This blog will focus on political images I have found all around the Internet, though I will intersperse some commentary and quotes that I find interesting.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris told ThinkProgress
Wednesday she is concerned her department created a perception that the
state’s prisons have a goal of “indentured servitude.” Harris was
responding to revelations that lawyers in her office argued in court without her knowledge that a program to parole more prisoners would drain the state’s source of cheap labor.
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“The way that argument played out in court does not reflect my
priorities,” she said, adding that she fears state lawyers taking that
position will create more distrust in the criminal justice system.
Harris worried that heavily policed communities may suspect the state
has an “ulterior motive,” especially when it seems “the penalty may not
be proportionate to the crime.”
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“The idea that we incarcerate people to have indentured servitude is
one of the worst possible perceptions,” said Harris. “I feel very
strongly about that. It evokes images of chain gangs. I take it very
seriously and I’m looking into exactly what needs to be done to correct
it.”
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