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I don't think this is entirely true. Where I live they don't move you to a prison if your sentence is less than a year. It is kind of irrelevant though, don't
by c22 8y ago
I don't think this is entirely true. Where I live they don't move you to a prison if your sentence is less than a year.
It is kind of irrelevant though, don't you think? People who are guilty of crimes don't deserve to be murdered either.
- kevingadd 8y agoIt's an issue of magnitude that a lot of Law And Order types are happy to set aside for their purposes. Some people really are okay with convicted felons getting "what's coming to them" in prison, and you can see it in public discourse with jokes about prison shanking and prison sexual assault. (Personally, I feel like it should go without saying that none of that stuff is okay.) If you make it clear to the average voter that the people getting hurt and killed by cops and other prisoners in jail are the elderly, single moms, etc - often held for a few days awaiting an initial trial, or even without charges - it becomes a lot more obvious to them that something is not right here. People are much more willing to blur the lines and shrug if it's "bad guys", and we talk a lot about "bad guys" in modern american politics.
- mnm1 8y agoI agree that no one should be tortured and murdered, but my point still stands because Americans are so apathetic to the suffering of convicts (and suffering of anyone in general). Most probably assume people in jail deserve to be there. There may be some convicted people in jail, true, but then it becomes a multi-purpose facility that's both jail and prison.