[Magdalen] Kelly Gissendaner

[Jay Weigel]

*read* transcripts

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
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