Editorial Cartoon: The Minor Offense Jail Problem

            This editorial cartoon suggests many meanings. There has been much talk lately in regards to the astonishing statistics of prisoners with minor offenses. Many political candidates discuss this topic on debates and hearings speaking on what their take is on the frowned on subject matter.

            President Obama recently conveyed his disapproval for the long-term convictions of minor drug offenses. He expressed his concerns on the HBO hit Vice. I thought it was an interesting piece with varied data to support these incoherent offenses. I think this is a topic that is long overdue as it expresses the modern day slavery effect on the black and brown people of this country. Today’s prison society is a corporate machine spending billions a year on inmates. It could be so easy to say stop and spend the money on more useful projects like feeding and housing the homeless or upgrading our infrastructure and public school system.

            America’s prison system is an industrialized corporate machine that has the court system under its tyranny.   Some countries 3 times larger than the U.S have less prison numbers does this seem uncanny? Money controls this country and those who can make corporations more of it rule.