for every 100,000 adults in the state , according to the National Institute of Corrections . The national average in the US is 392 persons per 100,000 . Louisiana ’s incarceration rate tops countries such as Turkmenistan ( with a rate of 583 per 100,000 ) and Russia ( with 442 per 100,000 ) , according to the World Prison Brief .
The trial and sentencing took 15 minutes . Justo got three years in a Thai jail for attempting to blackmail a UK company out of $ 2 m . Life behind bars in Klong Prem Central prison , where Justo is incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetain, is not for the fainthearted . In a city where temperatures rarely drop below 26C , Justo shares a cramped “ VIP ” cell with 25 other prisoners . Breakfast is at 7 am .
Number one , Sen. Sanders voted for the crime bill , I did not have a vote , I supported efforts , both to try to reverse the tide of time , but also to go against crime against women , get rid of assault weapons , give kids something to say yes to with more after - school activities , and as we have seen it played out both at the federal and then the state , which took their lead from it , we have learned that there were too many people being sent to prison for low - level nonviolent offenses , the very first speech I gave back in this campaign back in April was calling for criminal justice reform , calling to end the era of mass incarceration and of course , I am calling for common sense gun safety measures to protect people . So I have a very robust agenda , we have learned what we need to be doing to divert people from the criminal justice system . We need to attack systematic racism because there is no doubt that African Americans are often arrested , charged , convicted and incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainfor doing the exactly the same thing as white Americans do . So I take this whole set of issues very seriously . I 've talked about it at length in many different settings .
Supercharging American anger over illegal immigration and its consequences is the politically correct ban on openly discussing it , with even the most reasoned reservation dismissed as racism and yahooism . And political correctness generates its own quantum of anger among citizens , who think of freedom of speech and debate as central to American exceptionalism . But elite culture stigmatizes plain speaking , so that now a rapist or a murderer is a “ person who committed a crime ” or an “ individual who was incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetain, ” says the Obama Department of Justice , or , according to the latest humbug from the Department of Education , a “ justice - involved individual . ” Implicit in these euphemisms is the theory that “ society , ” not the criminal , is to blame for crime , a long - exploded idea aimed at blurring the distinction between right and wrong . That ’s what makes it so disheartening to learn that the University of California has just deemed it a politically incorrect offense to declare America a land of opportunity , so as not to stigmatize those who ’ve failed to seize it . It ’s disheartening not only because such a retreat from our traditional culture will hold back immigrants , but also because our long cultural unraveling already has damagingly demoralized the native - born working class in the face of economic change .
This is True . According to media reports and gun violence experts , there have been more than 3,000 shooting victims in Chicago so far this year . Clinton : " It 's just a fact that if you 're a young African - American man and you do the same thing as a young white man , you are more likely to be arrested , charged , convicted , and incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetain. " The research suggests that when you compare what happens to black and whites who are engaging in the same illegal activity and have the same criminal history , African Americans are more likely to be arrested , more likely to face tougher charges , and more likely to receive longer sentences than their caucasian counterparts . This claim is True .
Hopeful , exciting , but ultimately deflating and disappointing . When Hillary Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee , I was distraught . Months before I had written about her on Huffington Post , explaining that I despised her not for her gender -- as some of her supporters accused -- but for her hawkishness , her center - left policies , her husband 's crime bill that incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainso many people of color , her support for the Trans - Pacific Partnership , and her inability to get progressive on climate change policy . I 've spent almost every waking hour of every day following this election , reading about Hillary , Donald Trump , both parties ' platforms , and the under - qualified Libertarian and Green Party candidates running . During these months of obsessing over my choice , I 've watched my position slowly shift .
But there were some problems , some unintended consequences . Too many young African - American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses . And it 's just a fact that if you 're a young African - American man and you do the same thing as a young white man , you are more likely to be arrested , charged , convicted , and incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetain. So we 've got to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system . We can not just say law and order .
