[Magdalen] Kelly Gissendaner

[Jay Weigel]

Not at all. Go to *any* parole hearing, or rest transcripts. White folks
included. Or go read comments about anyone who may have committed a murder
or other serious crime and radically changed his/her life in prison, but is
sentenced to death, or has a life sentence but is up for parole. White
folks like Kelly Gissendaner. Terminally ill white people like Susan Denise
Atkins. Those who do get out were usually really young when they committed
their crimes, like Nathan Leopold or Caril Ann Fugate.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> justice" system is based not on rehabilitation, but *revenge*, and that
>> very few Americans really believe in redemption, no matter how much they
>> might say so in church.
>>
>
> I disagree. The American penal system  is an extension of that old Jim
> Crow canard,, "if you give them Civil Rights, first thing you know they'll
> rape your daughters!"
>
> So much of the criminal justice system seems based on the premise of
> clearing African American men off the streets.
> '
> And that ties into the notion of white cops who live in the suburbs
> keeping "order" among the poor of color.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>