'Moments like these tell us it's less a justice system, and more a class enforcement system,' said Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
As reports emerged that prosecutors are planning to seek a sentence of four to 10 months of jail time for actor Felicity Huffman for her role in the college admissions scandal, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed the case as proof that the U.S. justice system serves as more of a"class enforcement system" than anything else.
Moments like these tell us it’s less a justice system, and more a class enforcement system. ⬇️ https://t.co/etlIksWsiy "Let’s be clear. The college admissions scandal is just the TIP of the iceberg," tweeted politician Abdul El-Sayed, who launched an unsuccessful bid in Michigan's 2018 Democratic gubernatorial primary election. "There's admissions, then there's admissions for the wealthy. There's criminal justice, then there's criminal justice for the privileged. There shouldn't be two systems."There's admissions, then there's admissions for the wealthy.
In Michelle Alexander's best-selling 2010 book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindless, the author further argues that mass incarceration exists as one of several"major racialized systems of control" in the U.S., effectively ensuring"the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race."
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