AOC floats ‘prison abolition’ to end ‘American apartheid'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the U.S. needs to start a “conversation about whether to abolish prisons in the country” to disentangle itself from a history of “American apartheid.”

“Mass incarceration is our American reality. It is a system whose logic evolved from the same lineage as Jim Crow, American apartheid, & slavery,” the New York Democrat said Monday on Twitter. “To end it, we have to change. That means we need to have a real conversation about decarceration & prison abolition in this country.”