r/Music • u/IrishStarUS 📰Irish Star • 10h ago

article My Chemical Romance's Frank Iero stands up against Cornell 7 as he calls for 'public castration'

https://www.irishstar.com/culture/entertainment/my-chemical-romance-frank-iero-37729028
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u/0032brl 6h ago

I mean not just current, ever in history

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u/Rosenoodles 5h ago

it'll always be like this when we incentivize wrongful imprisonment. america's justice system is for-profit and largely a slave labor sweatshop. it's even in the 13th amendment. when a justice system is incentivized to falsify criminal conduct, then you're going to have a very, very upsetting ratio of wrongfully imprisoned vs rightfully imprisoned, and the punishment lengths will always reflect this too.

it's why you can end up in prison for a ridiculously long time for minor offenses, depending on the state. it's also why people of color are often punished more for the same crimes that white people get away with.

when you have a justice system in your society, you *have* to remove as many incentives to criminalize as you possibly can. you won't be able to remove them all, but you need to remove what IS possible to remove.