CBC Members Who Favor Mass Incarceration

Who in the Congressional Black Caucus voted for three mandatory minimums? Here’s a list: Reps. Joyce Beatty, Karen Bass, Sanford Bishop, G.K. Butterfield, Andre Carson, Lacy Clay, Emanuel Cleaver, Elijah Cummings, Chaka Fattah, Al Green, Alcee Hastings (introduced H.R.645 - the concentration camp bill - in 2009), Steve Horsford, Robin Kelly, Sheila Jackson Lee, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Greg Meeks, Don Payne, Charlie Rangel, Cedric Richmond, Terri Sewell, Marc Veasey and Frederica Wilson [Hank Johnson, Bobby Rush and Bennie Thompson did not vote, which is the same as voting for mandatory minimums. Silence is consent].

After 30 years of evidence that mandatory sentences drive mass incarceration, it should be obvious that mandatory minimums are bad policy.

http://www.crewof42.com/cbc-2/justice-reform-22-black-caucus-members-vote-yes-to-3-mandatory-minimums/#sthash.OJiKOlal.dpuf

Congressional Black Caucus members who withdrew support from H.R.3717 - The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act. Were they and the congress persons who never co-sponsored H.R.3717 promised private prison stock for the mentally ill in their districts who wind up in prison, usually after avoidable crimes?

Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Rep. Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]
Rep. Veasey, Marc A. [D-TX-33]
Rep. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]

H.R.3717 provides for resumption of Medicaid insurance for inpatient psychiatric treatment; an assistance outpatient treatment pilot program, including food, housing, and mandated psychiatric treatment; and crisis intervention training (CIT) for police and prison officers to avoid overuse of force. Most cases of mentally ill people killed by police are black and/or poor. Over 1.25 million mentally ill people are prisoners.

http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/3717

See "Racist Black Elitist Traitors" at 
http://cochranfirmfraud.blogspot.com/2014/05/racist-black-elitist-traitors.html

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