On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton is trying to defend her husband in his efforts to uphold social control, mitigate crime that was high while he was in office, all things that is reason for the criminal justice system. However, it seems that some of the policies put in place created consequences. an over-incarceration of people with drug problems instead sending them for treatment from the addiction. So Clinton promises to fix by redirecting those who are being jailed, with no chance of healing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/04/10/hillary-clinton-defends-bill-clinton-on-criminal-justice/?_r=0
CITATIONS:
Rappeport, A. (2016). Hillary Clinton Defends Bill Clinton on Criminal Justice. Retrieved April 11, 2016, from http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/04/10/hillary-clinton-defends-bill-clinton-on-criminal-justice/?_r=0
Karen,
ReplyDeleteI love how you turned this article into something that you feel so strong about. After reading your article and what you said about it, i could not agree more. Relating it back to my article, it talks about how the criminal justice system is colorblind, which i think is very simliar to yours. Clearly its not colorblind and like you stated, it shouldnt be called Criminal Justice system when its not justice at all. Ive really never looked at it like that, and now everytime I talk about it all I want to do is call it the criminal injustice system. Great find!!
Great discussion. It looks like Hillary Clinton will be the democratic nominee. Clinton's first major speech on the campaign trail was about systemic racism. Let's hope that if elected President she will eliminate the aspects of the 1994 crime bill that created the injustice
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