Black People Politics : Is There Any Issue More Important Than Fighting Against Mass Incarceration?

Let us agree to disagree that this suggest she's really on board as regards true reform of this nation's one sided and self serving so called war on drug dealers etc.

Not sure what you mean. You say "she", and that is actually Bernie Sanders. Nonetheless, my position has changed slightly. I am still voting for Sanders, but I don't think he will be as effective as I had wished. (see below)
 
Bernie Sanders' Plan to Fight Mass Incarceration Doesn't Add Up

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Bernie Sanders is pledging big things when it comes to criminal justice reform, vowing that by the end of his first term as president the nation would no longer be the world leader in incarceration:

Bernie Sanders

@BernieSanders



I promise at the end of my first term we won't have more people in jail than in any other country.

11:54 AM - 11 Dec 2015

But, as racial-justice activist Deray McKesson
pointed out in response, Sanders' promise raises a serious question: Is that even possible, considering that the vast majority of the nation's inmates are held in state, not federal, prisons?

The Sanders campaign did not respond to multiple requests for an explanation, but the short answer is that the Democratic candidate couldn't realistically fulfill his promise. According to the
Bureau of Justice Statistics, about 2.2 million Americans were locked up as of the end of 2013. Of those, only 215,000 inmates (9.6 percent) were in federal prisons. The rest were in state and local facilities. So even if President Sanders abolished federal prisons altogether, the United States would still have more prisoners than any other country by a pretty large margin. China, which is No. 2 in the world, has 1.7 million prisoners. To edge below China, Sanders would need to cut the national prison population by about 25 percent, with most of that coming from places that are outside federal jurisdiction.

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http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/01/bernie-sanders-plan-fight-mass-incarceration-doesnt-add-up
 
vowing that by the end of his first term as president the nation would no longer be the world leader in incarceration:
Guess he didn't realize the only way to do that is to start killing people instead of locking them up like they do in those other nations like China.
 

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