http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/27795-the-fallacy-of-right-wing-appeals-to-race-in-criminal-justice-reform
"At rock bottom, criminal justice reform for the Right is about protecting corporate profits from pesky Federal governmental regulations that seek to protect consumers, workers, investors, the environment and the general public from economic and physical harm. This position, for example, rejects the criminal charges in a case like BP's Deepwater Horizon Gulf disaster, suggesting that the market or Louisiana were best equipped to handle this. It is evidenced too in the early debates over "food police" which rejects food labeling or criminal penalties for poisoning small children with E-coli laden hamburgers. As illustrated by Radley Balko in his Cato Institute days, this position suggests that we all live in a world of personal consumer "choices" where we can all "equally" decide whether or not to eat junk food or GMOs or get in our Mercedes and drive out of that food desert. It is a world without structural inequality as an impediment to "choice"; there is nothing but "personal responsibility," a loaded term too often touted in all right-wing criminal justice reform efforts."
