This is more relevant to corporate than election fraud, but it's of a piece -- we need a massive shift into prosecuting, with the prospect of real prison time, what are traditionally considered "white collar" crimes. The way to end a culture of impunity is to end impunity.
This is more relevant to corporate than election fraud, but it's of a piece -- we need a massive shift into prosecuting, with the prospect of real prison time, what are traditionally considered "white collar" crimes. The way to end a culture of impunity is to end impunity.
I'm much more of a supporter of restitution rather than incarceration generally, but let's even out those scales a bit first.
@jonrog1 Part of the problems is that, once someone GETS to prison, it's focused entirely on "just make sure they don't break out/hurt anyone who's not a prisoner"... So white collar criminals get great treatment because, well...they aren't gonna break out, or hit someone...
@jonrog1 Then someone who does POT gets hard treatment because 'drug dealers' are a huge escape risk...apparently.