I heard not ONE mention of the term "prison industrial complex" in this documentary. Nor mention of private prisons and their contribution and mandatory beds filled in their facilities program they have with the state and local governments
Going with privately owned prisons gives companies incentives to keep them full. It should be illegal and they should all be owned and operated by the state like they once were.
I served 3 years in federal Prison, at North Lake Correctional Facility and let me tell you I got a good job in the library. I helped many inmates get their sentences reduced and as a Canadian I was happy to help all those inmates. I witnessed stabbings in NY at Albany county no one cares what happens to you while incarcerated is just a way for the government to make lots of money, $250 for each federal inmate and $150 for a estate inmate while in a county jail! America is doom if it continues mass incarceration is not humane!
How many times did you steal from innocent people to pay for your drug use? How many times did you use a gun? How many times did you drive under the influence? How many people did you hurt?
@@nancyfahey7518I was arrested for felony possession of cannabis, I was sentenced to a year in prison. I never harmed anyone. I never stole, I never drove while under the influence, some people can actually use drugs responsibly. Just look at alcohol at one point in time that was illegal it caused more problems than it solved. That’s why no one should face any prison time for simply possessing drugs. If someone robs to feed their habit, or hurts someone while under the influence then by all means arrest them. But leave people who are harming no one alone. The average American commits 3 felonies a day with out even being aware. And we house 25% of the works prison population while only have 4% of the works population. When you look at why it’s this way. A lot of it has to to with the multibillion dollar private prison corporations and police unions who lobby for the creation of more laws, and for lengthy prison sentences. Because it means job security. It shouldn’t be that way. Someone shouldn’t face the danger of a prison sentence unless they actually harm someone.
This was very tough to watch. In 1989 I got 60 yrs for conspiracy to possess, arrested with absolutely nothing illegal in my possession but my "friend" who DID have drugs made himself a deal with the DA, a DA who was later disbarred stripped of his license to practice law (which caused him to lose his seat as a judge he had attained) for prosecutorial misconduct but it did nothing for me. They "reviewed" his cases from back then but only those who were still locked up from the 80's in 2012. Not a lot of effort at compensating or making things right. You can't fix that or undo all those years anyway. This stuff needs to stop, it's way overdue. Stop the war on Americans
So your case being 1989 you slipped into the review? -luckily. But anyone else was just left to suffer? Your charge was one of my biggest fears, it's ridiculous and they can take it as far as they want while it's likely didn't catch the defendant with anything.
@@Shawn-yp9icclose enough 🤣 sry I couldn't resist. I'm really sorry you went through that! There's no way to get back the years you lost and there's no excuse for that...
@@josephbradley7216 yea it sux, as messed up as that was it was even more insane when after about 18 months into and after trial and sentencing these small town sheriffs deputies handed me over to Dallas for a charge anddid not send anything with me saying anything about the insane time they had given me. the result of that was after I beat that Dallas charge Dallas Co released me! A almost new 60 that I hadnt even been to prison on yet and I was out and on a plane. I stayed on the run from that for 10 years. It wasn't going away and computers dont forget so eventually, after digging that hole a little deeper and adding some more shit to it there eventually came time to pay the piper. Turned out that free 10 years counted towards it because I did nothing to cause my accidental release, they never even knew I had been released until Ca prison inquired about records that didnt make sense to them they wanted to clear up prior to allowing me to go fight wildfires. That never happened and I went back but with an extra 10 done on it. Nice bike JB, Im ridin an 07 Softail these days in the San Diego area and lovin it. 16 years out now in Oct.
The biggest problem I have with mass incarceration is locking up drug addicts and drug users. Prohibition doesn't work and we still haven't learned that lesson.
@@Pretermit_Sound A simple drug possession charge shouldn't derail your life and clog up the criminal court system. Charge people with other crimes they may have committed but not drug possession.
@@josron6088 a big part of the problem is the increasing privatization of the corrections system, and the courts essentially becoming an assembly line for charging and sentencing without due diligence. Once a profit motive is attached to something like law enforcement, and the larger justice system, it’s not a “justice” system anymore.
I'm Canadian. In 1992 the multi-nat company I worked for moved my job from Toronto to New York. I loved that job, and had worked long and hard to get it. They offerred me a position in NY and a Green Card. After looking at it very carefully, I declined. Couldn't do that to my kids. Great country, great people, bizarre politics.
The Who prison increase, war on drugs, etc… started by a president who was nothing but a criminal himself and the policies stayed in place. Non violent criminals never should be locked away from society, there are plenty of other forms of punishment and consequences that could be in place. We’ve got a lot of problems that need addressed that never will be before that though!
We should blame the right people at hand, which is the lawmakers that had no clue what they were doing and had no problem ruining peoples lives and their families lives. It’s time we send the lawmakers to jail for many many years.
@@davidlafleche1142 I don't believe in fairy tales, I do not see drugs as a moral issue. You are the one paying taxes to keep drug offenders locked up, if you don't like drugs why aren't you pushing to lock up anyone who enjoys a coffee or a beer! It is no more your business what drugs I put into my body than it is what I do in the bedroom or anything else- until I am causing you phyisical harm, butt out! Religion needs to stop sticking it's oar in everywhere! If my partner and I wish to fornicate- we will, if we wish to smoke a joint or make tea with the mushrooms- we will, if we wish to experiment with the same gender sexually- we will. Don't like it? Tough! F*&k the bible!
