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The Big House That Wayne LaPierre Built

Original story at Mother Jones• 6 mentions • 4 months ago

 
California prison

It sounded like a throwaway line. Toward the end of a four-hour Senate hearing on gun violence last week, Wayne LaPierre, the National Rifle Association’s executive vice president of over two decades, took a break from extolling the virtues of assault rifles and waded briefly into new territory: criminal justice reform. "We've supported prison building," LaPierre said. Then he hammered California for releasing tens of thousands of nonviolent offenders per a Supreme Court order—what he'd previously termed "the largest prison break in American history."But California's overflowing prisons, which the Supreme Court had deemed "cruel and unusual punishment"

 

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14 Feb
Clara Jeffery @ClaraJeffery
RT @MotherJones: California's overflowing prisons....were partly a product of the @NRA's creation: http://t.co/GCgugo7P
 
08 Feb
Dylan @SustainablDylan
RT @froomkin: Mojo's @timothypmurphy on the NRA's weird history of pushing for prison construction: http://t.co/IG71n1jy
 
08 Feb
Kathe Garbrick @femmekatz
The Big House That Wayne LaPierre Built http://t.co/h8ECxw6V via @motherjones
 
08 Feb
David Corn @DavidCornDC
The big house that Wayne LaPierre built: How the @NRA fueled the largest prison boom in American history. http://t.co/3PBxqi4w
 
08 Feb
Mother Jones @MotherJones
.@NRA spent millions in the '90s pushing the largest prison construction boom ever—& harsh sentencing to keep 'em full: http://t.co/GCgugo7P
 
08 Feb
Mother Jones @MotherJones
RT @timothypmurphy: The big house that Wayne LaPierre built: How the NRA fueled the largest prison boom in history: http://t.co/FS94pbV6