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And? My one example is not an exhaustive list, summary, or assessment. This still does not equate to a ban on books as you have represented.

Supreme court has upheld that some things can be banned if they are in the interest of maintaining the security of a detention facility. Inmates shouldn't be receiving books on how…

They didn't ban books. They banned books from random sources. Established retailers and other approved sources are not banned and there is a process for becoming approved. If you s…

It is in fact about rehabilitation which is why the criminal justice system and prisons have rehabilitation and education programs. "Corrections in America" is the name of the book…

Where did I claim to be an expert? I'm referring to the actions taken by the experts who oversee the prison system mentioned in the article.

Corrections theory has evolved a lot since 1950s and it hasn't been about applying punishment for a long time. If someone is locked up 23 hours a day, it is because it was determin…

Those questions you ask were already decided in a court of law by an elected or appointed judge and a jury of the subject's peers. And if there is a better way to deal with contrab…

Any time there is an article on HN about prisons, most of the comments are kooky conspiracy theories. The concept that bad people intent on committing crime exist seems to be incom…

It should be obvious any romantic notions of things like helping the environment or saving lives are just costumes for the reality of most modern business motivations: making money…

Ok, going to say you reminded me and I agree now. I was thinking solely of WP core, but if you are to include all of the official plugins and Woocommerce, then yeah I can see the i…

Wordpress has taken great strides to comply with the latest PHP standards so I'd say that's not quite fair to include it here.

Say what you want about PHP, but here we are decades later. I'm still using it, it still works, and it's still getting updated and improved.

Politifact and factcheck get plenty of things wrong so I wouldn't say "heck even" to that. These websites are a joke.