" I grew up in the era of mass incarceration , " Garza said . " In particular , we had being demonized and being seen as a drain on government resources , and , you know , former Secretary Clinton and her husband , former President Clinton , really removed this very robust agenda around criminalizing Black people and they did that in a couple of different ways . " " One was by passing and championing this landmark three strikes legislation , which actually incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainmore Black people than any other time in history , right , " she continued . " They also did something which was overwhelming , which was to dismantle states supports for families to be able to thrive or just at the very least survive , right . And they did that under this notion , right , that people were taking advantage of the system and that people are not redeemable . "
In the video , many found Clinton ’s tone to be dismissive , especially in contrast to how Sanders handled a similar situation in Seattle in which two Black Lives Matter protesters stormed the stage . Some justify Clinton ’s response believing the interruption to be rude and an inappropriate time . But that is precisely the privileged stances that have allowed black people to continue to be murdered and disproportionately incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainat the hands of an unjust government and judicial system that does not value their lives . That is a bigger inconvenience . What are we to make of this video , especially when just days earlier Clinton gave a speech in Harlem where she said :
Fought for children and families for 40 years and counting . After law school , Hillary could have gone to work for a prestigious law firm , but took a job at the Children ’s Defense Fund . She worked with teenagers incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainin adult prisons in South Carolina and families with disabled children in Massachusetts . It sparked a lifelong passion for helping children live up to their potential . Well , not all children :
Prohibitionist drug policies have had serious adverse consequences in the US , too . “ The USA is perhaps the best documented but not the only country with clear racial biases in policing , arrests , and sentencing , ” the commissioners write . “ In the USA in 2014 , African American men were more than five times more likely than white people to be incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainfor drug offences in their lifetime , although there is no significant difference in rates of drug use among these populations . The impact of this bias on communities of people of colour is inter - generational and socially and economically devastating . ” The commission cites examples of countries and US states that have moved down the decriminalisation road .
You cherrypick what he says and you want to talk about it for days on end with a breaking news tag on it . I do n’t think that counts as breaking news . ” Trump was widely criticised for his remarks at the debate , with many commentators saying they were evocative of “ tinpot dictators ” and authoritarian regimes where political opponents are arrested and incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetain. Speaking at a rally in Pueblo , Colorado , Clinton assailed Trump ’s “ scorched earth ” strategy as a sign of desperation from a campaign in turmoil . “ That just shows how desperate they are , ” Clinton said on Wednesday .
Among the boldfaced names in his client portfolio were Angolan guerilla army leader Jonas Savimbi , and former presidents Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines and Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire . But those jobs would pale — both in terms of financial reward and degree of difficulty — to the gig to which Akhmetov referred Manafort and his team : returning Yanukovych to power . A former trucking official who had been convicted and incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainas a teenager for serious crimes , Yanukovych had become a popular symbol of the corruption that plagues Ukraine after his team tried to rig the 2004 presidential election . A series of protests , which became known as the Orange Revolution , forced a re - vote , which Yanukovych lost . While Manafort initially protested that Yanukovych was too deeply flawed to revive , Akhmetov eventually prevailed upon his American consultant to help Yanukovych and his political party , the Party of Regions , try to make a comeback in the 2006 parliamentary elections .
What the president probably did n’t realize is that like de Tocqueville , D’Souza is a student of his surroundings and treats every experience like it ’s going to be on the final exam . “ I learned a lot in jail , ” he said , “ and I came out a much more hardened and realistic conservative . I used to see the 2.2 million incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainas simply criminals who had broken the law , but after meeting these people I realized the gangs inside are very much like the gangs in the White House . ” For example , in the film we see how D’Souza learned that most major crimes follow the procedure of plan , pitch , take , and deny . You plan to fake out insurance companies . You create a fake corporation .
Though they both acknowledged deep disagreements on these issues , the two leaders found common ground on the topic of the economic embargo on Cuba , which both want lifted . Obama went so far as to declare that " the embargo 's going to end , " though he could n't say when . In an extraordinary sign of the shifting attitudes , Castro was willing to answer one question on why his regime was keeping Cubans incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainfor expressing anti - government views . But his response only underscored the schisms between himself and Obama . " Did you ask if we had political prisoners ?
