Reconstruction Party Manifesto: on Crime


End the death penalty; it’s based on race & class

Reconstruction Party Manifesto point #7. We Want to End Prisons for Profit Now!
We want an end to privatization of prisons and prison health services. We want an end to prison labor schemes that are little more than corporate subsidies that provide little training or rehabilitation for inmates. We want reconciliation, transformation, preparation, rather than incarceration based on retribution and vengeance. We do not want race and class to serve as the primary determinants of punishment. And we want an end to the death penalty.

We believe that the prison-industrial, criminal injustice complex of today still operates in many respects as a vestige of slavery. And just as punishment was meted out disparately fo Blacks and whites during slavery, these conditions persist today. Disparities permeate the system from the laws enacted, to those who enact the laws, to those who enforce and interpret them.

Source: Manifesto for a Reconstruction Party Jan 26, 2008

End racial disparities in sentencing

Reconstruction Party Manifesto point #5. We Want to Stop the War at Home Now!
We believe that disparities in sentencing and in the criminal justice system as a whole can be overcome with political will to change the policies
Source: Manifesto for a Reconstruction Party Jan 26, 2008

  • The above quotations are from Draft Manifesto for a Reconstruction Party
    Drafted by Reconstruction Party activists, including Rep. Cynthia McKinney, in New Orleans, Jan. 26, 2008.
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Roseanne Barr(PF-HI)
Robert Steele(L-NY)
Dr.Jill Stein(G,MA)
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