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Crime and Punishment

Dave Somerset

In New Zealand, the Maori
practice restorative justice.
Their guiding principles are
restitution and rehabilitation.
Offenders return back home to their culture
with community support and a welcome song.
Don’t expect a welcome song from us.
We don’t really want you back,.
if you’re an offender,
Just expect to be thrown away despite all the cost.
A cell in New Jersey State Prison costs $53,000 per year,
while a seat at Princeton University is only $47,000.
Our justice, just vengeance disguised as good intentions.
Here, offenders can’t vote, hold a job, support their families or themselves.
There only available employment we left them is crime.
Crime and punishment for some is crime and rewards for others.
The poor are punished continually by a criminal system run by those most criminal.
Oddly corrupt, yet inept correction system empires,
without any corrections, except in corporate directions.
The warehouse for millions of the miserable victims of the war:
on drugs, on crime, on poverty and on each other.
All wars by design and for profits all the time.
The joke is the criminal justice system;
the system is criminal, with no justice or liberty for all.

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