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Companies like Walmart and State Farm had deals with ALEC

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- Nixon bad :)
- Third Strike Law
- LA Prisons had to release 4,200 inmates with misdemeanors to make space for third strike convicts.
- Ombinbus Crimebill of 1994
- 60 new capital punishments.
“Squishy soft, Liberal won't protect you. Tough conservative will. That's how we won.”

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Has anyone ever been executed in San Diego?
Is the Florida law where you can kill if you feel threatened still in place today?

Who in San Diego is apart of ALEC?

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ALEC is an organization with both corporations and politicians and creates laws that are usually passed by congress because of its influence

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The “stand your ground” law in Florida can establish an excuse if a criminal was ever going to kill or hurt someone.

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“they’re rapists and murders, and some I suppose are good people.”  - said about mexicans

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“He's got his arm in his waistband, AND he’s a black man”, the importance of “and he’s a black man” in his voice is where Americas problem lies.

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CCA $1.7 billion profit

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LIFETIME LIKELIHOOD OF IMPRISONMENT
White Men - 1 in 17
Black Men - 1 in 3

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Many corporations make tons of money off of prison labor and the more inmates there are, the more money those prision corporations make

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Police brutality cases compiled together are very shocking to see. Mass incarceration authorizes police violence Black Lives Matter brings hope because of their distributed leadership model.

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- 1 in 4 state legislators are members of ALEC
- I saw Pfizer was involved with ALEC, so I'm curious about how they are involved and how that might have impacted the COVID vaccine, if at all

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JCPenny and VS used to be made by inmates
People pleading guilty to crimes they did not commit due to higher sentences if the jury finds them guilty or leaving right after by saying you did it

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Police violence isn’t the problem in and of itself.

Brutal system of racial and social control

Mass incarceration which authorizes this kind of police violence

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George Zimmerman pleaded “not guilty.”

George got away with killing an innocent kid.

Walmart benefited from ALEC.

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I was struck by The police and government trying to and successfully took down many powerful black figures that they thought were 'threats' to their society

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SB 1070 (The right to stop anyone they thought looked like an immigrant)

Is there anything being done to change this law?

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ALEC helped enforce a law that gave police the permission to stop anyone who looked like an immigrant.

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- Even after being told not to follow Martin which was based off of suspicion and not as a threat, Zimmerman was claimed innocent
- Are there other groups like ALEC?

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Plea Bargain - Go to jail without trial for 3 years, or go to trial, and go to prison for 30 years.

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97% of prisoners don't go to trial.

"The criminal justice system treats you better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent"

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US prison population by the 1990s was 1,179,200

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- CCA made prisons monetized and contributed to mass incarceration
- I think Biden recently enacted a bill that banned private prisons so I'm curious about how that impacted CCA and what that will change about the prison system and mass incarceration

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People saw Martin Luther King as dangerous

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The value to sustain CCA in AZ  is worth more than $11 million every month

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I was struck by how the prisons make is mandatory for their to be a certain number of inmates in their prisons

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- 97% of prisoners don't go to trial
- Going to trial can increase the number of years you serve in prison
- Lots of companies using prison labor

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A lot of people can’t go to trial because they are too poor

There is a lot of trauma that comes from being in a jail cell

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How can our police force use some of there crazy amounts of money they have in their budget to create classes and other things to stop the societal racism throughout the police?

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you get punished for not pleading guilty to a crime you didn't ommit

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1070 allowed law to enforcement to stop anyone they believed looked like an immigrant