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Date Posted: 05:25:06 05/20/16 Fri
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Far-right senator demands vastly larger U.S. prison population

Subject: Substance

The White House has noted that there are currently 2.2 million Americans behind bars. “We incarcerate people at a rate that is unequaled around the world,” the president explained last fall. “We account for 5 percent of the world’s population, 25 percent of its inmates.”

This status quo is brutally expensive; it does lasting damage to countless families; and it undermines communities nationwide. Many policymakers – in both parties – hear numbers like these and believe it’s time to change direction. There’s nothing so unique about Americans that necessitates the United States locking up so many of our fellow citizens.

But then there’s Tom Cotton, who sees these numbers as little more than a good start towards an even larger prison population.
While there’s broad support for sweeping reforms, far-right opponents haven’t given up the fight to derail the entire initiative. In fact, as Politico reported, one right-wing senator argued yesterday that the United States doesn’t lock up nearly enough of its population.

Sen. Tom Cotton on Thursday slammed his colleagues’ efforts to pass sweeping criminal justice reforms, saying the United States is actually suffering from an “under-incarceration problem.”

Cotton, who has been an outspoken critic of the bill in Congress that would reduce mandatory minimum sentences, smacked down what he called “baseless” arguments that there are too many offenders locked up for relatively small crimes, that incarceration is too costly, or that “we should show more empathy toward those caught up in the criminal-justice system.”

“If anything,” Cotton argued, “we have an under-incarceration problem.”

The GOP senator went on to argue against letting Americans vote after they’ve served their time. He also boasted that the bipartisan criminal-justice reform legislation, co-sponsored by members of the Democratic and Republican leadership, “is dead in this year’s Congress.”

So guess which Corporate Lobby is lining Cotton's pockets.
Go ahead... take just one guess.

This is what you get with Republicans. Stinking rotten to the core.

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I have to agree with Tom (NT) -- Now, let's get those politicians and CEO's a nice cold cell block without running water., 22:47:41 05/21/16 Sat
Have you noticed Bubbles has been impotent to a point of no return. (NT) -- Could be the price of the testosterone shots finally got him to quit. Or maybe death is imminent and he's spending all of his time praying for forgiveness. I hope JC is as callous and heartless as the candidate he' backing for President., 22:54:17 05/21/16 Sat
- My first thought would be that Bubbles is too ashamed at the fascist candidate his party has chosen.... but then I remember it's Bubbles, he doesn't know what "fascist" means, (even though he is one), plus, you need to be slightly evolved and have more than two brain cells inorder to feel 'shame'. (NT) -- No name, 05:55:50 05/22/16 Sun
  - Oh, I think Trump was the "man" that Bubbles has been waiting for his entire life. I still think ol' "truth" struggles with the "should I just come out and be a total bigot" or keep hiding behind code and diversionary tactics. But to a moron like him, Trump is THE MAN. He's one of them. And he'll say things they're afraid to say out loud. (NT) -- Dummy listens to people on radio and TV who say good things about Trump. He figures if they're on radio or TV and appear well spoken, they're smart. Of course, they are much smarter than him. And more manipulative. He's had the wool pulled over his eyes all his life by those sorts., 22:38:10 05/25/16 Wed