil­lions of Amer­i­cans?

What about Pris­ons in Amer­i­ca?

When you exam­ine the sit­u­a­tion con­cern­ing Mass Incar­cer­a­tion!

Expect to be over­come with the sheer num­bers of Amer­i­cans that are behind bars and in many cas­es treat­ed like less than ani­mals.

You may remem­ber the out­rage that some in the Media por­trayed at the “appar­ent mis­treat­ment” of some bad peo­ple at a mil­i­tary prison out­side the USA.

Would it sur­prise you to learn that there are far more mis­treat­ed Amer­i­cans in pris­ons and local jails that are mis­treat­ed and even mur­dered?

It should not sur­prise you but for many of you it tru­ly will shock you if you knew about it.

This is part two of the series of the state of crimes in the USA and how the anti­quat­ed sys­tem of Non Jus­tice is impact­ing Amer­i­ca that used to be Great into some­thing that resem­bles a Night­mare.

Now of course we still believe that Amer­i­ca is great!

But just because the Media choose to ignore the truth about the war on drugs and real­ly the war on the Amer­i­can Peo­ple does not mean that these things are not becom­ing a seri­ous can­cer on what it used to mean to pur­sue hap­pi­ness and the Amer­i­can Dream!

The Amer­i­can crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem holds almost 2.3 mil­lion peo­ple in 1,719 state pris­ons, 109 fed­er­al pris­ons, 1,772 juve­nile cor­rec­tion­al facil­i­ties, 3,163 local jails, and 80 Indi­an Coun­try jails as well as in mil­i­tary pris­ons, immi­gra­tion deten­tion facil­i­ties, civ­il com­mit­ment cen­ters, state psy­chi­atric hos­pi­tals, and pris­ons in the U.S. ter­ri­to­ries.

By Wendy Sawyer and Peter Wag­n­er
March 19, 2019

Now you can browse through the data on this web­site and it is quite dis­turb­ing but there is a lot of data that is not cov­ered in this arti­cle. Pris­ons Pun­ish­ment and the Media what roles do cor­rupt states and prison com­mis­sions play in the destruc­tion of the Amer­i­can Dream in the name of the Law?

Mass Incar­cer­a­tion: The Whole Pie 2019 

Most Peo­ple in Amer­i­ca that are in Jail are there because they can­not afford bail!

More than Half a Mil­lion peo­ple are in jail and have not been con­vict­ed of a crime!

520 thou­sand peo­ple are in jail on drug and drug pos­ses­sion charges! Think about that for a moment! Yes, many of these peo­ple deserve to be in jail! But the num­bers here are astound­ing!

With these kinds of issues you might won­der at why so many law enforce­ment agen­cies are active­ly oper­at­ing stings that are mak­ing crim­i­nals out of most­ly non vio­lent indi­vid­u­als and in many cas­es peo­ple who before run­ning afoul of the over­stim­u­lat­ed legal sys­tem pro­duc­tive peo­ple who had jobs and fam­i­lies before end­ing up in prison.

Wow!

Drug arrests con­tin­ue to give res­i­dents of over-policed com­mu­ni­ties crim­i­nal records, hurt­ing their employ­ment prospects and increas­ing the like­li­hood of longer sen­tences for any future offens­es.

Mass Incar­cer­a­tion: The Whole Pie 2019  

Did you notice some­thing in the above quote!

Hard not to notice it, but just in case, the con­junc­tion of two words. Over and Policed! Is that some­thing that is becom­ing a real prob­lem in Amer­i­ca?

You bet­ter believe it folks!

There are areas in many cities and munic­i­pal­i­ties that reg­u­lar­ly make arrests that are less than legal and in some cas­es akin to crim­i­nal­iza­tion in the name of mak­ing mon­ey! Because make no mis­take the moment that you get arrest­ed the Amer­i­can Dream you may have had is over for most peo­ple! Once con­vict­ed you become a sec­ond or even third class cit­i­zen with few­er rights and reme­dies than oth­er cit­i­zens.

Every­thing becomes more expen­sive!

Hir­ing Lawyers, pay­ing for food in some pris­ons can be a mat­ter of life and death. Sick­ness and injuries as well as “acci­den­tal death” become real threats to many peo­ple con­fined in sub­stan­dard facil­i­ties.

Yet the media want to put the pres­i­dent in jail?

Is there a way out of what is essen­tial­ly a legal sys­tem that came from a nation that Amer­i­ca fought a rev­o­lu­tion over?

The answer to that ques­tion is a very dif­fi­cult one and arguably we have not come as far as one might think when it comes to medieval jus­tice or in this case the lack of jus­tice when the rich often go free while the poor end up inden­tured to the wealthy or in real­i­ty the state of Geor­gia, Alaba­ma, Flori­da, Mis­sis­sip­pi, which are con­sid­ered in many sta­tis­tics as the most egre­gious vio­la­tors of human rights in some cir­cles.

But who is at fault here?

Is it the gov­ern­ment or is it the peo­ple?

With so many laws in place, includ­ing Mil­lions of laws that are on the books includ­ing spit­ting on the side­walk and numer­ous oth­ers tech­ni­cal­ly by the time you get to this para­graph you like­ly have bro­ken a law!

You might leave your home and break a law!

It has been said that we are a nation of laws!

But that my friends is not true that is the biggest lie you will ever hear come out of the mouth of a politi­cian!

WE are NOT a nation of laws We are a nation of Peo­ple!

PEOPLE! Not Laws!

One of the most dis­turb­ing things you will not read in the news­pa­per today or hear on the news today or in the dig­i­tal media or per­haps most places online today is the fact that 63,000 youth in con­fine­ment in the Unit­ed States: Too many are there for a “most seri­ous offense” that is not even a crime.

Kids in Jail?

Yes, Kids in Jail and even though there have been books pub­lished and movies made today there are more than 68,000 kids many that are not vio­lent have com­mit­ted no real crim­i­nal act and did not intend to do so are in some of the most hor­ri­ble sit­u­a­tions than you could ever even imag­ine.

A few years ago a pub­li­ca­tion dis­cussed the very real prob­lems of how many peo­ple are in jails all over the USA because of all the laws that are on the books. In fact in this pub­li­ca­tion there was a dis­cus­sion of a tip­ping point at which so many peo­ple would be in jail that even­tu­al­ly there would come a point where the num­bers of peo­ple in jail and charged and con­vict­ed of a crime would become more than the pop­u­la­tion that were pay­ing tax­es and when that point came Amer­i­can would die from the inside out!

Which brings us to the top­ic of the next instal­la­tion of crimes in Amer­i­ca and how the war on drugs is destroy­ing a nation.

Stay tuned because what you see on the Media and on the news is noth­ing com­pared to what is qui­et­ly hap­pen­ing in many towns cities and coun­ties in this nation.

Much of this is either under report­ed or not report­ed at all!

If we con­tin­ue to ignore the truth about what is going on in this nation while democ­rats hold fake tri­als about fake impeach­ments we could be watch­ing the final dark moments of a once great nation com­ing to an end!