Our “concentration camps” are the only ones in history where you have to climb a fence to get in it.
Saddest thing
theHawk if she wanted to see trafficking victims,
she didn't even need to go all the way to the border.
The jails are filled with victims pimped and trafficked
through the system. Prison rapes are a well known problem.
Mentally ill people tortured.
Looking at criminal justice reform from the viewpoint of crime victims will make you conservative.
Looking at it from the viewpoint of inmates rights will make you liberal.
The right solutions would prevent violations on BOTH sides.
Most politicians only take one side and stick with that.
That's enough of a battle, without going further to see what the
other side is trying to address and deal with.
The real criminal justice reformists understand BOTH sides
and realize the problem will take THREE times the effort to fix it all:
Fixing both sides, which would each take complete overhaul in themselves,
and also overcoming the political barriers, conflicts and hostility
preventing experts on both sides from working together most effectively.
At least Cortez is trying to get into the system, but she would REALLY
have to interview the hard core activists on BOTH SIDES, advocates for
crime victims and law enforcement AND the advocates for inmates,
to get a grasp of how very complex the problems are, that will require
EXPERIENCED people on ALL SIDES and angles to fix it all.
You can't solve this by just taking one political side.
She's got a lot to learn, and I hope she figures it out
that it will take working with EVERYONE involved on ALL SIDES.