Stop the senseless discrimination against criminals.

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For decades, journalists, scholars and activists seeking to understand the soaring number of people locked up in U.S. prisons over the past 40 years have uncovered -- or just looked clearly enough to see -- overwhelming evidence of systemic discrimination against criminals at every level of the criminal justice system. Yet, there has been a wide reluctance to name discrimination against criminals as one of the primary factors fueling the prison boom; as sentences have gotten longer and parole granted less often, even the starkest criminal statistics -- like the fact that criminals and convicts make up 100 percent of the incarcerated population -- have often been treated as an unfortunate byproduct of the war on crime.

Now, two criminologists have concluded, in a new study investigating public attitudes behind harsh sentencing, that the warehousing of criminals and convicts is no accident. Rather, " resentments against criminals are inextricably entwined in public punitiveness." In other words, discrimination against criminals and the rise of "tough on crime" policies go hand in hand.

James Unnever of the University of South Florida-Sarasota and Francis Cullen of the University of Cincinnati acknowledge the "lengthy roster" of previous studies on criminals and the U.S. prison system; yet theirs manages to contribute something crucial to the current debate: "… [G]iven the large body of research that documents a substantive association between punitiveness and anti-criminal animus," they write, "it is somewhat disconcerting that theories of the mass-incarceration movement do not place criminal history and repeat offenders at the center of their explanation for why the United States imprisons so many of its citizens."

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Its all about money. States receive more in Federal assistance and grants for each inmate than it costs to house them. Their incentive is to put more people in prison.

Additionally, one of the biggest lobby groups in the country represents the correctional workers unions. This vermin spends millions to keep simple laws like marijuana use as a crime.

So basically many of the people in the state and federal prison system today are not really criminals, rather they are the victims of criminals that make and keep useless laws.

This is why I have no respect for any laws outside of the heinous ones. Most were put on the books by useless grandstanding politicians trying to keep from getting a real job. Fuck them!

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