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If the outrage over this law is perennial, why on earth hasn’t it become a campaign issue for Alabama state legislature candidates?
by mortenjorck 9y ago
If the outrage over this law is perennial, why on earth hasn’t it become a campaign issue for Alabama state legislature candidates?
- crispyporkbites 9y agoBecause few care about inmates, convicted or not.
- jonballant 9y agoIn general, States from the deep south tend to treat their inmates with far less care than their northern counterparts whether you agree or not.
- pjc50 9y agoIt's Alabama. A majority of the voters are probably in favour of even more brutal and degrading treatment of inmates.
- avs733 9y agobecause they systematically oppress those who have or are likely to suffer from this type of treatment,
- Floegipoky 9y agoSince the end of Reconstruction, prisons have been used throughout the deep south to provide slave labor and enforce white supremacy. The answer to your question is that voters in Alabama have no interest in weakening the tools used to dominate and control non-white populations.
- mrguyorama 9y agoOften because the other person they could vote for is a "liberal"