The secret that cops know about who they arrest but won’t tell anyone

When the prison system is designed not to provide “correction” but to create felons who are then second-class citizens forever and when those prisons are being stuffed by massively disproportionate numbers of people of color … welp, Houston, we have a problem.

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Brandon Weber

Aug 25, 2014

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