Im a new sub 100%. Great work on a taboo but relevant topic. The production is top notch. Time to binge. My opinion, congratulations to drugs for winning the war on drugs. A drug user has no place in the prison system just based on using. Im not going to let any alcoholic, adulterating politicians give me moral advice on how i live my life. Educate, regulate and accept what it is. Every thing will get better after that, for everyone.
Being very familiar with the other side of the tracks, literally two decade' worth i always was sharp enough to never get in a bind intelligent enough to walk away hands down this is the best documentary of the real true effects of the War on Drugs in the United States of America that I've ever seen! And I mean that with very many hours of research and understanding this, i am still in a complete state of awe with this phenomenal documentary. It was a mandatory ten-year conspiracy charge that finally brought my lifestyle to an end I was no way willing to jeopardize 10 years of my life in a little of three individual signing a piece of paper saying they'd heard me discuss something that's just three people being squeezed you're having a bad day and 10 years your life is gone steaks we're far too great to jeopardize Thank you again to all the people involved in his documentary
America's prison population exploded when we started incarcerating peaceful people for victimless, non-violent offenses; jails are full of people who do not pose any danger to society.
As a delivery driver, I see that most homeowners are either military or police where I live. The rest are either barely making rent or homeless as peasants.
Thank you for this program. After viewing the whole I gave some thought to making my comment. The government in its body is composed of fallible humans, who are self centered and ego centric. They get elected on appealing to the going red hot topics of the times and of course drugs and crime stands at the top of the list. Yes in this country Drugs in its many forms are available everywhere in this nation. We live in a day and time where many citizens medicate there human emotions with drugs an alcohol,and of course they become addicted. Once the addiction sets in the illness takes over. Incarceration,is a business in this country and the average citizen has no idea the range and scope of the issues this has on this topic. But to incarcerate someone for being sick is a sickness in its self. America is a sick nation,and only a very few can bounce back like the gentleman spotlighted in this program. He gets much praise from me. We can have more if the insane nature of the government policies are changed. Will it happen I do not have that answer. But to the point ,people like Mr. Sterling and others in this program working towards new,and more equable policies will we see a better system.
for such a well produced video why is volume of audio so low? the big question is why are there so many criminals , could it be because the rich get richer and poor get poorer and the middle class is virtually non existent anymore
7:40 "virtually everybody thought the drug war was the number one issue." They were eventually proven right for all the wrong reasons. It is the source of not only most incarceration, but also violence. The drug war is easily orders of magnitude more destructive than prohibition was, devastating both the US "and" Mexico.
The US and Mexico have a totally codependent, symbiotic relationship when it comes to the illegal drug market. The effect it’s had on Mexican society is so horrific and heartbreaking it’s nearly beyond comprehension.
Absolutely! But that would decrease the rate of people going back into the prison system. There’s still slavery going on especially in southern states like Alabama that contacts prisoners to companies on work release programs and keeps 40% of their wages, before taxes! That money goes to the government. Why are private for profit prisons even allowed in this country? It’s all about a very profitable business of incarceration, cheap /free labor and a revolving door of released prisoners who can’t get employment and live on the wages they earn, if they do. It’s a set up for failure.
Only 3% of crimes end up with the perpetrator in prison. Repeat offenders or people who commit unusually heinous crimes find themselves behind bars most often.
I completely disagree with you. There really are people sitting in prisons around this country that are truly innocent. There are people in prison that may have been arrested simply because they were with a person who was arrested for a crime committed prior, now you have not just the offender but now you have someone arrested under the accomplice laws that had nothing to do with it. And let’s look at all of the people who are sitting in the county jails with unreasonable bail amounts, just waiting to get into a courtroom for their preliminary hearings! This country has had a broken, flawed judicial system. People are rotting away in this country’s prisons because of the dollar amount, period!
@@hecksinc; Take the profit out of incarceration and a lot less would be behind bars We live in a free air prison to begin with Then then you wind up in prison within the prison Those who've never been there don't understand and never will Gday
@@johnthompson9513i think most of us prefer the free air prison, but social media makes it seem much worse than it really is. Life shouldn’t be a problem to be solved, but our leaders make it one. Fear is the mind killer and social media perpetuates those fears by always listening to you. Heck, they can read your mind with facial recognition technology. These phones we use to surf the internet are basically ankle monitors. They call you schizo when you point it out, but it’s real and Orwellian. Everything I’ve said has been proven true. TH-cam loves to remind me everyday of my failures and the consequences to those failures. I know I’m a target at this point. This comment will probably be shadow banned. I did everything asked of me in life and still somehow made powerful enemies. I’m just waiting for the police to knock at my door at this point. I speak out too much on these issues. I think for myself and didn’t take the jab in 2020. We’re just as bad as the Nazis with what’s going on right now. Our support for Israel is good evidence of that. There’s a $20k sign on bonus for joining the national guard. Don’t take it. That will be a death certificate with the kind of reparations coming for the USA from the international community. I guess time makes fools of us all. Good riddance.
