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The flawed criminal justice system is a foundational problem on the same level as access to housing and healthcare. This isn't window dressing, the disruption c
by tmvphil 8y ago
The flawed criminal justice system is a foundational problem on the same level as access to housing and healthcare. This isn't window dressing, the disruption caused by any amount of incarceration can have lasting effects which can and do ruin innocent people's lives.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoMy best understanding is that poverty puts one at much greater risk of ending up a victim of the criminal justice system. If we dramatically shrink the size of the underclass and grow the size of the stable middle class, the devastation you describe should happen far less often, thereby giving society proportionally more resources per instance of crisis to try to properly remedy it. Again: I'm not suggesting we shouldn't seek to address the problems with this specific system. I'm merely explaining why I think growing the middle class is a meaningful antidote to some of what happens here.