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How is this not a national debate?

• Retra 11y ago
  We don't have national debates, as far as I can tell. Unless you're referring to things like this forum.
• ghostly_s 11y ago
  Puzzled why your comment was downvoted; it's a prudent question. Unfortunately the standard of public discourse has become so shallow in the U.S. that this type of inhumane atrocity being perpetrated by our government is unlikely to get more than three days in the media spotlight.
• MaxfordAndSons 11y ago
  The implementation details of the American criminal justice system are considered (by mainstream media gatekeepers, as well as politicians) to be much too unsightly, and fraught with difficult philosophical conflicts (i.e. the matter of whether imprisonments primary purpose is to rehabilitate or punish). The closest they'll go is discussing issues at the scale (and emotional distance) of demographics - racial disparities in arrest/incarceration rates, etc.