The Drug Policy Alliance is filing an amicus brief, petitioning the Louisiana Supreme Court to stop this madness. [The are] urging the Louisiana Supreme Court to review the egregious prison sentence of Bernard Noble, a 48-year old man who was sentenced to 13.3 years of hard labor in prison without the opportunity for parole for possessing…
Two joints, 13 years
The hidden engine behind the state’s well-oiled prison machine is cold, hard cash. A majority of Louisiana inmates are housed in for-profit facilities, which must be supplied with a constant influx of human beings or a $182 million industry will go bankrupt.http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/05/louisiana_is_the_worlds_prison.html
I think vicious and inhuman are the terms to be used rather than merely obscene.
Human lives sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed. Don’t protest government, picket ALEC meetings.
Hard labor – sounds a lot like slavery to me.