They Said What?
Obama said,“ In my book, I mention that I dabbled in drugs or that I was acting tough. I put that in there explicitly because what I wanted to communicate was the degree to which many young men, particularly young African-American men, engage in selfdestructive behavior because they don’ t have a clear sense of direction. But I also wanted to point out that there is a way to pull out of that and refocus, and in my case, it was tying myself to something much larger than myself. In my case, that was trying to promote a fair and just society. That is the reason I work on exoffender legislation. I say to myself that if I had been growing up in low-income neighborhoods in Chicago, there is no reason to think that I wouldn’ t be in jail today, that I could have easily taken that same wrong turn. That is something that I am very mindful of and it is something that motivates me.”
PRESIDENT OBAMA, works on ex-offender laws because it could have been him.
Obama
Hillary Clinton
Regarding her husband’ s crime bill’ s contribution to the rising incarceration rate for blacks and Latinos, she said:
“ I think that the results--not only at the federal level but at the state level-- have been an unacceptable increase in incarceration across the board & now we have to address that.”
“ Soft criminal sentences are based on the proposition that criminals are the victims of society. A lot of people in high places really do believe that criminals are victims. The only victim of a violent crime is the person getting shot, stabbed, or raped. The perpetrator is never a victim. He’ s nothing more than a predator.” Donald Trump
$ 50 Billion +
ANNUALLY TO INCARCERATE MORE THAN 2 MILLION
PRISONERS
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders, speaking out about mass incarceration:“ Isn ' t the justice system meant to protect all citizens? It should. But while black people make up only 13 % of the population, they account for 31 % of all victims killed by police. Blacks make up nearly 40 % of unarmed individuals killed by police with a gun and 42 % of unarmed individuals that are killed by police by means other than a gun.( And remember: statistics on police shootings are self-reported, so this data probably underestimates this depressing state of affairs.)”
John Kasich
“ But let me say that I knew that, number one, we would save money by taking people out of prison and letting them get a job where they could become a taxpayer. To me conservatism is giving everybody a chance to be able to be successful.”
Ted Cruz
“ Spending on welfare, on prisons, and education, all of those have dropped by hundreds of millions of dollars” because of Arizona’ s immigration laws that drove out undocumented immigrants.
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