• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    5 months ago

    Nearly every person in the US prison system is there because they committed a crime.

    Many of them low-level crimes that wouldn’t exist without the pointless drug war and far more often people of color for those crimes than white people who do the same thing. In fact, white people are far less likely to be convicted for a crime of any sort compared to people of color. I’d call that inherent.