{"id":551002,"date":"2021-06-03T14:05:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T18:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=551002"},"modified":"2021-06-03T14:05:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T18:05:53","slug":"ocasio-cortez-says-building-less-jails-will-reduce-the-number-of-people-who-go-to-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ocasio-cortez-says-building-less-jails-will-reduce-the-number-of-people-who-go-to-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez Says Building Less Jails Will Reduce The Number Of People Who Go To Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Focasio-cortez-says-building-less-jails-will-reduce-the-number-of-people-who-go-to-jail%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=551002&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot_Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez_Twitter_@therecount-e1622740614398.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that the way to reduce the number of people going to jail is to stop building more of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not acceptable for us to use jails as garbage bins for human beings. We need to treat people and see them as human,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/28\/joe-biden-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-squad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> said at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we want to reduce the number of people in our jails, the answer is to stop building more of them \u2026 It\u2019s to support communities, not throw them away,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/25\/hawley-resolution-progressive-squad-for-antisemitic-anti-israel-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur complete gutting of support in our mental health system both in this city and across the country is absolutely correlated with both homelessness and incidents of violent crime,\u201d she added. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/02\/ocasio-cortez-roasted-social-media-grandma-puerto-rico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Ocasio-Cortez \u2014 The Socialist Who Owns A Tesla \u2014 Gets Roasted On Social Media For Not Helping Grandma In Puerto Rico)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.0909090909091\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AOC<\/a>: \u201cIf we want to reduce the number of people in our jails, the answer is to stop building more of them \u2026 It\u2019s to support communities, not throw them away.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vj4BnNKEVV\">pic.twitter.com\/vj4BnNKEVV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1400487422274719747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez was joined by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer at the press conference in the Bronx. New York Democratic Rep.\u00a0 Jamaal Bowman. The press conference was on violence prevention.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/04\/ocasio-cortez-wont-answer-primary-challenge-schumer-new-york-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Ocasio-Cortez Won\u2019t Rule Out Primary Challenge Against Schumer)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/04\/ocasio-cortez-wont-answer-primary-challenge-schumer-new-york-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">would not rule out<\/a> a primary challenge against Schumer in a January interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that the way to reduce the number of people going to jail is to stop building more of them.\u201cIt is not acceptable &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279088,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot_Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez_Twitter_@therecount-e1622740614398.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Ocasio-Cortez Says Building Less Jails Will Reduce The Number Of People Who Go To Jail","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot_Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez_Twitter_@therecount-e1622740614398.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Ocasio-Cortez Says Building Less Jails Will Reduce The Number Of People Who Go To Jail","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}