During a press conference on Thursday, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that in order to reduce crime, we should stop building jails.
She said:
“It is not acceptable for us to use jails as garbage bins for human beings. We need to treat people and see them as human. If we want to reduce violent crime, reduce the number of people in our jails, the answer is to stop building more of them. The answer is to make sure we actually build more hospitals, we pay organizers, we get people mental health care. It’s to support communities, not throw them away.”
