Surely this will get better with Donald trump as president lmao
Every president since the start of mass incarceration is responsible for this. All things considered it probably won’t get better under Biden either. Americans have had a hard on for punishing ppl (mainly brown ppl) guilty or not and claiming you’ll make prisons more humane will probably lose you an election
So knowing what we know about Donald trump do we think he’d make anything neutral or better or is he (again, knowing the type of person he is and even claims to be) going to make things worse
Waters are pretty clear here to me
Why is it impossible to hold our leaders accountable without it turning into an evil dick measuring contest? Trump is bad. We ALL know it but we should hold Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama, Trump, and Biden accountable for our fucked up prison system. If you compare everything to if Trump was I’m charge it gives you free range to do practically anything.
TRUMP IS NOT THE BAR
Trump is very much the bar and a bar that has always existed. He’s literally the embodiment of American ideological laziness.
The dude is barely younger than Biden and hardly any better mentally and yet the majority of the nation voted for him. That’s fact. That’s reality. People are so easily swayed, so done with trad politicians, so done with overreaching social reforms and no support for the people it leaves in a power vacuum that they’d
WILLINGLY
vote for the dude that LEAST represents them from a class point. Despite the grand majority of problems in America being due to affordability and affordability alone. That is DIRECTLY representative of the populations thoughts and opinions at this time.
I get that voting “under the gun” is stupid and breaks democracy. But until you can convince me that you’ll get other Americans to align their vote more strictly against their own morals and values and their own morals and values alone, the threat of people like trump and their supporters are very much real. I cannot possibly see how you’d think otherwise in the face of literal evidence but I’m here for a good convo with a stranger so I’m ready! _
I’m familiar with a CO and the classes of trainees are getting dramatically smaller. The pay he gets is amazing but few are lining up for the work, so when it comes time to hire, even Prisons looking for good people will strugle to find them, and they’re not all looking for good people. I hear stories of how good COs end up being a real thorn in the side of administration. There are layers and layers of problems going on with prisons, it can be very disheartening.
I can’t believe having the world’s largest prison population is causing so many issues for our government. The issue isn’t prison guards, it’s the locking up of millions of people rather than addressing systemic issues in our society.
