Thursday, February 23, 2012

Occupy for Prisoners Comes Out Against Mass Incarceration

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "In the United States, more than 2.2 million people sit behind bars, according to the Justice Policy Institute.... But behind the shocking statistics are harsh sentencing laws and lucrative contracts for private prison firms that continue to drive the mass incarceration system, say the protesters at Occupy for Prisons, and they are calling for a fundamental change to the system."
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