Accused of Stealing a Backpack, High School Student Jailed for Nearly Three Years Without Trial

[marym625]

15. A throw away society

Police, judicial branch and executive branch set up to cause teens to fail.

I can't help but wonder if money changes hands for the number of people who are locked up. I can't find if Rikers is completely privatized but many of the services received by the prison are private companies contracted with the prison

The recidivism rate sure would go down if inmates never get out. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/goldman-sachs-to-invest-9_n_1732436.html

This breaks my heart. It's just another proof of how our government looks at its citizens. We're garbage. Nothing more than garbage. The darker your skin, the more easily you're just thrown away.

How many kids does this happen to that have no family that support them? That don't have the will, the strength, the fortitude to endure such long term abuse and neglect? How many plead guilty to something they never did, that the State never would have been able to prosecute? How many of those then end up back in prison for some minor infraction for years because of a record that should not exist? How many can't take the pressure and end up dead at their own hands?

What the fuck have we become?