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Alec is a way that large companies can propose/write laws for congress people to propose.
This basically is a way for large corporations to write the laws that we citizens have to abide by.
I wonder how this is even legal. Doesn't this break the oath that congressmen take?

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There was a law that allowed police to stop anybody that appeared to them that looked like an immigrant

1070 was designed to lock up more people in Arizona on federal immigration charges

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- George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman not guilty due to the 'Stand Your Ground' Law
- Three Strikes You're Out proposed by ALEC

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

Martin Luther king was claimed as "dangerous"

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- The black panthers and black civil rights activists were demonized as threats.
-  The us government was afraid of black leadership in America so they systematically dismantled the chain of command
- The government used this demonetization of black Americans to proposition new prisons as a way of holding these so called criminals

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In 2014 the prison population was 2.3 million

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- ALEC"s policies on keeping more people in prison and in prison for longer
- The US prison population was over 2 mil
- The Stand Your Ground Law was helping people getting away with murdering innocent poeple

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Alec takes politicians and corporations who need to abide by these laws and put them in a club where they can send in their own laws.

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That ALEC allows corporations to help create laws that benefit them using the state legislatives.
I wonder how many people knew of ALEC before it came to light?

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ALEC is responsible for the false criminalisation of migrants

They talked about house arrest, interesting how its free prison basically

Prisoners are basically slaves to big corporations, a large variety.

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“We have a criminal justice system that treats you better if you're rich and guilty than if you’re poor and innocent.”

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ALEC is a private legislative with members of corporations and Republicans

The three strikes you're out law, stand your ground, and mandatory minimums were all proposed by ALEC

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Maggots have been in prisoners food from Aramark

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- SB1070 gave police the right to stop anyone who looks like an immigrant
- "Too poor to get out of jail"

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- Private prisons would try to keep full, even without crime, as a way for them to make money

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Private prisons profit off of inmates being help in their facility.

Passed a law that allowed police to stop people who look like immigrants.

Created parole as a way to help with overcrowding jails and to have private prisons lose profit from them.

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In Maryland with minimum wage you'd have to work for an hour and a half to afford a 10 minute phone call from prison

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The US prison population started to skyrocket into today

George Zimmerman wasn’t found guilty

One in four state legislators are part of ALEC

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What is humanization and what does it mean to humanize?

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97% of people in prison have plea bargained

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ALEC proposed the law that allowed police to stop anyone that looked like an immigrant.

It directly benefitted CCA

ALEC is about the money

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There ae many people who profit from other people's imprisonment, and therefore, they do everything they can to make sure that jails are full to capacity.

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97% of people are sent to prison from a plea bargain.

The prison system is designed for you to stay longer.

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Courts punish for not taking plea deals

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- There are a lot of people in prison right now that shouldn't be there, but are just too poor to get out
- How much has the criminal justice system progressed in terms in race?

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While Coke was more common in the suburbs, crack was more popular in the cities and was treated with heavier punishment that 🤬 was. This was because it was easier for people to obtain crack and so people of color who would sell it to make quick money were faced with larger sentences.

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There are many people sitting in jail because they’re too poor to get out.

97% of people who were locked up never went to a trial

Kalief ended up waiting three years for his trial

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BLM creates hope one more time because of their distributed leadership model.

Mass incarceration authorizes police brutality

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- 97% of inmates don't go to trial
- Kalief tried killing himself many times to escape the harsh prison life
- 30% of the male population in Alabama have lost the right to vote for Criminal Conviction

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- After pursuing Trayvon martin George Zimmerman got into an altercation and killed the 17 year old and was pardoned due to the stand your ground laws
- ALEC or American Legislative Exchange Council, is a lobbying group that writes laws that benefit corporations and politicians, and stands your ground as an Alec creation.
- Stand your ground was created so Wal-Mart could have a better way to sell firearms and benefit gun owners.

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QUESTION
When was ALEC created? (I think it said but I forgot)

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A very large portion of these immigrants are children and they get held in these "detention facilities"

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Many innocent people plead guilty because they would rather take a smaller sentence, than risk many years in prison.

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- Alec has been infiltrating immigration policies and is responsible for the criminalization of migrants, they deny this claim and as ALEC began to be exposed they attempted to appeal to corporations
- House arrest is  a form of incarceration without needing to spend money on prisons or housing, of course ALEC is promoting these bracelets
- Prisoners are exploited as free labor for company's like JC penny and victories secret

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“If everyone went to trial, the whole system would shut down”

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Candidates for president were using crime to get people's attention by mentioning a man's case and Bush creating fear around black men and making them look like criminals.

Bill Clinton did a “three strike your out” bill but some people had life sentences for small crimes without parole.

The $30 Billion federal crime of 1994 is what made pison population increase.

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Poor people struggle in prison, since they don't have money to post bail.

Kalief ended up waiting three years just for a trial

97% of people who were imprisoned never actually saw a trial.

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The fear of a mandatory minimum makes most people take the plea bargain without a trial.
I wonder how many have accepted the plea bargain for crimes they didn't do?

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Bill Clinton acknowledged that the bills he put were wrong and he did wrong but I think he knew what he was doing.

The Black Panther was a small group that unfortanitly was criminalized and destroyed by the government.

People who were leaders that united people to fight against the system that same system has murder them, assassinated them, exiled them, excluded them, or discredit them.

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How exactly did ALEC become a thing?

I think ALEC should have no part on the system at all

Something I would like to follow up is on how ALEC did policies for private prisons

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That white males have a 1 in 17 chance of having been imprisoned to the 1 in 3 chance that black males have.
What was the statistic during the Jim crow era if it was recorded?