{"id":75306,"date":"2013-11-18T05:20:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T05:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/18\/coup-dil-horrifie-sur-la-folie-du-goulag-americaniste\/"},"modified":"2013-11-18T05:20:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T05:20:02","slug":"coup-dil-horrifie-sur-la-folie-du-goulag-americaniste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/18\/coup-dil-horrifie-sur-la-folie-du-goulag-americaniste\/","title":{"rendered":"Coup d’\u0153il horrifi\u00e9 sur la folie du Goulag<\/em> am\u00e9ricaniste"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coup d’il horrifi\u00e9 sur la folie du Goulag<\/em> am\u00e9ricaniste<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

\tIl s’agit, chose exceptionnelle, d’un coup d’il horrifi\u00e9 du service \u00e9ditorial du New York Times<\/em> (NYT) sur le syst\u00e8me p\u00e9nitentiaire US, le Goulag<\/em> am\u00e9ricaniste, ce 17 novembre 2013<\/a>. Condamnations \u00e0 vie, sans possibilit\u00e9 de r\u00e9duction de peine, pour une personne qui voulait vendre de la marijuana pour $10, m\u00eame chose pour une personne qui siphonnait de l’essence dans le r\u00e9servoir d’un camion et ainsi de suite. L’\u00e9dito commence par cette observation remarquable pour la publication-phare de America The Beautiful<\/em> : \u00abSi cela arrivait dans un autre pays, les Am\u00e9ricains seraient horrifi\u00e9s…<\/em>\u00bb Cela n’arrive pas aux autres, mais uniquement aux USA. Un rapport de l’association de d\u00e9fense des droits civiques ACLU d\u00e9taille cet aspect extraordinaire du Goulag<\/em> am\u00e9ricaniste : en 2012, 3 278 prisonniers subissaient ce sort d’une mort lente (\u00abSentenced to a Slow Death<\/em>\u00bb), d’une peine incompressible de condamnation \u00e0 vie pour de tels crimes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLe plus extraordinaire de ces choses extraordinaires est que personne ne s’avance \u00e0 d\u00e9fendre ce r\u00e9gime exorbitant, mais qu’on ne parvient pas \u00e0 trouver un moyen de sortir de cet imbroglio juridique, si l’on essaie seulement. (Cela rejoint les tentatives infructueuses de fermer l’annexe maximale du Goulag<\/em> \u00e0 Guantanamo.) Le co\u00fbt de ce r\u00e9gime insens\u00e9 pour ces 3 278 prisonniers est exorbitant, pr\u00e9cise le NYT toujours attentif \u00e0 l’aspect pratique : $1,78 milliard. Le Congr\u00e8s essaie de trouver une solution. Le Syst\u00e8me veille.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tOn ne peut se d\u00e9partir, une fois de plus, de l’impression d’une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 bloqu\u00e9e d’une fa\u00e7on presque construite, active, par des processus, des dynamiques et des forces que personne ne contr\u00f4le. Le Syst\u00e8me r\u00e8gne, sans possibilit\u00e9 d’appel. Il n’emp\u00eache qu’au d\u00e9part, il y a la complicit\u00e9 humaine dans le chef d’un \u00e9tat esprit r\u00e9pressif pour tout ce qui d\u00e9passe des normes draconiennes de contr\u00f4le du syst\u00e8me g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l’am\u00e9ricanisme. Certes, cette sorte-l\u00e0, l’\u00e9tat d’esprit r\u00e9pressif, a exist\u00e9 partout et toujours, plus ou moins latent, plus ou moins actif, mais il restait soumis au jugement de la l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9 d’un pouvoir r\u00e9galien par d\u00e9finition principiel qui, d’une fa\u00e7on ou d’une autre, peut d\u00e9faire ce qu’il a permis de faire, comme il peut temp\u00e9rer les effets de ce qu’il permet de faire. Ici, l’impression est tr\u00e8s forte d’une absence de freins et m\u00eame simplement de contr\u00f4le \u00e0 certaines tendances de l’esprit dominant et aux actes qui en d\u00e9coulent, et aussi d’une impossibilit\u00e9 \u00e0 la fois psychologique et op\u00e9rationnelle, bureaucratique et l\u00e9gislative, de revenir en arri\u00e8re une fois les mesures mises en place. Il y a une sorte de connivence entre l’acte humain structur\u00e9 conforme aux normes du Syst\u00e8me coup\u00e9 de toute conception principielle et l’acte de l’emprisonnement dans ces normes par le Syst\u00e8me une fois l’acte pos\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abIf this were happening in any other country, Americans would be aghast. A sentence of life in prison, without the possibility of parole, for trying to sell $10 of marijuana to an undercover officer? For sharing LSD at a Grateful Dead concert? For siphoning gas from a truck? The punishment is so extreme, so irrational, so wildly disproportionate to the crime that it defies explanation. And yet this is happening every day in federal and state courts across the United States. Judges, bound by mandatory sentencing laws that they openly denounce, are sending people away for the rest of their lives for committing nonviolent drug and property crimes. In nearly 20 percent of cases, it was the person’s first offense.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbAs of 2012, there were 3,278 prisoners serving sentences of life without parole for such crimes, according to an extensive and astonishing report issued Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union. And that number is conservative. It doesn’t include inmates serving sentences of, say, 350 years for a series of nonviolent drug sales. Nor does it include those in prison for crimes legally classified as violent even though they did not involve actual violence, like failing to report to a halfway house or trying to steal an unoccupied car.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe report relies on data from the federal prison system and nine states. Four out of five prisoners were sentenced for drug crimes like possessing a crack pipe or acting as a go-between in a street drug sale. Most of the rest were sentenced for property crimes like trying to cash a stolen check or shoplifting. In more than 83 percent of the cases, the judge had no choice: federal or state law mandated a sentence of life without parole, usually under a mandatory-minimum or habitual offender statute.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbOver the past four decades, those laws have helped push the American prison population to more than two million people, and to the highest incarceration rate in the world. As in the rest of the penal system, the racial disparity is vast: in the federal courts, blacks are 20 times more likely than whites to be sentenced to life without parole for nonviolent crimes.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe report estimates that the cost of imprisoning just these 3,278 people for life instead of a more proportionate length of time is $1.78 billion. It is difficult to find anyone who defends such sentencing. Even Burl Cain, the longtime warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, which holds the most nonviolent lifers in the country, calls these sentences ridiculous. Everybody forgets what corrections means. It means to correct deviant behavior, Mr. Cain told the A.C.L.U. If this person can go back and be a productive citizen and not commit crimes again, he asked, why spend the money to keep him in prison? I need to keep predators in these big old prisons, not dying old men.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLe NYT conclut par cette observation qui nous apprend, \u00e0 notre tr\u00e8s grande surprise, que les \u00c9tats-Unis d’Am\u00e9rique ne sont toujours pas<\/strong> une nation civilis\u00e9e ; dont acte, apr\u00e8s tout, et essayez encore… \u00abIf the United States is to call itself a civilized nation, it must end this cruel and ineffective practice.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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