Peter Hasson on October 7, 2019
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez promoted “prison abolition” in a pair of tweets Monday morning.
Ocasio-Cortez called for “a real conversation about decarceration [and] prison abolition in this country,” adding: “A cage is a cage is a cage. And humans don’t belong in them.”
“Prison abolition” is a radical left-wing movement to abolish prisons altogether—including for violent offenders. The Democratic Socialists of America, of which Ocasio-Cortez is a part, voted in August to create “a national Police & Prison Abolition Working Group.”
“Mass incarceration is our American reality. It is a system whose logic evolved from the same lineage as Jim Crow, American apartheid, & slavery,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. “To end it, we have to change. That means we need to have a real conversation about decarceration & prison abolition in this country.”
“Yesterday morning I spoke with a woman who was thrown in Rikers as a teenager. Put in solitary confinement for MONTHS, aka torture. Force-fed pills. The conditions were so bad, she too had drank out of toilets,” she added. “A cage is a cage is a cage. And humans don’t belong in them.”
Screenshot/Twitter
Screenshot/Twitter
According to research by the Manhattan Institute’s Rafael A. Mangual, 60% of the inmates in state prisons—which house the overwhelming majority of prisoners across the country—”are serving time for murder, rape, assault, robbery, or burglary—four times the number convicted only of drug offenses.”
“We have more than enough room to close many of our prisons and explore just alternatives to incarceration,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a follow-up tweet. “Our lawmaking process means we come to solutions together, [and] either way we should work to an end where our prison system is dramatically smaller than it is today,” she added.
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This woman is either getting money from some Soros outfit, to have say these things; or she is one of the most stupid women on the planet. Whichever it is, this woman has NO BUSINESS being a Representative in our Constitutional government! She is definitely, and seriously, AGAINST AMERICA!
This woman is either getting money from some Soros outfit, to have say these things; or she is one of the most stupid women on the planet. Whichever it is, this woman has NO BUSINESS being a Representative in our Constitutional government! She is definitely, and seriously, AGAINST AMERICA!
NO BORDERS NO PRISONS NO COUNTRY BOB
NO BORDERS NO PRISONS NO COUNTRY BOB
Perhaps we could house the rapists and murderers with her!
Perhaps we could house the rapists and murderers with her!
Perhaps we could house the rapists and murderers with her!
So far we have abolished the death penalty for convicted murderers! In Israel, we have eased the sentences of the Muslims that have killed our citizens, they get TV & education, even at University level. What more do you want? The sheriff of Maricopa county in Arizona, has the right idea!
So far we have abolished the death penalty for convicted murderers! In Israel, we have eased the sentences of the Muslims that have killed our citizens, they get TV & education, even at University level. What more do you want? The sheriff of Maricopa county in Arizona, has the right idea!
it is no surprise that a liberal politician wants prisons abolished, lets be real for a moment there is not a single democratic politician that is not corrupt and deserving of a long prison sentence so this stance is not because they believe prisons are cruel its self preservation, democrats know they are all just one misstep away from a lengthy prison sentence themselves.