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This is a feature, not a bug. The prison system is designed to drag you in and keep you in. Just disgusting.
Yep, that's exactly what a private prison system leads to. You can see the system working as intended here. 5 years is... just ridiculous. There's no words for this kind of injustice.
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Yep, that's exactly what a private prison system leads to. You can see the system working as intended here. 5 years is... just ridiculous. There's no words for this kind of injustice.
Private prisons have basically nothing to do with this. They house very little of the prison population (less than 10% IIRC)
This is a feature, not a bug. The prison system is designed to drag you in and keep you in. Just disgusting.
It's only meant to provide the public with a false sense of security. "Another scumbag has been locked up, key's been thrown away, you're all safe once again. Enjoy the rest of your evening."
But it's okay because people are easily forgettable. If you have 100 people on a block, and 1 is taken away unjustly, you still have 99 who can quickly forget about that 1, provided they're distracted with enough beer, books, movies and memes.
Can't you just hear those white Texans: "We'll show her". I don't think any comment on that site sums it up more than that one.
That's a pretty damn racist comment. I'm sure it is not every white Texan, and I am sure it is not only white Texan's but also Texan's of other races. Is the relevant group predominantly white? Yes, probably. That doesn't make it acceptable to paint all white people with that brush. Imagine if I made a similar comment about black people and shootings.
This is a feature, not a bug. The prison system is designed to drag you in and keep you in. Just disgusting.
Yep, that's exactly what a private prison system leads to. You can see the system working as intended here. 5 years is... just ridiculous. There's no words for this kind of injustice.
Edit: I'm utterly amazed that this comment has been downvoted to silence. Disenfranchising felons — i.e., those who have committed extremely serious crimes — is while somewhat controversial a long-standing practice. The woman in question committed voter fraud by voting without being legally permitted to. This raises some questions. Are felons seriously not told they may not vote? Why not? Is five years a reasonable sentence (I don't really think so in this case, but for someone who commits large-scale voter fraud it might be)? Certainly the woman seems hard-done-by. At the end of the day, though, she did commit a crime under the laws of the state, and while the sentence seems harsh some sentence is necessary.
This is a feature, not a bug. The prison system is designed to drag you in and keep you in. Just disgusting.
5 years seems too long though.
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Private prisons have basically nothing to do with this. They house very little of the prison population (less than 10% IIRC)
Private prisons lead to lobbying for harsher convictions to improve the bottom line of those prisons, that is why they often come up.
We learn the rules of math, science, etc, but not our own system?
What a disgusting story. How come the State is so vindictive towards the weak and so powerless against people who starts unjustified wars or brings down the financial system ?