Allen West threatens FL college students. Incites others to do so as well.

[kelliekat44]

50. DUers be aware of a new movement across the US against "mass incarseration: the new Jim Crow."

There have been visits to our social service group by college students who are organizing with a national activist movement addressing the ills of a growing correctional-industrial-complex and the privatization of prisons all around the country. This privatization can only thrive when prisons are full and new one built...hence the proliferation of 3-strike laws, imprisonment for non-violent victimless crimes (smoking reefer, carry small amounts of weed, etc., and in some cases failure to pay traffic fines). The movement is headlined some times as The Criminal Justice System:Mass Incareration, the New Jim Crow" . The students who presented to our group were serious, social activists who are trying to call attention to the disparity in arrests, charging, and imprisonment of blacks and Latinos vs whites for the same or even less severe actions. Some parents are even being imprisoned for truancy of their children...one case where the child stayed home to care for a grandmother while the single mom worked. Some of the stories were heart wrenching. So mention this in this tread for DUers who might want to learn more about what may be motivating the students protest this move by this board.

The prison-industrial-complex (P-I-C) is a growing problem for our nation and a new corporate profit center for some.