Edward Carver is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
The ACLU on Friday issued a memo warning that a second term for former President Donald Trump would 'exacerbate inequalities' in the criminal justice system and laying out plans to push against a potential Republican administration's efforts to do so. The 14-page memo argues that Trump's agenda would be to expand incarceration, abusive policing practices, and the use of the death penalty, all of which the ACLU , a nonprofit human rights organization, opposes.
However, a second Trump administration would set the 'tone' and create a 'ripple effect across the country,' threatening a 'new era of mass incarceration,' the ACLU said. The memo warns that Trump would do so in the following ways: Escalating punitive, draconian sentencing and incarceration approaches; Incentivizing dramatically worse conditions for the nation's 1.
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