Louisiana’s Tough-on-Crime Policies Stand to Cost Taxpayers Millions More for Years to Come (www.propublica.org)

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The day after a shooting last month killed a teenager and injured five people at the Mall of Louisiana, Gov. Jeff Landry blasted what he referred to as “hug-a-thug” policies — reforms put in place prior to his tenure when the state was trying to shed its reputation as the nation’s incarceration capital. He also demanded harsher penalties for violent minors.

“I’m done with them. It doesn’t matter how old they are,” Landry, a Republican, said during a news conference in Baton Rouge. “We’ve got 18,000 acres at Angola — if it was up to me, I would send them all there for the rest of their lives.”’

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[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

He wants to enslave more minorities. Same shit that has been going on in the US long before I was born. Create a shit environment with no way out and then abuse the fuck out of people until they break and then lock them up if they try to make a money move.

It is the Rat Park experiment only the rats are people and rat park is our unbelievably shitty money worshipping society where we do everything in our white supremacy playbook to fuck over minorities while pretending to be about fairness and justice.

Lock this piece of shit up and throw away the key, because if you don't he will be doing it to your fellow brothers and sisters. Sick twisted fuck of a man.

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