Happy alternatives to US Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars

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 * See also: Holy War on Drugs, Republican-led mass incarceration.


 * List of countries by incarceration rate.
 * Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization.

Refuse to serve as juror in felony cases
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Related: This Is What It Will Take to End Mass Incarceration.

Long sentences are what distinguish American mass incarceration from incarceration in other nations. One way to do your bit in turning this around is to refuse to convict (call someone guilty) in felony cases.

You can refuse to serve as a juror in felony cases. Tell the judge you won't convict. You can do it privately by asking to come up to the bench before jury final selection is made.

Or do it boldly (and educate the jury pool) by holding up your hand while sitting in the jury pool. Then ask your question about whether they want someone as a juror who won't convict. No one can force you to say someone is guilty or not guilty. Jurors alone have this power in a jury trial.

You can still serve in misdemeanor cases.

Germany's kinder and safer prisons
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Finland's open prisons
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