It ’s not clear yet how many current and future inmates would be affected by these bills — an analysis by the U.S. Sentencing Commission of the Sensenbrenner - Scott bill is expected in August or September — but let ’s consider some extreme scenarios and the effect they ’d have on the American prison population . According to the Bureau of Prisons , there are 207,847 people incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainin federal prisons . Roughly half ( 48.6 percent ) are in for drug offenses . According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics , there are 1,358,875 people in state prisons .
The SEC returned to court demanding that he disclose all of his accounts , including “ any entity associated with Mossack Fonseca Group . ” The securities agency filed copies of emails between Kapur and a Mossack Fonseca affiliate , Mossfon Trust , in which he discussed buying a “ vintage shelf corporation . ” Mossfon offered Kapur companies for as little as $ 5,750 . In July , U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer jailed Kapur for contempt until he pays the judgment . Engelmayer said the SEC “ has developed compelling evidence that Kapur possesses and has access to significant assets ” and ordered that he be “ incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainuntil he purges the contempt . ” Kapur is locked up in a federal detention center in Brooklyn . According to court records , Kapur testified that he did not purchase the companies for himself , but did so on behalf of ThinkStrategy clients so “ they could avoid Know Your Customer requirements , ” governing information financial firms must collect about their customers . Kapur ’s lawyer did not respond to emails or phone messages on Tuesday .
Thus , Debbie Wasserman Shultz , Hillary Clinton , Bill Clinton and every other top Democratic leader can act with impunity , and expect The Daily Banters and Beasts of the world to defend them , regardless of whether or not Democrats morph into moderate Republicans . I 'm never voting for anyone who believed Bush 's intelligence on Iraq , because Bernie Sanders used the same intelligence and voted against the invasion . I 'm never voting for a political dynasty that incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainmore Americans than any presidency in history , because unlike Hillary Clinton , Bernie Sanders does n't take prison lobbyist donations and addressed prison reform long before 2016 . I 'm never voting for a person I consider a liar . If you consider me a liar for my support of Warren , Webb and O'Malley before Sanders , or even an article on a Republican I wrote simply to protest perpetual wars , then do n't vote for me when I run for president .
The election of Hillary Clinton would prove that Americans – albeit uninformed and misguided by a corrupt press – have opted to submit to what Marcus Tullius Cicero called “ tyranny by popular support . ” But we fear greatly for such a future not only because of the realities of tyranny – whether by force or popular support – but because we recognize the true national identity still runs strong enough within the fiber of American society that millions will not stand idle in the face of it . “ This formidable censor of the public functionaries , by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion , produces reform peaceably , which must otherwise be done by revolution , ” Jefferson wrote to Adamantios Coray in 1823 . We now know that Hillary Clinton mishandled classified information in a manner that would result in any other American being prosecuted , potentially incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainand certainly prohibited from ever obtaining federal employment ever again , let alone hold a security clearance . We now know that Hillary Clinton repeatedly lied to the American public , and repeatedly revised those lies with evolving lies regarding her grossly incompetent and reckless use of a private email server to conduct official State Department business . We now know that Hillary Clinton designed and pushed a secret war in Libya that was not authorized by Congress .
Syringe restrictions legislated during the 1980s war on drugs contributed to Danny Wilson 's HIV infection . ( CBC ) The authors found the biggest factor driving higher rates of infection among drug users was that they were excessively incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainand excluded from HIV and hepatitis C prevention , treatment and harm - reduction programs . These include needle and syringe exchanges , safe injection facilities and opioid substitution therapies such as methadone . Russia is the opposite extreme , the authors said .
Sanders America will not have more people in jail than any other country when he is president . 9:34 : Sanders says issues concerning the broken criminal justice system can not be swept under the rug . He says an African - American baby being born today has a one - in - four chance of being incarceratedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetain. He says blacks and whites smoke marijuana equally but four times as many blacks get arrested for it . He says sentencing for blacks re : traffic offenses is four times as high for blacks than whites .