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Gloria La Riva on Crime
Party for Socialism and Liberation nominee for President
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End racism, police brutality, mass incarceration
Mass incarceration and racist policing are symptomatic of the 400 years of brutal repression meted out to African-descended peoples in the U.S. and the genocide committed against the Native nations. Reparations must be paid to the African
American and Native communities! More than 2.2 million people are behind bars in the largest prison complex in the world. End mass incarceration of oppressed and all working class people. Fully prosecute all acts of police brutality and violence.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website LaRiva2020.org
, Aug 15, 2020
Allow prisoners to unionize to negotiate living conditions
We call for support services for prisoners and prisoners' families to reduce ostracism, maintain family ties, and provide for non-degrading visitation policies. We call for the abolition
of prison labor for profit, forced labor ("chain gangs") and the use of prison labor to perform state services. We call for the right of prisoners to organize unions and cooperative groups to negotiate for better living conditions
Source: Socialist PSL Platform adopted by 2020 presidential hopeful
, Aug 3, 2020
Opposes capital punishment; shut down most prisons
Q: Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes?No.
Q: Do you support programs that provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related training and job-placement assistance when released?
Yes.
Q: Do you support programs that provide prison inmates with substance abuse treatment?
Yes.
Q: Do you support reduced prison sentences for non-violent offenders?
Yes.
Q: Do you support mandatory prison sentences for selling illegal drugs?
No.
La Riva adds, "The U.S. alone has 25% of the world's prison population. Most prisons should be shut down and replaced with community justice programs."
Source: California Congressional 2010 Political Courage Test
, Nov 1, 2010
Eliminate the racist prison-industrial complex
Socialists understand that the components of the US criminal “justice” system--the prisons, the jails and the courts--are integral parts of the capitalist state apparatus. The state serves as a means of ruling-class repression against the working class.
Under capitalism, prisons are concentration camps for the poor and the unemployed. The LaRiva/Puryear PSL Presidential Campaign demands the elimination of the racist criminal “justice” system and the prison-industrial complex.
Source: Party campaign website, www.pslweb.org
, Jan 16, 2008
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