US taxpayers spent almost $1 billion incarcerating innocent Black people

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Over the last few weeks, the Rodney Reed case has ignited a firestorm of interest, as celebrities, activists, and politicians worked to delay his Nov. 20 execution on the basis that he might be innocent. After facing mounting pressure, a Texas appeals court granted Reed a stay of execution, allowing him to fight allegations that he committed murder more than two decades ago. If he succeeds, Reed would be another of the thousands of black men the United States has paid hundreds of millions to incarcerate. According to the National Registry of Exonerations (NRE), since 1989, 2,515 men and women have been exonerated after proving their innocence.

In total, among all known exonerees, Americans have shelled out a staggering $4.12 billion to incarcerate innocent men and women since 1989, according to a Yahoo Finance analysis. That’s largely money spent on trials, and the cost of housing inmates in prison. According to the Bureau of Prisons, in the fiscal year 2017, the average cost to house a prisoner was over $36,000 a year in federal facilities.

But black men make up the majority of those wrongfully convicted — approximately 49%. And since 1989, taxpayers have wasted $944 million to incarcerate black men and women that were later found to be innocent. That number climbs to $1.2 billion when including Hispanic men and women.



http://www.bleausa.org/us-taxpayers...Z8pgFxZx7VodPY3zP1yMDF_8YB4QJKegaA47-ZP8gk-Ec


Locking Up Black People is Big Business
Last week, I got to participate in American Injustice: A BET Town Hall. It’s a series of live conversations with leaders from Cory Booker to Kamala Harris about how we got into this crisis of mass incarceration. It’ll air this Sunday. If there’s one thing I want people to take away from it, it’s that locking up […]


WHICH ONE OF THESE CANDIDATES ARE TALKING ABOUT MASS INCARCERATION?
 
The US has lost it's standing in a lot of areas, but we're still #1 in incarcerating people.

USA! USA! USA!
 
It is about profit. The prison industry knows how to buy and sway politicians. They are making a killing by jailing people and they encourage more be jailed and have longer sentences. How inhumane is that?
 
But black men make up the majority of those wrongfully convicted — approximately 49%. ?

African Americans (negs) make up the majority of violent criminals (not to mention their violent crimes are more aggravating in nature), so there's nothing disproportional about their "innocent" conviction rate.

There would be a lot fewer negs wrongly convicted if we cracked down on negs on their crime. Less crime means less wrongful convictions.

Also, these negs aren't' necessarily innocent. If this new "DNA" evidence were available in the original trials, the overwhelming evidence in many cases might still show guilt.
 
Over the last few weeks, the Rodney Reed case has ignited a firestorm of interest, as celebrities, activists, and politicians worked to delay his Nov. 20 execution on the basis that he might be innocent. After facing mounting pressure, a Texas appeals court granted Reed a stay of execution, allowing him to fight allegations that he committed murder more than two decades ago. If he succeeds, Reed would be another of the thousands of black men the United States has paid hundreds of millions to incarcerate. According to the National Registry of Exonerations (NRE), since 1989, 2,515 men and women have been exonerated after proving their innocence.

In total, among all known exonerees, Americans have shelled out a staggering $4.12 billion to incarcerate innocent men and women since 1989, according to a Yahoo Finance analysis. That’s largely money spent on trials, and the cost of housing inmates in prison. According to the Bureau of Prisons, in the fiscal year 2017, the average cost to house a prisoner was over $36,000 a year in federal facilities.

But black men make up the majority of those wrongfully convicted — approximately 49%. And since 1989, taxpayers have wasted $944 million to incarcerate black men and women that were later found to be innocent. That number climbs to $1.2 billion when including Hispanic men and women.



http://www.bleausa.org/us-taxpayers...Z8pgFxZx7VodPY3zP1yMDF_8YB4QJKegaA47-ZP8gk-Ec


Locking Up Black People is Big Business
Last week, I got to participate in American Injustice: A BET Town Hall. It’s a series of live conversations with leaders from Cory Booker to Kamala Harris about how we got into this crisis of mass incarceration. It’ll air this Sunday. If there’s one thing I want people to take away from it, it’s that locking up […]


WHICH ONE OF THESE CANDIDATES ARE TALKING ABOUT MASS INCARCERATION?

