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Mail sent to you is your property. Intercepting it in transit is highway robbery.
by kashkhan 4y ago
Mail sent to you is your property. Intercepting it in transit is highway robbery.
- calvinmorrison 4y agoPrisoners are slaves who do not have the same rights as other Americans
- AaronM 4y agoNot all incarcerated people are prisoners though. Plenty of folks in jail are simply too poor to afford bonding out before their trial date.
- calvinmorrison 4y agoWell we can mince words, but functionally you are deprived of your freedom while being presumed innocent if the government decides it so.
- mcherm 4y agoPerhaps you have a different term besides "prisoner" to describe someone who is imprisoned before their trial rather than after. But the parent comment is correct: whatever you call them, these people are not afforded all of the rights that the rest of us have.
- c0m 4y agoAre you confusing the term 'prisoner' with 'criminal'? Prisoner is used to refer to people waiting for trial frequently, and dictionaries seem to support this definition.
- voakbasda 4y agoThis is the truth. The legal exception is literally carved out in the 13th amendment; the government reserved the right to make slaves of its prisoners.
- the_svd_doctor 4y agoLots of people in prison/jail are not convicted though, but merely awaiting trial. The 13th amendment only applies to "duly convicted" people.
- kashkhan 4y agoyep prison is an abomination. Needs to be defunded and outlawed.
- laserdancepony 4y agoAnd then we do what to uphold the rule of law?
- kashkhan 4y agowhat do you do now for the vast majority of crimes that go unpunished? https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/01/most-violent-and-property-crimes-in-the-u-s-go-unsolved/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/01/most-violen... majority of crimes are not even reported to police and of those reported much less than half get solved
- 5555624 4y agoI knew an inmate in Pennsylvania, the prison system there stopped accepting physical mail if you wanted to write an inmate, you sent a letter to a company in Florida. While their name was also in the address, the letter was to "Smart communications," in a state where you knew they were not located. That's probably the excuse they'd use -- the actual mail is not being sent to the addressee. (In Florida, the letter was opened and scanned, then transmitted to the prison, where it was printed and delivered. It was always unclear whether it was read and reviewed in Florida or Pennsylvania or both.)
- MagicMoonlight 4y agoThey lace their mail with spice as a way to smuggle it into prison. You have to live under certain restrictions when you are a prisoner because of the consequences of your actions.