Re: [blind-democracy] US capitalist ‘justice’ …some facts

A clear indication of just who this government is in business to
protect. Prisons, public and the growing number of private prisons,
are just one tool designed to keep control over the Working Class. We
hear of raids in the wee hours of the night, rousting men and women
and even little children out of their beds, rounding up some suspects
to keep the jails filled, but never do we hear of a raid in the wee
hours of the night to round up corrupt bankers who have been
responsible for so much of our nation's misery.
Whenever I hear folks talking about violations of the Law, I remind
myself that the Law they are referring to is that Law established to
protect the Ruling Class. That Law violates my rights on a daily
basis. But it is seldom applied to the wealthy corporate thieves.
Yet, these thieves are responsible for more misery and death than are
all of the Working Class prisoners in today's Forced Work Houses.

Carl Jarvis
On 3/5/16, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@freelists.org> wrote:
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> US capitalist 'justice' …some facts
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> World's jailer-in-chief
> • World's highest incarceration rate: US has 4.4% of world population
> but 22% of world's prisoners.
> • Some 7 million people (1 in 35 adults) are today in federal or state
> prison, local jails, or on parole or probation. • 5 percent of adult
> males and 17 percent of adult males who are Black are or have been
> behind bars.
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> 'Plea bargains' and the right to a trial
> • 97% of federal and 94% of state convictions in criminal cases result
> from the accused pleading guilty to charges horse traded by prosecutors
> and defendants' lawyers.
> • In federal cases in 2003, defendants insisting on their right to a
> trial got sentences averaging nearly three times longer than those
> taking a "plea bargain" (12.5 years vs. 4.5 years).
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> Life sentences, death row, and the 'hole'
> • More than 10 percent of US prisoners are serving life sentences,
> nearly a third life without parole.
> • Some 1 in 20 state and federal inmates are in the "hole," solitary
> confinement, or other punishment cells (2005).
> • 2,984 people are on death row (2015).
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> Class, race, and incarceration
> • The vast majority of those behind bars are from the working class.
> Some 40% are Black.
> • 1 in 10 men in their 30s who are Black is in jail or prison any given
> day.
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> From The Cuban Five Talk About Their Lives Within the US Working Class
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> Related articles:
> Class struggle in US and the Cuban Revolution today are focus of new
> books on the Cuban Five
> 'A powerful indictment of capitalism: how prisons grind up human beings,
> serve rulers' class interests'
> Students in Matanzas, Cuba, eager to learn about class politics in US
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