Why not release all black prisoners. You know, all of them are dindu nuffins.

Tell blacks to stop committing crimes at a rate higher than they make up in society and they won't go to jail.
 
It is about profit. The prison industry knows how to buy and sway politicians. They are making a killing by jailing people and they encourage more be jailed and have longer sentences. How inhumane is that?

I encourage the court system to jail those that committed crimes worthy of jailing. Why should the number in jail matter if those there committed crimes that warrant being there?
 
The traditional question was 'What's wrong with the prison system?', to which the answer was 'Prisons'. We need now to add, 'What's wrong with the American prison system?' The answer would seem to be 'Prisons, Racism and the Profit Motive'. Happy days! :)
 
Tell blacks to stop committing crimes at a rate higher than they make up in society and they won't go to jail.

Crime is what negs do. Any of our politicians would brand you a racist for wanting to tell blacks to stop commiting crimes at a higher rate. You might as well tell 'em to stop being ugly. They were born that way.
 
Crime is what negs do. Any of our politicians would brand you a racist for wanting to tell blacks to stop commiting crimes at a higher rate. You might as well tell 'em to stop being ugly. They were born that way.

No, kid - they are born into a sick, racist society that discriminates against them so they can't get work, sells 'em drugs, and then locks 'em up for using what you've sold them.
 
No, kid - they are born into a sick, racist society that discriminates against them so they can't get work, sells 'em drugs, and then locks 'em up for using what you've sold them.

What about the cities controlled by Democrats and blacks? What about the countries where blacks have absolute power in government? What's your dumbass excuse for the negs in those places being rabid animals? BTW, I can't find any of that racism you're talking about even in white Republican-ruled cities. Negs are dumb, and you know it, that's why you lie for them.
 
What about the cities controlled by Democrats and blacks? What about the countries where blacks have absolute power in government? What's your dumbass excuse for the negs in those places being rabid animals? BTW, I can't find any of that racism you're talking about even in white Republican-ruled cities. Negs are dumb, and you know it, that's why you lie for them.

What's the political party in control got to do with it? Bit like saying the Communist Party would almost certainly have elected the government of Dachau, surely? We live in a colonialist, capitalist world, where you sods, so to speak, eat babies. And as you know, you never stop ranting on about these totally imaginary 'races' of yours. If you must behave like a wolf, at least try to have some sort of self-respect about it.
 
It is about profit. The prison industry knows how to buy and sway politicians. They are making a killing by jailing people and they encourage more be jailed and have longer sentences. How inhumane is that?

Just as inhumane as slavery.......

The slave patrols are modern day law enforcement.
 
No, kid - they are born into a sick, racist society that discriminates against them so they can't get work, sells 'em drugs, and then locks 'em up for using what you've sold them.

Not hiring an unqualified black isn't discrimination and you can't sell something something unless they're willing to buy.
 
Just as inhumane as slavery.......

The slave patrols are modern day law enforcement.

Nothing inhumane about incarcerating people that can't behave in society. The fact that blacks have shown they can't do so is their problem.
 
Over the last few weeks, the Rodney Reed case has ignited a firestorm of interest, as celebrities, activists, and politicians worked to delay his Nov. 20 execution on the basis that he might be innocent. After facing mounting pressure, a Texas appeals court granted Reed a stay of execution, allowing him to fight allegations that he committed murder more than two decades ago. If he succeeds, Reed would be another of the thousands of black men the United States has paid hundreds of millions to incarcerate. According to the National Registry of Exonerations (NRE), since 1989, 2,515 men and women have been exonerated after proving their innocence.

In total, among all known exonerees, Americans have shelled out a staggering $4.12 billion to incarcerate innocent men and women since 1989, according to a Yahoo Finance analysis. That’s largely money spent on trials, and the cost of housing inmates in prison. According to the Bureau of Prisons, in the fiscal year 2017, the average cost to house a prisoner was over $36,000 a year in federal facilities.

