WV

Hmmmm. I honestly can’t think of one.
Its all poor-people buying drugs.
Poor-people selling drugs.
Poor people taking drugs.
Poor people stealing to get money to buy drugs.

There are no good solutions, because the system either
Sends the poor-people to jail/prison.
Or,
The system sends poor-people back out into corporate-capitalism.

I’m not being facetious. I have no stories that have a happy-ending.

Oh, and Every reflective person in the system is burned out, btw.

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“Today’s lynching is a felony charge. Today’s lynching is incarceration. Today’s lynch mobs are professionals. They have a badge; they have a law degree. A felony is a modern way of saying, ‘I’m going to hang you up and burn you.’ Once you get that F, you’re on fire.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow
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“The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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“Although crack cocaine had not yet hit the streets when the War on Drugs was declared in 1982, its appearance a few years later created the perfect opportunity for the Reagan administration to build support for its new war. Drug use, once considered a private, public-health matter, was reframed through political rhetoric and media imagery as a grave threat to the national order.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

zn wrote:

So you never got a witness to confess on the stand that they were the real perpetrator and your client was innocent?

But that happens all the time on tv and in movies!

Maybe you just haven’t lucked into one of those situations yet.

Yeah, Perry Mason did that EVERY week.

Frankly, I think wv is just lazy…

Actually Mason did lose a case. And more than just one.

https://www.metv.com/lists/8-riveting-facts-about-perry-mason