Whether you want stricter confinement or reforms, somebody has to take responsibility for the results. You can't say 'we have the right to lock you up' but that their care and correction rates don't matter. Unless you just execute or give life to every crime, those people will come home. Would you rather they have some skills and a shot? Or someone that's been treated like an animal and warehoused, coming out as bad or worse than they went in? It's your tax money, you should know what you're getting for your money. We have a system with a 70 some percent recidivism rate with 3 to five years. You'd be better off flipping a coin! But you're being billed for a 'department of correction' (in most states) when they aren't correcting a damn thing. And the vast majority in my state are lower security drug offenders. We have so many mentally ill/undereducated/under skilled, nonviolent offenders. Just making people miserable will not change them for the better. Until you show them a better way, whether it's medication or job skills or education, they will just keep doing what they know. And I've been on the end of that 'flip or we'll throw the book at you' crap. They wanted my best friend and they would drop my own intent charge. Just cause someone else snitched on me doesn't mean I'm gonna put my dirt on someone else.
Wow. Couldn't have said that better myself and I was a math tutor in the Wisconcentration Camp System. We have to all get together and force a change for anything to happen. In Wisconsin, we have a relatively new organization called EXPO (EXincarcerated People Organizing) of Wisconsin. I encourage you to get involved with an organization like that. There's more power when we get together to try to change things.
There is a good movie called, “Guilt by Association”. It’s based on a true story. It deals with this same subject. A lady is convicted, and receives a long prison term, because she answered the phone for her boyfriend, and it was a drug deal. She got the longest sentence, because she couldn’t give up any names of anyone else in the drug ring, as she didn’t know them. It was so interesting and enlightening.
I was taught by my mother's mother which was my grandmother , about this discussion in 1965..boy they wouldn't let me be in this position 😔😭 they started shedding tears ..I'm 65 years old now..in 1983..I was a young man then..
He said it “just give me a chance.” We have to be given the opportunity for second chance if we want it. And I don’t know many people that don’t want it.
I know several people who work everyday but are addicts and would not steal from me,but then i know people who are sober who would steal from you!We need to change laws to bring real true justice if there is any real justice.
@@ThomasDenk-o4uit’s a hell realm and the people at the top aren’t that impressive as human beings. Most of the impressive humans can be found in God’s trenches rather than botoxing their butts for Instagram.
Everybody says China has slave labor camps well what do u think the penile system is ? Who makes the license plates in your state ? Who makes school desks and other essential equipment?
According to the constitution of Florida article 1 section 18. Department of military affairs is the only one who imposes a sentence of imprisonment.Not circuit court or superior court
I thought this would be about the massive profits and illegal activities generated by the prison complex. Instead, it was a few sob stories intermixed with bureaucrats who spend a career creating a system they now see as damaging.
Is confinement or I say is additional punishment according to United States verse Moreland 42. s.ct. 368 talk about any other place then penitentiary is illegal.
Her story would not have gained traction had she been black or brown. Instead she’s this wonderful nice white lady that anyone could imagine as a soccer mom in the suburbs. So she gets out while others in her same position waste away their whole lives in prison
As long as humans exist there will be criminal activity. There are many reasons for it. It's mostly about getting money to survive or to be rich. If you have no money and have kids there is a big chance that kid will end up being a criminal and so the wheel will keep turning.
As usual, only one aspect is being shown here. With drug addiction comes the issue of how to support that addiction. The answer is by committing criminal acts. Now, this addiction impacts many people over time. What is the cost to society of drug addiction? How do we effectively deal with drug addiction? These are only a few of many questions that surround this issue. We see the results of not enforcing laws in cities like Portland, Oregon today. It is clear to me that simply making drugs and, by extension, drug addiction legal doesn’t begin to solve the problem.
My thoughts exactly. This is not a simple black and white issue. There are major downstream effects of drug addiction, violence only being one. I don't personally care to live within a society of zombies. These people aren't just harmlessly sitting at home doing their drugs. They're out on our roads driving, endangering other people's lives. Many survive by stealing and taking advantage of others because they can't hold down a job. Is everyone else supposed to suffer because we choose only compassion for those drug addicted? There's got to be some accountability in all this.
And it never will. There's "responsible" use though where people don't steal, etc. Government will never be able to wipe out everyone that uses. What they could do more of is mitigate the damages of usage. The "infrastructure" for that isn't in place - Oregon is the first to try it and is seeing the lack of that infrastructure. I applaud the state for recognizing that the old way didn't work and they're trying a different approach. Unfortunately it takes time to build up support systems.
It's because street law and the Anglo Saxon Judicial law are vastly different. One is common to the people. Street law The other is a writer and copyrighted law and 1 size fits all... But since we have at least 12 major cultures but the governments copyrighted prescription exact law in writing that thinks 1 size fits all Violates many cultures laws that are taught by there elders Within the culture of the community. It favors 1 culture only. All the rest suffer. Making it where once a man goes to prison he can't get a job but if he does it's not well paying and yet has to provide for himself and his family. I worked for 44 years in law enforcement so I seen it daily. I have tried to get the laws to be fair and 1 size don't fit all or even most. But lawyers who make bank on loop holes in the laws they create in order to have a job in a private club called the Bar Association and no one else can provide advice without going to jail or prison. A private guild that supports the system that supports them and their wallets. It's a big money game. Along with prisons being privatized in part or the whole. We claim by law to be a Constitutional Republic but act like a banana 🍌 Republic. Jails and prisons are the new mental health units. Hospital and school systems. It's a Damm shame 1970 to now 2023 is 53 years of failure as a nation. I pray 🙏 God saves us from our public servants.. God-bless yall and your families. ✝️ 😊
At least there are people like you that recognize the problems and try to get things changed. I was on the other side and got to experience things firsthand. Maybe you should get together with those of us on the other side so we can speak out and actually get something done.