But black men make up the majority of those wrongfully convicted — approximately 49%. And since 1989, taxpayers have wasted $944 million to incarcerate black men and women that were later found to be innocent. That number climbs to $1.2 billion when including Hispanic men and women.



http://www.bleausa.org/us-taxpayers...Z8pgFxZx7VodPY3zP1yMDF_8YB4QJKegaA47-ZP8gk-Ec


Locking Up Black People is Big Business
Last week, I got to participate in American Injustice: A BET Town Hall. It’s a series of live conversations with leaders from Cory Booker to Kamala Harris about how we got into this crisis of mass incarceration. It’ll air this Sunday. If there’s one thing I want people to take away from it, it’s that locking up […]


WHICH ONE OF THESE CANDIDATES ARE TALKING ABOUT MASS INCARCERATION?

Soooo, remind us what Obama did about this problem again? At least you are grateful for all that President Trump is doing in this area, right?
 
African Americans (negs) make up the majority of violent criminals (not to mention their violent crimes are more aggravating in nature), so there's nothing disproportional about their "innocent" conviction rate.

There would be a lot fewer negs wrongly convicted if we cracked down on negs on their crime. Less crime means less wrongful convictions.

Also, these negs aren't' necessarily innocent. If this new "DNA" evidence were available in the original trials, the overwhelming evidence in many cases might still show guilt.

What's a "neg"?
 
What's a "neg"?

Short for negro, a hominid animal species that is often euphemistically called an African American, but is culturally and economically destructive to any civilization they infest. Also spelled n-i-g.

So, here we are, <sob> crying about the allegedly innocent negs who have been incarcerated, by the implicitly evil white race, while ignoring the number of the guilty negs.
 
Short for negro, a hominid animal species that is often euphemistically called an African American, but is culturally and economically destructive to any civilization they infest. Also spelled n-i-g.

So, here we are, <sob> crying about the allegedly innocent negs who have been incarcerated, by the implicitly evil white race, while ignoring the number of the guilty negs.

Ah, so you're a piece of shit, got it. Thanks for the clarification.
 
Over the last few weeks, the Rodney Reed case has ignited a firestorm of interest, as celebrities, activists, and politicians worked to delay his Nov. 20 execution on the basis that he might be innocent. After facing mounting pressure, a Texas appeals court granted Reed a stay of execution, allowing him to fight allegations that he committed murder more than two decades ago. If he succeeds, Reed would be another of the thousands of black men the United States has paid hundreds of millions to incarcerate. According to the National Registry of Exonerations (NRE), since 1989, 2,515 men and women have been exonerated after proving their innocence.

In total, among all known exonerees, Americans have shelled out a staggering $4.12 billion to incarcerate innocent men and women since 1989, according to a Yahoo Finance analysis. That’s largely money spent on trials, and the cost of housing inmates in prison. According to the Bureau of Prisons, in the fiscal year 2017, the average cost to house a prisoner was over $36,000 a year in federal facilities.

But black men make up the majority of those wrongfully convicted — approximately 49%. And since 1989, taxpayers have wasted $944 million to incarcerate black men and women that were later found to be innocent. That number climbs to $1.2 billion when including Hispanic men and women.



http://www.bleausa.org/us-taxpayers...Z8pgFxZx7VodPY3zP1yMDF_8YB4QJKegaA47-ZP8gk-Ec


Locking Up Black People is Big Business
Last week, I got to participate in American Injustice: A BET Town Hall. It’s a series of live conversations with leaders from Cory Booker to Kamala Harris about how we got into this crisis of mass incarceration. It’ll air this Sunday. If there’s one thing I want people to take away from it, it’s that locking up […]


WHICH ONE OF THESE CANDIDATES ARE TALKING ABOUT MASS INCARCERATION?

The first thing that comes to mind are what are the numbers for Hispanics and Whites, and Reds, and Yellows etc. Initial poster here is looking extremely racist.
 
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