For years it's been common knowledge that Mason abused the power of his office to railroad people in to the prison system. Finally some light is being shed on this, but don't ever think Mason is a rogue here. This is all part of the evils of the Prison Complex that is used as a form of control and slave labor. The stats show that the majority of people being locked up are non-violent drug offenders, so people with the sickness of addiction are being locked up. Question who goes to prison to get medical and psychological help? No one! These people are not being helped and healed by the prison system, but their lives are being forever tainted and destroyed by it. And let's not forget the children of parents who are locked away, what of the horrid psychological toll taken on them. I know some will say "don't do the crime if you can't do the time". That just shows a blinding disconnect from the reality of crime and the conditions that lead people to it. Crime is bred of poverty, the poverty of economic discrepancy and the poverty of the spirit. Fix them and see where the crime rate is then.
But of course there are reasons that won't happen under this system.
-Chris
Bill Mason's office went after hundreds of people with little or no evidence cleveland.com