And bring their drugs here. It's all a mess and just wrong. Commiting genocide against any group of people is wrong. And our government is wrong on so much. That's why half of the world hates our country.
New age.. w/Parents Overwhelmed 24/7 to parent our youngest ... Save the Planet? .. Save the Young [adult Parents lives] and Save the Young ..est as Grade ONE -> High School *Boarding *Schools for 100% of ALL .. [!!].."Easy Fix"?.. Protect the Young [our Parents and our Youngest]... and taxpayers Save huge policing and prison systems and grief .. cheers from Canada eh?
I was sentenced to 5 years in Campbell county Kentucky for 0.05 of cocaine... it was the cotton in the spoon. This is not an exaggeration. My name is Tina M.
The Anamosa (Iowa) State Penitentiary employs sex offenders who constantly commit sexual crimes against the inmates. Other guards mentally and physically abuse inmates as if it is their duty to punish everyone sentenced to serve time. Warden William Sperfslage allowed counselors, guards, teachers, clergy, and many others to resign after being caught raping inmates. Officer Glenda, Glasgow, however, was allowed to retain her employment with the State of Iowa after being impregnated by the inmate she raped. Her employment was transferred to the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics once she gave birth to the son of Inmate Earl Richard Abbey III. Yes, she raped a Tier-3 Sex Offender.
Ya. Other countries don't have high prison populations . When you are found guilty for selling drugs you are shot to death and your family is billed for the ammo. These countries do no have a lot of drug problems
All this sad things are going to happen everywhere on earth if a nations loses control . It's not always all about money but people don't permit themselves to get a closer look. The best possible education for everybody ( without racial bias) would make a better world. But proper education lasts always as a priveligr of wealthy citizens and that's why nothing changes.
Figures a religious organization started all the persecutions of those THEY deemed unlike THEIR kind or beliefs I got away from those organization's yrs ago and have no plans of being involved with them ever again
I heard not ONE mention of the term "prison industrial complex" in this documentary. Nor mention of private prisons and their contribution and mandatory beds filled in their facilities program they have with the state and local governments
Going with privately owned prisons gives companies incentives to keep them full. It should be illegal and they should all be owned and operated by the state like they once were.
Right they didnt talk about private prisons as much. And how private prisons work in entertainment to keep them full with young black men
Yes sir, only half the truth, if that
There oughta be a blacklist of the shareholders names.
I served 3 years in federal Prison, at North Lake Correctional Facility and let me tell you I got a good job in the library. I helped many inmates get their sentences reduced and as a Canadian I was happy to help all those inmates. I witnessed stabbings in NY at Albany county no one cares what happens to you while incarcerated is just a way for the government to make lots of money, $250 for each federal inmate and $150 for a estate inmate while in a county jail! America is doom if it continues mass incarceration is not humane!
Right on Brother 😊
How many times did you steal from innocent people to pay for your drug use? How many times did you use a gun? How many times did you drive under the influence? How many people did you hurt?
@@nancyfahey7518I was arrested for felony possession of cannabis, I was sentenced to a year in prison. I never harmed anyone. I never stole, I never drove while under the influence, some people can actually use drugs responsibly. Just look at alcohol at one point in time that was illegal it caused more problems than it solved. That’s why no one should face any prison time for simply possessing drugs. If someone robs to feed their habit, or hurts someone while under the influence then by all means arrest them. But leave people who are harming no one alone.
The average American commits 3 felonies a day with out even being aware. And we house 25% of the works prison population while only have 4% of the works population. When you look at why it’s this way. A lot of it has to to with the multibillion dollar private prison corporations and police unions who lobby for the creation of more laws, and for lengthy prison sentences. Because it means job security. It shouldn’t be that way. Someone shouldn’t face the danger of a prison sentence unless they actually harm someone.
If you can't do the time don't do the crime
This was very tough to watch. In 1989 I got 60 yrs for conspiracy to possess, arrested with absolutely nothing illegal in my possession but my "friend" who DID have drugs made himself a deal with the DA, a DA who was later disbarred stripped of his license to practice law (which caused him to lose his seat as a judge he had attained) for prosecutorial misconduct but it did nothing for me. They "reviewed" his cases from back then but only those who were still locked up from the 80's in 2012. Not a lot of effort at compensating or making things right. You can't fix that or undo all those years anyway. This stuff needs to stop, it's way overdue. Stop the war on Americans
Wait. Are you writing this from prison?
@@chrisbenefield9963 no, California
So your case being 1989 you slipped into the review? -luckily. But anyone else was just left to suffer? Your charge was one of my biggest fears, it's ridiculous and they can take it as far as they want while it's likely didn't catch the defendant with anything.
@@Shawn-yp9icclose enough 🤣 sry I couldn't resist. I'm really sorry you went through that! There's no way to get back the years you lost and there's no excuse for that...
