#inmate

The fact that SO MANY PEOPLE think ‘don’t do a crime, you won’t go to jail! Simple!’ proves why we need BLM and some serious fucking education on the facts about America’s incarceration problem.

People use this to dehumanize inmates and it’s disgusting.

They act like :

False imprisonment

Over imprisonment

Bias against race, religion, color, wealth, and background

Don’t exist.

If you get accused of a crime and you can’t post bail (usually because of lack of money instead of means to get money) you GO TO JAIL UNTIL YOUR TRIAL. This can be MONTHS. Then you STAY IN JAIL during your trial, which can take YEARS. During this time you have no job, so what happens to your house? Car? Family? And if you were the bread earner?? And after all this they can just say ‘oh, we were wrong. Bye.’ Now what? Your job knows you were arrested. Do you think they CARE you were not convicted? Especially with something like rape? Where is your house and car? State and bank have it. You couldn’t post bail you DEFINITELY can’t pay the money to get them back. Your kids? With family or foster system. Good luck starting your life over. ‘Don’t commit a crime, you won’t go to jail!’ Okay. Hope you like it up there on your privileged high horse.

OR. They can find you GUILY of a crime you didn’t commit because you couldn’t afford a lawyer. But, you know, there are NO innocent people in jail .

‘Oh, just get a loan.’ How are they going to pay it back if they couldn’t even afford the bond in the first place? ‘Oh, they’re not in REAL jail, just with other people waiting on their trials.’ Yeah, black Anthony over here who got arrested for walking while black is now in the same population as white Billy who raped a girl but was ‘just having a bad day, he’s really a very good person’.

Not only that but just because someone committed a crimes does NOT MEAN they are NOT HUMAN FUCKING BEINGS. They are now wards of the state, same as a foster child, and the state should be taking care of them.

Suzy over there was brought in for possession because she has a mental health problem and gets high to try and fight off the demons. She isn’t being given pads, because those are a luxury.

Jeremy over there was a friend of a bank robber. He had no idea where he was driving them that day. He gets abused and the guards don’t care.

Frank had no idea he was carry a gun in his suitcase his friend asked him to carry through the airport. His medical issues aren’t being taken seriously.

Jack killed a stranger for his car. Sure, he did wrong, but he’s been in a room with no window or human contact for years. He’s beyond rehabilitation and can never re-enter society (which is the GOAL of prison).

During the polar vortex, the prisoners could be heard yelling from the streets because they had NO HEAT.

NO ONE IS PROTECTING THEM FROM THE VIRUS AND IT IS JUST A FUCKING PETRI DISH IN THOSE PRISONS.

They get shoved in over crowed rooms, and we look down at live stock farmers for the same thing.

Can we PLEASE open the dialogue about inmates being fucking human? Please??