Man who stole $50 to be freed after 36 years in US jail

For all the rhetoric, this is an absurd statement. Yes, the US isn't exactly the epitome of domestic freedoms and human rights, but to claim that China is better than the US is utterly ridiculous. If you really believe China's treatment of the Uyghurs is 'anti-terrorism education' then you are truly naive.

Longer than murderers get in this country

But theyre not wrong lol. Most of the “evidence” of mistreatment of uyghurs tends to be instances of police brutality in Indonesia etc and most of these “camps” are employment centres. It’s literally US propaganda. Also China isn’t a settler state that’s built on genocide or chattel slavery and the super exploitation of its black population. China’s biggest transgression according to the world is being uhhh socialist.

Just look at his skin colour and that should explain everything. Before i clicked on the thread, i knew the person was black. No “omg” coming from me when it comes to racism towards black people, i’ll promise u that

You could probably eat a couple of children over here and still get less time..

Black people in the US are rounded up into prison as though they are chattel slaves for concentration camps.

And yet the US has the nerve to talk about China's anti-terrorism education as though China is committing a genocide of Uyghurs, when in fact Uyghurs enjoy many special minority rights in China.

Employment centres? The BBC documentary that looked into these 're-education camps' showed a disturbing scene where the people seemed brainwashed by Communist Party dogma, beside the fact that the whole thing was choreographed by the state to look as benign as possible. 'Political education' is not something that should be accepted from a state, and to order the mass detentions of tens of thousands of people isn't something you should be glossing over, and that's excluding the allegations of torture and mistreatment. China is a big brother state, built on Mao Zedong killing tens of millions of people (some estimate the figure to be around 75 million). To excuse this is absurd, and to call China 'socialist' no longer holds true. Its biggest transgressions are oppressing its population, executing thousands of people, preventing free elections and democracy and its disregard for human rights and crushing dissent (lets not forget Tiananmen Square). I'm not going to derail this thread, but to claim China has some moral high ground over the US is insane.

He wasn't jailed for 'robbing a bakery' at knife-point alone, it was his third strike and that meant life when he did it:

But theyre not wrong lol. Most of the “evidence” of mistreatment of uyghurs tends to be instances of police brutality in Indonesia etc and most of these “camps” are employment centres. It’s literally US propaganda. Also China isn’t a settler state that’s built on genocide or chattel slavery and the super exploitation of its black population. China’s biggest transgression according to the world is being uhhh socialist.

Every country has a history they are not proud of, every country does things even now that they are not proud of. Each country is equally guilty

As usual the information is out of context, falsely implying the sentence was solely for stealing $50 and independent of his prior offences. Traditional media sensationalism that is very loose on the facts.

It’s an accumulation of previous offences

Imagine basing your legal system around the rules of baseball.

That would be a valid statement if black people weren't 12 times more likely to be incarcerated than white people under the three strikes laws. In 2016, 78.5% of Americans serving life sentences were non-white. The American judiciary is inherently racist, and the ridiculous laws enacted by the Americans almost always disproportionally target minorities.

An Alabama judge has ordered that a man who robbed a bakery of $50.75 be released from his life sentence.

Alvin Kennard, 58, was handed the harsh sentence under strict rules introduced in the 1970s to deter repeat offenders.

The ruling provoked an emotional reaction from friends and family, who have been visiting Kennard throughout his incarceration.

Read more here.

And yet the West is held as the pinnacle of human freedom, as though China is the only one cruel enough to lock prisoners away.

And yet the West is held as the pinnacle of human freedom, as though China is the only one cruel enough to lock prisoners away.

He didn't steal $50. He robbed a store at knife point.

I don't really care if he got $2 or $3,000. The experience is equally traumatic to the victims of the robbery.

It was a Class A felony. He must have committed at fewest one other Class A felony to get this sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The way this is represented is that "the court realised it was daft to keep a person in prison for 36 years for robbing at knife point $50" when his release is actually just based on the law relating to repeat offenders being changed in Alabama, so that there is possibility for parole.

He would have got at fewest 20 years without the three-strikes law. https://parkmanwhite.com/birmingham-criminal-defense/violent-crimes/robbery/