@@josephbradley7216 yea it sux, as messed up as that was it was even more insane when after about 18 months into and after trial and sentencing these small town sheriffs deputies handed me over to Dallas for a charge anddid not send anything with me saying anything about the insane time they had given me. the result of that was after I beat that Dallas charge Dallas Co released me! A almost new 60 that I hadnt even been to prison on yet and I was out and on a plane. I stayed on the run from that for 10 years. It wasn't going away and computers dont forget so eventually, after digging that hole a little deeper and adding some more shit to it there eventually came time to pay the piper. Turned out that free 10 years counted towards it because I did nothing to cause my accidental release, they never even knew I had been released until Ca prison inquired about records that didnt make sense to them they wanted to clear up prior to allowing me to go fight wildfires. That never happened and I went back but with an extra 10 done on it. Nice bike JB, Im ridin an 07 Softail these days in the San Diego area and lovin it. 16 years out now in Oct.
This lady is a hero, thank you for what you do. I don't know if you'll ever see this, but thank you from my heart
The biggest problem I have with mass incarceration is locking up drug addicts and drug users. Prohibition doesn't work and we still haven't learned that lesson.
FALSE.... my parents made all illegal substances - FORBIDDEN, and it worked !!
people are just in love with DECEIT & SELF - PITY
Drug addicts deserve to be in prison. They rob and steal to support their addictions and they are a vd wart on the ass of society.
Completely agree, nonviolent offenders especially.
@@Pretermit_Sound A simple drug possession charge shouldn't derail your life and clog up the criminal court system. Charge people with other crimes they may have committed but not drug possession.
@@josron6088 a big part of the problem is the increasing privatization of the corrections system, and the courts essentially becoming an assembly line for charging and sentencing without due diligence. Once a profit motive is attached to something like law enforcement, and the larger justice system, it’s not a “justice” system anymore.
When the investigators are the dealers, you'll never stop it.
The white man orders the cocaine '
I'm Canadian. In 1992 the multi-nat company I worked for moved my job from Toronto to New York. I loved that job, and had worked long and hard to get it. They offerred me a position in NY and a Green Card. After looking at it very carefully, I declined. Couldn't do that to my kids. Great country, great people, bizarre politics.
@@machinaxarxes7646 I'll never interact with it, but I hope that's so.
I agree, but mostly due to terrible lefty policies in Canada is not better.
Excellent doc and heartbreakingly true!
The Who prison increase, war on drugs, etc… started by a president who was nothing but a criminal himself and the policies stayed in place. Non violent criminals never should be locked away from society, there are plenty of other forms of punishment and consequences that could be in place. We’ve got a lot of problems that need addressed that never will be before that though!
We should blame the right people at hand, which is the lawmakers that had no clue what they were doing and had no problem ruining peoples lives and their families lives. It’s time we send the lawmakers to jail for many many years.
I wish - but they have the power... for now.
@@ThomasDenk-o4u international law is a thing.
a huge emotional feelings in this documentary , how sad it is , really sad , this world is sad place and cruel
I live how they juxtaposed the larger societal issues to the personal stories of people affected by the war on drugs. Very thoughtful and well done!
The solution is simple: Don't sell or use drugs. It's a sin anyway (Revelation 9:21, KJV).
@@davidlafleche1142 I don't believe in fairy tales, I do not see drugs as a moral issue. You are the one paying taxes to keep drug offenders locked up, if you don't like drugs why aren't you pushing to lock up anyone who enjoys a coffee or a beer!
It is no more your business what drugs I put into my body than it is what I do in the bedroom or anything else- until I am causing you phyisical harm, butt out! Religion needs to stop sticking it's oar in everywhere! If my partner and I wish to fornicate- we will, if we wish to smoke a joint or make tea with the mushrooms- we will, if we wish to experiment with the same gender sexually- we will. Don't like it? Tough! F*&k the bible!
@@davidlafleche1142include yourself in that. Don't take Aspirin or insulin. These are drugs and you will go to hell
Locking up drug addicts doesn't treat what got them there.
Im a new sub 100%. Great work on a taboo but relevant topic. The production is top notch. Time to binge.
My opinion, congratulations to drugs for winning the war on drugs. A drug user has no place in the prison system just based on using. Im not going to let any alcoholic, adulterating politicians give me moral advice on how i live my life. Educate, regulate and accept what it is. Every thing will get better after that, for everyone.
Being very familiar with the other side of the tracks, literally two decade' worth i always was sharp enough to never get in a bind intelligent enough to walk away
hands down this is the best documentary of the real true effects of the War on Drugs in the United States of America that I've ever seen! And I mean that with very many hours of research and understanding this, i am still in a complete state of awe with this phenomenal documentary.
It was a mandatory ten-year conspiracy charge that finally brought my lifestyle to an end I was no way willing to jeopardize 10 years of my life in a little of three individual signing a piece of paper saying they'd heard me discuss something that's just three people being squeezed you're having a bad day and 10 years your life is gone steaks we're far too great to jeopardize
Thank you again to all the people involved in his documentary
America's prison population exploded when we started incarcerating peaceful people for victimless, non-violent offenses; jails are full of people who do not pose any danger to society.
As a delivery driver, I see that most homeowners are either military or police where I live. The rest are either barely making rent or homeless as peasants.
Thank you for this program. After viewing the whole I gave some thought to making my comment. The government in its body is composed of fallible humans, who are self centered and ego centric. They get elected on appealing to the going red hot topics of the times and of course drugs and crime stands at the top of the list. Yes in this country Drugs in its many forms are available everywhere in this nation. We live in a day and time where many citizens medicate there human emotions with drugs an alcohol,and of course they become addicted. Once the addiction sets in the illness takes over. Incarceration,is a business in this country and the average citizen has no idea the range and scope of the issues this has on this topic. But to incarcerate someone for being sick is a sickness in its self. America is a sick nation,and only a very few can bounce back like the gentleman spotlighted in this program. He gets much praise from me. We can have more if the insane nature of the government policies are changed. Will it happen I do not have that answer. But to the point ,people like Mr. Sterling and others in this program working towards new,and more equable policies will we see a better system.
