From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655017 (your GGP) and supposedly originally https://www.bbc.co.uk/blog

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655017 (your GGP) and supposedly originally https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7-30a0-9a0a-3ff76e8bfe58 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7... : > In America this is being used to decide whether to keep them in jail even after they have served their full sentence. That may not be true, but the reason why they assume that is that basch and/or the BBC said that.