#criminal system

[keyki421]

South Korea’s Criminal System???

Is any one else really annoyed that charges or jail time hasn’t been mention in hardly any of the articles talking about Seungri’s scandal? When a rapper gets caught with weed, the articles reporting on it always mention the possible jail time, but is there no jail time for rape in South Korea? Are men allowed to secretly record females without their knowledge/drug them and walk away from it, with no time? 

Jung Joon Young admitted to a crime, so there should be no reason for the police in South Korea to sit him down and question him. HE ADMITTED IT. He should be in a cell right now. He should be behind bars. I always thought America’s justice system was unfair, but America’s court system has nothing on South Korea. 

This scandal has changed my whole out look on not only kpop but South Korea. South Korea was always on my bucket list for places I wanted to visit, but now my mind is starting to change. South Korea seems to not even care about their own Korean women, so I know there is no way they would care about my African American self. South Korea is tougher on people who use marijuana than they are on men who abuse women. 

I’m sick of seeing articles about these male idols will leaving their groups, having their contract terminated or going into reflection. I want to see articles about the police showing up to arrest them. Plain and simple.

[wedotimetoo]

I don’t think the government ought to be in the business of killing people. It accomplishes nothing. It’s inefficient, costs too much, and we don’t need to be giving the government that much power. I don’t personally think it makes anybody feel any better. We talk about giving closure to the victims. I don’t see how. I’ve never had to go through what they go through, but I wonder about a person that takes comfort in the death of another person. You know, that eases their grief somehow. That doesn’t sound right to me. And I don’t think there’s any real data to back up the idea that people feel better after the murderer’s been put to death. I mean, you go and witness it, what do you get? Just another memory you don’t want.

David Smith, Criminal Defense Attorney, quote from the Netflix Documentary “The Innocent Man”

[spokenforinvaliduser]

social awareness is a superpower in the 2020s

[makingcontact]

70 Million: Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 2

70 Million: Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 2

More than a quarter of the people experiencing homelessness in the U.S. live in California. Nowhere is the unhoused crisis more visible than in the city of Los Angeles, where almost 30,000 people camp out on sidewalks and in parks every night. On today’s episode we continue to follow a community of unhoused people in Echo Park in Los Angeles, that was forcibly evicted by police despite an…

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70 Million: Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 1

70 Million: Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 1

On this Making Contact, we hear a story from our podcast partner 70 Million about a community of unhoused people in Echo Park in Los Angeles and how they were forcibly evicted by police despite hundreds of protestors who showed up to support them. We’ll hear from people on the front lines about how people experiencing homelessness are criminalized for simply trying to survive on the street in…

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[thelevinelowdown]

Abolishing Prisons

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks deep-diving into the world of prison documentaries. In-depth films that allow you to hear the experiences of various prisoners serving jail sentences from a few months all the way up to death row. I will leave some links below to documentaries I have watched recently, but I will let you know that most of these prisons have been based in America and contain…

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[gualavi]

My dad has this magnet on his refrigerator:

It's the 5th regulation of U.S.P. Alcatraz, it reads "You are entitled to food, clothing, shelter and medical attention. Anything else you get is a privilege"

And that got me thinking... You get all of those things for commiting savage crimes, yet people outside of prision are told to work hard to get any of them. People still think it's a wild idea that anyone is entitled to free food, clothes, shelter and medical attention just for existing... No wonder why people keep on commiting crimes...

[ananiujitha]

'Texas 7' death row prisoner claims judge was biased

The federal appeal filed by Randy Halprin, a Jewish man who was sentenced to die under the controversial law of parties, contends that ex-Judge Vickers Cunningham routinely used racial slurs, including the N-word.