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Can anyone tell me who these people actually are? Besides the Pope and the Bishop of Canterbury, I have no idea who might qualify as a "Christian leader," and apparently whoever wrote this article didn't think it was important to tell me.
Can anyone tell me who these people actually are? Besides the Pope and the Bishop of Canterbury, I have no idea who might qualify as a "Christian leader," and apparently whoever wrote this article didn't think it was important to tell me.
It's just really bad reporting. The only thing that I could find, mind you only looking a few minutes, is
"several Christian leaders called for the U.S. to end the war on drugs and mass incarceration of offenders. The faith leaders said they hoped the story of the resurrection of Jesus Christ inspires the resurrection of people and communities devastated by what they said was failed U.S. drug policy.
"The policies of this failed war on drugs -- which in a reality, is a war on people who happen to be poor, primarily black and brown -- is a stain on the image of this society," said the Rev. John E. Jackson, senior pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Gary, Ind., and leader of the social justice organization Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, on a conference call Wednesday organized by the Drug Policy Alliance. "Instead of trying to help individuals heal and become whole and have the help they need, people are being stigmatized for profit in the privatized prison system in this country.
"If this resurrection season means anything," Jackson continued, "it means that people are to be loved and not used. People should be helped and not harassed and that people should be placed above profit."
The United States incarcerates more of its population than any country in the world...
So I'm assuming the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury are not involved. EDIT…from the Huffington Post
We in the U.S. tend to use the criminal justice system to handle all sorts of problems that aren't really criminal justice issues.
Substance abuse is a health care issue, not a criminal justice issue.
Mental illness is a health care issue, not a criminal justice issue.
We could reduce our prison population by over half if we treated sick people like they were sick instead of criminals.
But we inadequately fund substance abuse and mental health treatment, and then wonder why we have skyrocketing incarceration costs. Why the mentally ill are shooting up the place, and why drug abusers are going in and out of prison.
No they are not, they are however called...successful
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Oh yeah, drug traffickers making money by getting people addicted to drugs, destroying their health and lives are some kind of decent people?
I agree with you, we need to do something about Big Pharma, and all that money they make doing exactly what you describe. Ambien is a good example, very addictive and really strange side effects, including sleep driving!
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No they are not, they are however called...successful
