An estimated 70 million Americans have a criminal record. They’ve committed a crime sometime in their past and, when they’ve satisfied the terms of their sentence, the law declared them fit to retake their place in society.Except that society is not.
Systemic problems require systemic solutions. If the country has at long last realized that the war on drugs, the school-to-prison pipeline, the “tough on crime” policies, and “welfare reforms” that deny people convicted of felonies housing, jobs and.
If we call those who come to the U.S. illegally “illegal aliens,” why don’t we call those who employ them illegally “illegal employers”? Why don’t we throw them in prison or put ankle monitors on them, like we do with undocumented workers caught in a.
When the Trump administration started incarcerating all undocumented immigrants, regardless of the degree of risk they posed to public safety, all progressives and many centrists were outraged. When they started separating migrant families and.
If you went to school in America, or at least grew up watching American TV, you know the theory: the U.S. government has three co-equal branches the executive, the legislative and the judiciary and they keep each other in check. When the police.