We should stress this fundamental right, denied by the prison-industrial complex, in our election work re 2020!
'"Healthy psychological brain development is not a privilege for the elite, but is a right for all," says B.J. Casey, a Professor of Psychology at Yale University. She believes that this right is often infringed upon by the U.S. legal system because the U.S. jails more adolescents than any other country, yet doesn't provide opportunities for them to build the skills necessary to become a person who functions well in society."None of this addresses the white elephant in the room. When we talk about young people who come into contact with the law or who are transferred to adult courts, a disproportionate number of them are youths of color," she says'.-- SD
In other words, US capitalist society first destroys the brains of these young people and later leaves them either ruined for life or reimprisons them for committing crimes that are the result of this very brain destruction. This is the result of the officially condoned and reinforced institutional racism by which our present capitalist based socio-economic system functions and groups masquerading as patriotic “Christian” Americans (AKA: supporters of MAGA) are used by the 1% ruling class to bolster their power and and control over the 99% of the population. In the upcoming 2020 elections we have a chance to begin to free ourselves of this monstrous system of human degradation by ridding ourselves of its most cancerous and putrid elements (Republicans and conservative Democrats and their corporate masters) we must mobilize the voters to turn out in primaries and the general election to do so.
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