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One look at that cell photo in the article and I think I would bash my head into the wall until I was dead. To think about living in those conditions is unimagi
by nuttinwrong 11y ago
One look at that cell photo in the article and I think I would bash my head into the wall until I was dead. To think about living in those conditions is unimaginable. To do this to another human being, no matter what crime they committed is pure cruelty. I'd like to see the people who voted for these laws spend 10 days in that cell. Absolutely disgusting.
- briandear 11y agoIf more people thought like you, perhaps more people would think twice before raping, murdering and robbing. I have trouble sympathizing with violent criminals.
- ljf 11y agoOK, but what is making the US a more violent place than other comparable countries? http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/10/02/is_the_u_s_more_violent_than_other_countries_what_the_data_shows.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/10/02/is_the_u_s...
- jessaustin 11y agoUSA is a historically-colonized nation with a large diverse population. "Comparable" would be Mexico, Brazil, or Nigeria. Comparing USA to Netherlands is a joke.
- atemerev 11y agoOK then. In Nigeria, incarceration rate per 100,000 people is 30. In Mexico, 196. In Brazil, 193. In the US, 737.
- jessaustin 11y agoI don't disagree with you, but my comment addressed 'ljf's question about violence, directly above it. This myth that USA should exactly resemble a tiny homogeneous European nation has been encouraged by the prison-LEO-judicial-industrial complex in order to argue for ever more draconian punishments: "We're not like Holland yet, so let's lock up 100,000 more minorities!"