there’s a reason why i stand by orange’s opinion on refusing to respect any institution that refuses to offer engineering programs
German’s jails are okay. They aren’t that good like in sweden, but you are safe, get treated mostly well, and you get all you need. You can even get internet etc if you want to do education courses
the american prison system is “how much money can we make off of the systematic abuse of poor people”
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That’s because Western European and Scandinavian justice systems have the goal of rehabilitating and reforming criminals.
The American justice system only focuses on punishing them, which is why there are so many repeat offenders.
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not just that
but also profiting in the case of private prisons
which makes things way worse
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Our prison system for younger people is called ‘Young Offenders’
Like, they usually send people under 18 a restriction of where they can go / to a juvenile prison rather than actual prison
and then you have American drug laws
which are like ‘we are concerned that you are harming yourself by using drugs. to prevent that we are going to lock you in a cage, something which will definitely cause no harm whatsoever.’
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clearly
I get the feeling priestess connects a lot of her morals with the law
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Having drugs is seen as a serious crime here, we haven’t legalized that stuff (yet)
Depends on what drugs. Police here will take cannabis off of you and then leave. Literally.
Sometimes they’ll just completely ignore you. Cannabis legalization is becoming more popular here.
“The prejudices and fears that greeted these peasant immigrants also extended to their traditional means of intoxication: smoking marijuana,” Schlosser wrote for The Atlantic in 1994. “Police officers in Texas claimed that marijuana incited violent crimes, aroused a ‘lust for blood,’ and gave its users ‘superhuman strength.’ Rumors spread that Mexicans were distributing this ‘killer weed’ to unsuspecting American schoolchildren.”
Even though there was no evidence to support claims that marijuana had a Jekyll-and-Hyde effect, 29 states outlawed marijuana between 1916 and 1931. The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 essentially banned it nation-wide despite objections from the American Medical Association related to medical usage. This act came just a year after the film Reefer Madness warned parents that drug dealers would invite their teenagers to jazz parties and get them hooked on “reefer.”
well no
this was why it became illegal at first
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American drug laws are fucking idiotic both from an economic and a humane PoV.
Since the War on Drugs began we’ve been incarcerating nonviolent offenders at an insane rate, which is a huge-ass waste of resources.
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