TRIGGER WARNING: police brutality, abuse of power, police harassment of a child.

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kemetically-afrolatino:

NYPD Cops handcuff and interrogate Bronx boy, 7, for 10hours over missing $5

“Reyes was handcuffed and verbally, physically and emotionally abused, intimidated, humiliated, embarrassed and defamed,” the documents say. He was then charged with robbery.

“My son was crying, ‘Mommy, it wasn’t me! Mommy, it wasn’t me!’ I never imagined the cops could do that to a child. We’re traumatized,” Wilson Reyes’ distraught mom, Frances Mendez told The Post last night.

“Imagine how I felt seeing my son in handcuffs!’’ she said. “It was horrible. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.”

it’s a racist police state in The Bronx, raising kids to be criminals.

school-to-prison pipeline is in full effect #thenewjimcrow

SEVEN FUCKING YEARS OLD

ACAB doesn’t even come close. 

HE IS A BABY 

HE’S A FUCKING CHILD. The fuck, yo?

WHAT THE FUCK

oh jesus fuck

TRIGGER WARNING: police brutality, abuse of power, police harassment of a child.

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And in Pennsylvania, the governor is preparing to release the names of 40 Philadelphia public schools waiting for closure. At the same time, he is escalating prison construction to accommodate the expected inmate population from today’s children. His calculus is based on income and minority status — meaning that he’s closing schools for poor children but building them prisons.

approachingsignificance:

11 Stunning Facts About America’s Prisons

1. In 2009 there were 7.2 million people in prison and under official supervision like probation — a larger population than the state of Washington
2. Between 1987 and 2007 the national prison population tripled.
3. 4 in 10 prisoners return to state prisons within three years of release.
4. One in 30 men between 20 and 34 is behind bars — and up to one in 13 in one state.
5. One in nine black men between 20 and 34 are behind bars.
6. 734 out of every 100,000 people are behind bars in the U.S. — far and away the highest number in the world.
7. The United States is the world’s largest jailer. Russia and South Africa are the closest, but the rates drop dramatically after that.
8. Part of the bizarre prison black market, a thimbleful of tobacco can fetch up to $50 at a maximum security prison.
9. Typically parole programs cost taxpayers $7.47 per day per parolee, while prisons cost $78.95 per day per inmate nationwide.
10. Some prisoners cost more. It costs New Jersey $253 million every year to house just its death row prisoners — $11 million apiece.
11. Between 1987 and 2007 state prison costs rose by 315 percent to $44.06 billion a year.