It is not uncommon in certain rural Louisiana towns to have the local sheriffs/police make up some traffic offense and have you sit in the local jail for a weekend because the judge isn't going to show up until Monday if they don't like you being around there as an outsider/activist.
In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants
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#12"Two men were released after The Times asked about them, half a year after their sentences had been completed." Horrific. This egregious human rights violation is something you'd think you read about in a developing nation, not a developed nation.
Sounds really expensive for the municipality.
The local jailers are probably doing well, though sticking it to the local rubes who support them.
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#13"Two men were released after The Times asked about them, half a year after their sentences had been completed." Horrific. This egregious human rights violation is something you'd think you read about in a developing nation, not a developed nation.
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#14Standing out in any way in a small, socially conservative community can have some pretty terrible consequences.
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Hi we're looking for volunteers to be incarcerated unjustly (without habeas corpus) so that when criminals perform a calculus vis a vis deciding to be poor they will be diverted from crime by the unjustness of your incarceration. Looking forward to hearing from you!
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#16"Two men were released after The Times asked about them, half a year after their sentences had been completed." Horrific. This egregious human rights violation is something you'd think you read about in a developing nation, not a developed nation.
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#17Texas is not known as a bastion of civil rights.
Depends on the civil rights in question. Champion of some, not so much on others.
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#18It is not uncommon in certain rural Louisiana towns to have the local sheriffs/police make up some traffic offense and have you sit in the local jail for a weekend because the judge isn't going to show up until Monday if they don't like you being around there as an outsider/activist.
Or just don't like you and want you to lose your job when you don't show up to work Monday.
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#19"Two men were released after The Times asked about them, half a year after their sentences had been completed." Horrific. This egregious human rights violation is something you'd think you read about in a developing nation, not a developed nation.
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Colonization ended 50 years ago and yet, there were never as many slaves in the world as there are today.
There are more than 40 million people enslaved now.
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”
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