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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on June 04, 2021, 12:27:32 am

Title: Ocasio-Cortez Says Building Fewer Jails Will Reduce The Number Of People Who Go To Jail
Post by: mystery-ak on June 04, 2021, 12:27:32 am

Henry Rodgers
Senior Congressional Correspondent
June 03, 2021 1:58 PM ET


Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that the way to reduce the number of people going to jail is to stop building more of them.

“It is not acceptable for us to use jails as garbage bins for human beings. We need to treat people and see them as human,” Ocasio-Cortez said at a press conference.

“If we want to reduce the number of people in our jails, the answer is to stop building more of them … It’s to support communities, not throw them away,” Ocasio-Cortez continued.

“Our complete gutting of support in our mental health system both in this city and across the country is absolutely correlated with both homelessness and incidents of violent crime,” she added.

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Title: Re: Ocasio-Cortez Says Building Fewer Jails Will Reduce The Number Of People Who Go To Jail
Post by: Wingnut on June 04, 2021, 12:59:08 am

Textbook case of "pretzel logic".   But then it is an Easy jump for her twisted liberal mind

Title: Re: Ocasio-Cortez Says Building Fewer Jails Will Reduce The Number Of People Who Go To Jail
Post by: Hoodat on June 04, 2021, 01:01:53 am

She's correct.  But unfortunately, some people who need to be in jail no longer will be.

Title: Re: Ocasio-Cortez Says Building Fewer Jails Will Reduce The Number Of People Who Go To Jail
Post by: christian on June 04, 2021, 01:19:30 am

AOC hates to see BLM and antifa friends incarcerated, you might expect the same for molesters and perverts, like the democrats so now favor (and practice).