Thread:Crowsoul50/@comment-33229352-20190304041126/@comment-33229352-20191008062945

Mission failed, we’ll get ‘em next time

I got myself pissed off about the American healthcare system and our government in general. specifically how mental health resources are criminally unavailable and people often slip through the cracks with nothing to show for it but a whole lot of debt :)

Hypothetically I should not have to declare bankruptcy to be able to afford to save my life. There’s a rising statistic of people who commit suicide out of inability to pay their debts and that’s straight up not okay

Also?? Fuck our prison system? It’s a capitalism machine and legalized slavery. Do you know how many privately owned prisons there are? Many. Many. The justice system is inherently racist, especially on the line of the War On Drugs. You have Susan owning a dispensary and making bank (which, may I remind you, is still technically illegal in the United States under federal law), while there’s thousands of African-Americans serving YEARS of prison time for infinitesimal possession charges.

Many corporations who own prisons actively pour money into anti-legalization campaigns for marijuana. Their reasoning? If pot’s legal, the inmates in their prisons are sizably reduced, losing them money.

Also, prisons are mostly self-regulated, meaning many of the rules are different from institution to institution and the leadership systems in charge of them are typically corrupt

We also have a disproportionate approach on punishment rather than rehabilitation which I could launch into a whole other thing about but I’m already too heated as is oof

Ahhhhhhh