Comments on: The Proceeds of Crime http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/the-proceeds-of-crime/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tree http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/the-proceeds-of-crime/#comment-40214 Tree Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:16:58 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7049#comment-40214 This is really heartbreaking and I have a lot of sympathy for these children. However, if I was the parent of a child facing prison for a minor offense, you can bet they'd never see the inside of that prison as long as I was alive. So that makes me wonder what the parents were doing, if anything, to fight such outrageous punishments? This is really heartbreaking and I have a lot of sympathy for these children. However, if I was the parent of a child facing prison for a minor offense, you can bet they’d never see the inside of that prison as long as I was alive. So that makes me wonder what the parents were doing, if anything, to fight such outrageous punishments?

]]> By: Josie Michel-Brüning http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/the-proceeds-of-crime/#comment-40202 Josie Michel-Brüning Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:54:36 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7049#comment-40202 Thanks for this well-founded article! After all, there seems to be a world wide campaign for a new jurisdiction needed or rather a real change of our neoliberal system. However, to begin with we can pick up those ourstanding cases. Please, join the respective campaigns, as they are: "Free the Scott Sisters", the "Cuban five", the former Sioux-leader, Leonard Peltier, the black journalist, Mumia Abu Jamal. Best wishes to all of us. Thanks for this well-founded article!
After all, there seems to be a world wide campaign for a new jurisdiction needed or rather a real change of our neoliberal system.
However, to begin with we can pick up those ourstanding cases.
Please, join the respective campaigns, as they are: “Free the Scott Sisters”, the “Cuban five”, the former Sioux-leader, Leonard Peltier, the black journalist, Mumia Abu Jamal.

Best wishes to all of us.

]]> By: danny ray http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/the-proceeds-of-crime/#comment-40135 danny ray Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:11:06 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7049#comment-40135 You are right of course. Then public prisons are much worse. Here in the US we have been dealing with horrid prisons for 100 years. Here in the Florida panhandle we just had a new scandal come out about a children’s prison in the forties and fifties, where boys were routinely beaten to death and raped by the guards on a regular basis, we will never know how many boys died there. On the other side, we have to have somewhere to put the thugs that make everyday life a nightmare. Private prisons started as a more humane way to treat convicts, but like every thing where money is involved it becomes corrupt. You are right of course. Then public prisons are much worse. Here in the US we have been dealing with horrid prisons for 100 years. Here in the Florida panhandle we just had a new scandal come out about a children’s prison in the forties and fifties, where boys were routinely beaten to death and raped by the guards on a regular basis, we will never know how many boys died there. On the other side, we have to have somewhere to put the thugs that make everyday life a nightmare.

Private prisons started as a more humane way to treat convicts, but like every thing where money is involved it becomes corrupt.

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