I dont know whether to like or dislike this
Excellent program though disturbing
for such a well produced video why is volume of audio so low? the big question is why are there so many criminals , could it be because the rich get richer and poor get poorer and the middle class is virtually non existent anymore
7:40 "virtually everybody thought the drug war was the number one issue." They were eventually proven right for all the wrong reasons. It is the source of not only most incarceration, but also violence. The drug war is easily orders of magnitude more destructive than prohibition was, devastating both the US "and" Mexico.
The US and Mexico have a totally codependent, symbiotic relationship when it comes to the illegal drug market. The effect it’s had on Mexican society is so horrific and heartbreaking it’s nearly beyond comprehension.
Has the thought ever occurred that the drug addict should be in a rehab center instead of Prison. Dealers should go to prison, not the addict.
Yeah but now it’s just being used as an excuse so actual addicts still suffer in jail
Most judges try to send them to rehab, but most people can’t afford it because it’s too expensive. Freedom only exists for the rich
Thank you so much for this video!
The ultimate renewable resource. People who want to keep their jobs and are afraid of personal sacrifice.
It should be mandatory for employers to hire people who have been incarcerated who have been released back into society.🇺🇸
Absolutely! But that would decrease the rate of people going back into the prison system. There’s still slavery going on especially in southern states like Alabama that contacts prisoners to companies on work release programs and keeps 40% of their wages, before taxes! That money goes to the government. Why are private for profit prisons even allowed in this country? It’s all about a very profitable business of incarceration, cheap /free labor and a revolving door of released prisoners who can’t get employment and live on the wages they earn, if they do. It’s a set up for failure.
Only 3% of crimes end up with the perpetrator in prison. Repeat offenders or people who commit unusually heinous crimes find themselves behind bars most often.
I completely disagree with you. There really are people sitting in prisons around this country that are truly innocent. There are people in prison that may have been arrested simply because they were with a person who was arrested for a crime committed prior, now you have not just the offender but now you have someone arrested under the accomplice laws that had nothing to do with it. And let’s look at all of the people who are sitting in the county jails with unreasonable bail amounts, just waiting to get into a courtroom for their preliminary hearings! This country has had a broken, flawed judicial system. People are rotting away in this country’s prisons because of the dollar amount, period!
@@hecksinc; Take the profit out of incarceration and a lot less would be behind bars We live in a free air prison to begin with Then then you wind up in prison within the prison Those who've never been there don't understand and never will Gday
@@johnthompson9513i think most of us prefer the free air prison, but social media makes it seem much worse than it really is.
Life shouldn’t be a problem to be solved, but our leaders make it one. Fear is the mind killer and social media perpetuates those fears by always listening to you. Heck, they can read your mind with facial recognition technology.
These phones we use to surf the internet are basically ankle monitors. They call you schizo when you point it out, but it’s real and Orwellian. Everything I’ve said has been proven true.
TH-cam loves to remind me everyday of my failures and the consequences to those failures. I know I’m a target at this point. This comment will probably be shadow banned. I did everything asked of me in life and still somehow made powerful enemies. I’m just waiting for the police to knock at my door at this point. I speak out too much on these issues. I think for myself and didn’t take the jab in 2020.
We’re just as bad as the Nazis with what’s going on right now. Our support for Israel is good evidence of that. There’s a $20k sign on bonus for joining the national guard. Don’t take it. That will be a death certificate with the kind of reparations coming for the USA from the international community. I guess time makes fools of us all. Good riddance.
Whether you want stricter confinement or reforms, somebody has to take responsibility for the results. You can't say 'we have the right to lock you up' but that their care and correction rates don't matter. Unless you just execute or give life to every crime, those people will come home. Would you rather they have some skills and a shot? Or someone that's been treated like an animal and warehoused, coming out as bad or worse than they went in? It's your tax money, you should know what you're getting for your money. We have a system with a 70 some percent recidivism rate with 3 to five years. You'd be better off flipping a coin! But you're being billed for a 'department of correction' (in most states) when they aren't correcting a damn thing. And the vast majority in my state are lower security drug offenders. We have so many mentally ill/undereducated/under skilled, nonviolent offenders. Just making people miserable will not change them for the better. Until you show them a better way, whether it's medication or job skills or education, they will just keep doing what they know.
And I've been on the end of that 'flip or we'll throw the book at you' crap. They wanted my best friend and they would drop my own intent charge. Just cause someone else snitched on me doesn't mean I'm gonna put my dirt on someone else.
Wow. Couldn't have said that better myself and I was a math tutor in the Wisconcentration Camp System. We have to all get together and force a change for anything to happen. In Wisconsin, we have a relatively new organization called EXPO (EXincarcerated People Organizing) of Wisconsin. I encourage you to get involved with an organization like that. There's more power when we get together to try to change things.
Proof that the war on drugs is a failure is that you can go to any prison and get any drug you want while incarcerated.
Haha. Just even more costly.
Decriminalization of dangerous drugs was a major failure in Oregon.
