In Luisianna the "good" prisoners belong in prison as servants or rather as slaves

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The remarks, by Sheriff Steve Prator of Caddo Parish, came near the end of a lengthy news briefing on Oct. 5, in which he objected to a set of laws that will allow for the release of a number of nonviolent prisoners on Nov. 1. The sheriff spent the majority of the news conference talking about the danger of letting out repeat offenders who belonged in prison. He referred to those prisoners as “the bad ones,” and compared them with state prisoners held in parish jails and sentenced to hard labor, whom he deemed “good.” “In addition to the bad ones — and I call these bad — in addition to them, they’re releasing some good ones that we use every day to wash cars, to change oil in our cars, to cook in the kitchen, to do all that, where we save money,” Sheriff Prator said. “Well, they’re going to let them out.” ... Caddo Parish has a long history of racial discrimination in its criminal justice system and beyond. More people have been sentenced to death per capita there than in any other county in the United States; close to 80 percent of those executed have been black. Shreveport was once a confederate capital, and a 2015 study found that the parish was a hotbed of lynchings between 1877 and 1950. Jim Craig is the New Orleans co-director of the MacArthur Justice Center, which has filed a lawsuit against the Caddo district attorney for its practice of striking blacks from juries without explanation. Mr. Craig pointed out that between 1988 and 2008, the Caddo district attorney had sought death as punishment in 84 percent of black-on-white homicides and only 24 percent of other homicides. “Our observation is this: Those statistics are not accidental,” Mr. Craig said.

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Remember: if you behave like a violent vindictive thug, especially while hiding behind the veneer of "law and justice", you only help to perpetuate that kind of mentality. The entrenched racism only helps compound the by making minorities less likely to respect the law and more likely to develop contempt if not outright hatred towards law enforcement.

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