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The prison conditions are reprehensible

I quite agree. I just thought it was interesting that both stories just happened to run at the same time. The prison-conditions story has been around for a while, and I’m sure that Alabama is not the only state that has let the conditions in its prisons deteriorate. I’ve seen lots of stories that pretty much say that the inmates are just barely under control by the prison staff.

The other day I was talking to a guy who works in the Illinois prison system. I asked him what he thought of Bernie Sanders’s idea of letting inmates vote. He said what would happen would be a Chicago gang leader would move to Southern Illinois and get elected sheriff.