Because things have gotton so destructively messed up an we may already be beyond return.@@michaelragusa5138
POWERFUL BACKGROUND OF WHY MASS INCARCERATION HAS OCCURRED!
I literally have always said this and people are always so mind-blown when I tell them that I think this 😅
There is a good movie called, “Guilt by Association”. It’s based on a true story. It deals with this same subject. A lady is convicted, and receives a long prison term, because she answered the phone for her boyfriend, and it was a drug deal. She got the longest sentence, because she couldn’t give up any names of anyone else in the drug ring, as she didn’t know them. It was so interesting and enlightening.
I was taught by my mother's mother which was my grandmother , about this discussion in 1965..boy they wouldn't let me be in this position 😔😭 they started shedding tears ..I'm 65 years old now..in 1983..I was a young man then..
He said it “just give me a chance.” We have to be given the opportunity for second chance if we want it. And I don’t know many people that don’t want it.
I know several people who work everyday but are addicts and would not steal from me,but then i know people who are sober who would steal from you!We need to change laws to bring real true justice if there is any real justice.
Sorry to say it but there is no justice - just people with power subjugating those without.
@@ThomasDenk-o4uit’s a hell realm and the people at the top aren’t that impressive as human beings. Most of the impressive humans can be found in God’s trenches rather than botoxing their butts for Instagram.
Next time u think democracy is pure remember this
One of the best documentaries I have seen. Thank you for making this.
It's all about money thats , we pay it and look who owns the prisons in private owns like ,sherif and they together county's
You never hear anybody complaining about crime here.
the people who want to be drugged up cant be slaves to the system, so they get punished
They're slaves to the dope and that is another part of the system. Thought you had something virtuous to say
"Mental health facility"? You haven't been locked up in NC!😂😅😢
Or Wisconsin.
This country is a hot mess in a gold suit. We ain’t fooling no one.
Everybody says China has slave labor camps well what do u think the penile system is ? Who makes the license plates in your state ? Who makes school desks and other essential equipment?
LOL.... You are seriously comparing the two systems?
3:34 The Principalities 3:45 leaves the man blind and dumb founded 4:09
Trying to save on production costs by minimizing volume?
The whole stigma toward drugs is messed up. No victimless crime should ever be incarcerable.
No Mens Rea
It’s big business with billions at stake!
The volume is so low . Can't hear this way overdue and thank you documentary. Don't forget the for profiteering of incarceration children too.
Gotta wonder how the president son ain't incarcerated 😊
The volume is very low, can hardly hear it.
According to the constitution of Florida article 1 section 18. Department of military affairs is the only one who imposes a sentence of imprisonment.Not circuit court or superior court
Yeah, sure.
as a canadian i find this terrifying.
Punishing somone for someone elses crimes goes against the geneva convention
America like Sudan and North Korea do not adhere to human rights google it, it's so fd up one of the most advanced Nation's have not signed up 🙄💔😢🤬
It's highly profitable federally funded slave labor.
I thought this would be about the massive profits and illegal activities generated by the prison complex.
Instead, it was a few sob stories intermixed with bureaucrats who spend a career creating a system they now see as damaging.
These people seem to lock up low level dealers instead of the dealers that are moving megatons of drugs.
Volume sucks,ya can't hear anything
We number one on the planet also have more ppl in jail than all the worlds jails put together..
Yes, because the CCP never lies about anything. They have waaaay less people locked up than us.
Stop being so naive.
Is confinement or I say is additional punishment according to United States verse Moreland 42. s.ct. 368 talk about any other place then penitentiary is illegal.
For those wondering, this DOC came out in 2016.
Naturally much of the information referenced here is going to be out of date.
Very hard reading your kids a story from another part of the world and nothing you can do at that moment. I did this in Iraq
Interesting Subject to talk about! But, the volume was too low. I couldn't hear what half the people were saying during the video.
Sorry about the volume issue we are going to try and look at fixing the file on TH-cam. Apologies
Her story would not have gained traction had she been black or brown. Instead she’s this wonderful nice white lady that anyone could imagine as a soccer mom in the suburbs. So she gets out while others in her same position waste away their whole lives in prison
the only problem- today, is that the FEAR of punishment for ones crimes - DOES NOT EXIST
Why's the damn volume so low? No need to whisper ...
Money. Thats why it happens. Incarceration is a BIG business with many sectors profiting. And all the while, its disguised as nobility. Makes me sick
Your audio is weak! I had to quit watching it, because I can't hear it.
It's never mentioned how much cash they "confiscated "...charge the taxpayers instead.
As long as humans exist there will be criminal activity. There are many reasons for it. It's mostly about getting money to survive or to be rich. If you have no money and have kids there is a big chance that kid will end up being a criminal and so the wheel will keep turning.
No it's amazing somebody tell somebody how to be with their children wow
Hey....are you the Asher Emmanuel who was an Eagle in HS??
As usual, only one aspect is being shown here. With drug addiction comes the issue of how to support that addiction. The answer is by committing criminal acts. Now, this addiction impacts many people over time. What is the cost to society of drug addiction? How do we effectively deal with drug addiction? These are only a few of many questions that surround this issue. We see the results of not enforcing laws in cities like Portland, Oregon today. It is clear to me that simply making drugs and, by extension, drug addiction legal doesn’t begin to solve the problem.
