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When you have a building designed for 500 people, and hold 750 every day, you do what you have to to avoid large-scale violence. I'm not saying I agree with it,
by Loughla 11y ago
When you have a building designed for 500 people, and hold 750 every day, you do what you have to to avoid large-scale violence. I'm not saying I agree with it, I'm just saying why it exists.
Prison overcrowding is a thing across the US.
- minthd 11y agoEven with such limitations to prevent violence, it's extremely easy and cheap, today, in the digital age, to enable communication between prisoners.
- ianstallings 11y agoYes that's exactly why, and I do have empathy for the situation. That's why I mentioned the control part. I don't mean that they would rather be oppressive than help. What I really mean is they simply don't have time or money to worry about what happens to these people, because just maintaining control is hard enough. Just keeping the prisoners safe, while keeping yourself, and society safe also, is a very tough job.