I don’t think there’s any doubt now that the GOP is the Party of Punishment. Republicans relish their ongoing, self-mandate, to publicly humiliate and destroy anyone who doesn’t go along with their party plan. The latest victim of their wrath is University of Wisconsin Professor William Cronon.
“The Economist” just published a fantastic analysis of the American justice system in a piece called — “Rough Justice in America: Too Many Laws, Too Many Prisoners” — and when one in 99 citizens is doing time, we need to re-examine the social fabric of our nation and start asking what went wrong with crime deterrence and inmate rehabilitation. We write this Carceral Nation blog to help unskew injustice in a dangerous world.
I love it when people have no idea about the definition of “Karma” — but still freely use it anyway in a sentence as an enforcer against their hoped-for punishment of someone else’s bad behavior. They think Karma is something immediate and predictable and tangible and just around the corner waiting to pay you back. If you make an immoral decision, God will wait get you in death — but Karma will punish you next Wednesday!
What is the best way to kill a man with the least effort on our part and that would give him the quickest, most painless, end — while saving us the most money?
America is a country that loves to punish. We punish foreign nations. We discriminately punish our own. This week, The Economist rightfully flays the ongoing — and failed — notion of Wild West American Justice where the punishment rarely fits the crime.
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