In addition to the other guy mentioning private prisons and kickbacks, you have prosecutors with win quotas and you have police who all too frequently see everything in black-and-white in their application of the law. After reading the article it sounds like the former reason.
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They get kick backs from the prisons. It’s really that easy. Everything these people do, they do it for profit. Simple as.
Hold up, let me go check the parents’ race real quick
Edit: ooh, mixed race! Quite possibly the only kind of couple the US “justice” system hates more than black couples!
In addition to the other guy mentioning private prisons and kickbacks, you have prosecutors with win quotas and you have police who all too frequently see everything in black-and-white in their application of the law. After reading the article it sounds like the former reason.