[Chickensoup]

I have worked with men who have been arrested for misdemenors like possesion or public drunkeness and who have been repeatedly raped in jail. Horrific. Our jails have turned into torture chambers.

Mind you, I have no problem with capital punishment, I have no problem with imprisoning the guilty, I do have a problem with using prisoners to torture other prisoners or to have prisoners do the work the state needs to do, such as execution. When prisoners kill a person like a mass murderer, that is in my opinion, a failure of our justice system.

Few advocate for the imprisoned. But in this increasingly totalitarian society we are all closer to imprisonment than we can imagine

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Drug sentencing laws put offenders in state prison for possession of amounts of drugs that essentially are for personal use, and these offenders—usually young and not too tough—are the types who are preyed upon in these rapes (and yes, you are right—they are repeated rapes and other daily brutalizations). Way too many guards are incompetent or don't care or worse, are corrupt. Then you have these “for profit” prisons that charge prisoners $2 for a Ramen Noodles soup. I'm all for making people pay for crime too but our state prison systems are cesspools that need to be cleaned up.

[Borax Queen]

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