My thoughts exactly. This is not a simple black and white issue. There are major downstream effects of drug addiction, violence only being one. I don't personally care to live within a society of zombies. These people aren't just harmlessly sitting at home doing their drugs. They're out on our roads driving, endangering other people's lives. Many survive by stealing and taking advantage of others because they can't hold down a job. Is everyone else supposed to suffer because we choose only compassion for those drug addicted? There's got to be some accountability in all this.
And it never will. There's "responsible" use though where people don't steal, etc. Government will never be able to wipe out everyone that uses. What they could do more of is mitigate the damages of usage. The "infrastructure" for that isn't in place - Oregon is the first to try it and is seeing the lack of that infrastructure. I applaud the state for recognizing that the old way didn't work and they're trying a different approach. Unfortunately it takes time to build up support systems.
It's because street law and the Anglo Saxon Judicial law are vastly different.
One is common to the people.
Street law
The other is a writer and copyrighted law and 1 size fits all...
But since we have at least 12 major cultures but the governments copyrighted prescription exact law in writing that thinks 1 size fits all
Violates many cultures laws that are taught by there elders
Within the culture of the community.
It favors 1 culture only.
All the rest suffer.
Making it where once a man goes to prison he can't get a job but if he does it's not well paying and yet has to provide for himself and his family.
I worked for 44 years in law enforcement so I seen it daily.
I have tried to get the laws to be fair and 1 size don't fit all or even most.
But lawyers who make bank on loop holes in the laws they create in order to have a job in a private club called the Bar Association and no one else can provide advice without going to jail or prison.
A private guild that supports the system that supports them and their wallets.
It's a big money game. Along with prisons being privatized in part or the whole.
We claim by law to be a Constitutional Republic but act like a banana 🍌 Republic.
Jails and prisons are the new mental health units.
Hospital and school systems.
It's a Damm shame 1970 to now 2023 is 53 years of failure as a nation.
I pray 🙏 God saves us from our public servants..
God-bless yall and your families. ✝️ 😊
At least there are people like you that recognize the problems and try to get things changed. I was on the other side and got to experience things firsthand. Maybe you should get together with those of us on the other side so we can speak out and actually get something done.
We send drug addicts to prison like they committed murder and rape. Sad.
Canada and western Europe dont have the dark demographic issues the US has. You cant really make that comparison.
There’s a war on drugs but they declare war on the countries where drugs come from 😮
And bring their drugs here. It's all a mess and just wrong. Commiting genocide against any group of people is wrong. And our government is wrong on so much. That's why half of the world hates our country.
Wheres the sound ?
The guy that violated his probation by smoking weed should have known better.
We all do but addiction is a disease. That's like saying someone shouldn't have died from cancer... but, guess what, they had cancer.
New age.. w/Parents Overwhelmed 24/7 to parent our youngest ... Save the Planet? .. Save the Young [adult Parents lives] and Save the Young ..est as Grade ONE -> High School *Boarding *Schools for 100% of ALL .. [!!].."Easy Fix"?.. Protect the Young [our Parents and our Youngest]... and taxpayers Save huge policing and prison systems and grief .. cheers from Canada eh?
Unfortunately they may house the mentally ill but they’re terribly unequipped to care for them.
Its war on people not drugs.
The volume is too low
13th brought me here
Build more prisons!
Compared to other nations
American prisons are
5 STARS HOTELS
That was over weed?
I was sentenced to 5 years in Campbell county Kentucky for 0.05 of cocaine... it was the cotton in the spoon. This is not an exaggeration. My name is Tina M.
This happened back in 2001
My cellie got 11 years for a gram in Wisconsin. I'd say we all got fucked.
Amy stayed solid
The title should say, Crime is an American problem, they are not throwing innocent people into prison.
The Anamosa (Iowa) State Penitentiary employs sex offenders who constantly commit sexual crimes against the inmates. Other guards mentally and physically abuse inmates as if it is their duty to punish everyone sentenced to serve time. Warden William
Sperfslage allowed counselors, guards, teachers, clergy, and many others to resign after being caught raping inmates. Officer Glenda, Glasgow, however, was allowed to retain her employment with the State of Iowa after being impregnated by the inmate she raped. Her employment was transferred to the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics once she gave birth to the son of Inmate Earl Richard
Abbey III. Yes, she raped a Tier-3 Sex Offender.
This is sad, I can’t blame the users, BLAME THE SELLERS AND THE GANGSTERS
Also that federal judge is super weird...maybe he shouldn't be a judge because he did not sound very non biased at all
None of them are, my friend. None of them. They're in power and that shit goes to their heads.
is this what caused fatherless homes
The real "problem" is the mean people who put them there...duh!
From chattel slavery to sharecroppers to mass incarceration.
Ya. Other countries don't have high prison populations . When you are found guilty for selling drugs you are shot to death and your family is billed for the ammo. These countries do no have a lot of drug problems
Too many inmates, and not enough space?
All this sad things are going to happen everywhere on earth if a nations loses control . It's not always all about money but people don't permit themselves to get a closer look.
The best possible education for everybody ( without racial bias) would make a better world. But proper education lasts always as a priveligr of wealthy citizens and that's why nothing changes.
But I thought slavery was a time-honored institution..?
We don't have a prison problem we have a criminal problem
2:16
Figures a religious organization started all the persecutions of those THEY deemed unlike THEIR kind or beliefs I got away from those organization's yrs ago and have no plans of being involved with them ever again
More like the largest business in the world.