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beef_is_here t1_ja86du8 wrote

Reply to comment by ramvan in Pennsylvania GOP Senator Pushes State Police To Reconsider Gun Restrictions For Cannabis Consumers by OregonTripleBeam

They were with you until you said “reduce the prison population.”

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ramvan t1_ja8bn4i wrote

People are still getting arrested for pot, as dumb as that is.

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beef_is_here t1_ja8bz50 wrote

Yeah, just as the GOP wants. They don’t want to STOP putting people in jail, they would prefer to put MORE people in jail.

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--Cr1imsoN-- t1_ja99773 wrote

Yeah, the GOP needs their slaves ummm I mean they need their forced labor... wait...that's not right either... ummm

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drxdrg08 t1_ja8p9y2 wrote

> they would prefer to put MORE people in jail

What's the incentive to do that do you think?

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WallStSucksChinaDick t1_ja8skuh wrote

Are you asking why? Because private prisons will not filled themselves up on their own. Follow money. Profit.

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drxdrg08 t1_ja9qrnu wrote

There are no private prisons in this state.

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Dagon_Targaryen t1_ja8ze41 wrote

The for profit prison industry for one but mainly who do you think gets disproportionately arrested and convicted of these crimes….

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drxdrg08 t1_ja9qt70 wrote

There are no private prisons in this state.

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Dagon_Targaryen t1_ja9s9dq wrote

The state owns the prisons but contracts out to private for profit security companies like The GEO Group to run our prisons. Nice try though.

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drxdrg08 t1_ja9uz6h wrote

That's not true. Prison guards are unionized civil service positions.

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Dagon_Targaryen t1_ja9xn6n wrote

My guy I don’t think you are quite grasping the concept that PA has a mixture of state run and contracted facilities.

What’s funny is you can even look through by district and region on the cor.pa.gov site and see which are contract too.

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Odd_Shirt_3556 t1_ja914xb wrote

Do you know where a lot of people get arrested for weed? College and Universities… The reason why is even more bizarre. The Federal Government has a law that says if they don’t charge drug crimes that the school could lose federal funds and aid. Also once you are convicted, you are ineligible for federal aid.

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[deleted] t1_ja8d9me wrote

I don’t think very many people are going to jail for weed these days, unless it’s use was a parole violation or something. Or if they’re dealing, but the easy way to get rid of the street dealers is to legalize it recreationally.

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Black_Fish1 t1_ja8f6rj wrote

Smelling pot still a valid suspicion for searching a car?

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dallasfan1985 t1_ja9vdn7 wrote

Don’t know why this got downvoted. I work in a state prison, and can assure you there’s nobody in there for weed anymore. That is a leftist misconception. As a matter of fact parolees don’t even get brought back for weed/failing a urine test. The people that belong there are there. The woke DAs aren’t prosecuting violent offenses like they should be. I don’t see how much more we could lower the state prison population without becoming NY or California.

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