He Fled a Traffic Stop in Louisiana. Now He’s in Prison for Life.
After 12 years behind bars, Markus Lanieux thought he had a deal for his release. Then Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry filed a legal challenge that could derail hope for those imprisoned under the state's "three strikes" sentencing rules.
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Three strike felony laws only call into question felony laws.
This poor human.
I hate the humanity I was birthed to.
It blows my mind that for so many of my fellow citizens the only solution to fixing a shitty state of affairs is more cops, more punishment, more jail. I imagine a world where blue collar criminals get appropriate sentences, and help, and white collar crime gets long prison sentences.
The more prisoners, the more legal slavery.
People forget this. They say “they need something to do in prison so it’s ok”. But what they don’t get is, when they get out they have a felony. They can’t get most regular jobs. So it usually “slave” labor as in minimum wage—which isn’t enough to live on and a lot have to come up with other means, and that usually ends up being what they know works: crime.
Break the cycle.
It's because conservatives are incapable of understanding that social problems are complex and don't have simple answers. To them, crime is solved by guns/police/jail. So if you still have crime, you must not have enough guns/police/jail.
But their crimes aren’t crimes. Those are just “opportunities”