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Exactly. How many people cared about the plight of people in solitary confinement and suicide watch last week? There are people in prison having a far worse ti
by hugh3 16y ago
Exactly. How many people cared about the plight of people in solitary confinement and suicide watch last week?
There are people in prison having a far worse time than Manning. Come to think of it, if I were in prison I'd much rather be in solitary confinement like Manning than in with the general prison population (where my options would presumably be either to join the Aryan Brotherhood or get beaten up every day).
- philwelch 16y agoIf by "beaten up" you mean "raped", actually. A lot of people have tried solitary confinement for the reasons you bring up, but more than a couple of days of it and most of them decide it's worth taking the risk in the general population. Solitary confinement is a weird experience.
- maxawaytoolong 16y agowhere my options would presumably be either to join the Aryan Brotherhood or get beaten up every day He's in a military prison , not Riker's Island.
- philwelch 16y agoThat's exactly the point. There are 14,000 prisoners at Riker's Island, and many of them live in similar or worse conditions than PFC Manning. How do prisons become HN-worthy content just because someone involved with internet drama just happens to be in the prison?