Now why would the Times want to de-emphasize this?
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Too Many Prisoners Equals a Riot?
In California one of our local prisons had a huge riot a few days ago. There has been much hand wringing over what caused this and it was assumed that the cause was overcrowding. The Times today cited a 2007 report citing that warned of over-crowding caused riots. There's only one problem with this. The riots had absolutely nothing to do with over-crowding but were actually caused by racial tensions among Black and Latino prisoners.
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Because it wouldn't increase their sales to the Black and Latino readers. Better to find a common ground like, oh say, blaming the government for EVERYTHING!
ReplyDeleteKind of like those churches who preach whatever the congregation wants to hear rather then what is right....